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Composing   /kəmpˈoʊzɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Compose  v. t.  (past & past part. composed; pres. part. composing)  
1.
To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. "Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affection."
2.
To form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute. "Their borrowed gold composed The calf in Oreb." "A few useful things... compose their intellectual possessions."
3.
To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture. "Let me compose Something in verse as well as prose." "The genius that composed such works as the "Standard" and "Last Supper"."
4.
To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate. "In a peaceful grave my corpse compose." "How in safety best we may Compose our present evils."
5.
To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet. "Compose thy mind; Nor frauds are here contrived, nor force designed."
6.
(Print.) To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).


Compose  v. i.  To come to terms. (Obs.)


adjective
Composing  adj.  
1.
Tending to compose or soothe.
2.
Pertaining to, or used in, composition.
Composing frame (Print.), a stand for holding cases of type when in use.
Composing rule (Print.), a thin slip of brass or steel, against which the type is arranged in a composing stick, or by the aid of which stickfuls or handfuls or type are lifted; called also setting rule.
Composing stick (Print.), an instrument usually of metal, which the compositor holds in his left hand, and in which he arranges the type in words and lines. It has one open side, and one adjustable end by means of which the length of the lines, and consequently the width of the page or column, may be determined.





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"Composing" Quotes from Famous Books



... admirable allegretto in B flat, of Beethoven's Symphony, not going at first to his liking, he remarked, smilingly, that he knew every one of the gentlemen engaged was capable of performing and even composing a scherzo of his own; but that just now he wanted to hear Beethoven's, which he thought had some merit. It was cheerfully repeated. "Beautiful! charming!" cried Mendelssohn, "but still too loud in two or three instances. Let us take it again, from ...
— International Weekly Miscellany, Vol. 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 • Various
... the annoyance of the two boys, thought proper to follow them to the office of the comptroller, and as that dignitary read out from his books the name of every Henry, and of all the varieties of Ralf and Randolf among the hundred and eighty persons composing the household, he kept on making comments. "Harry Hempseed, clerk to the kitchen; ay, Hempseed will serve his turn one of these days. Walter Randall, groom of the chamber; ah, ha! my lads, if you want a generous uncle who will look after you well, there is your ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge
... Aquinas was his favourite pupil. In 1260, he reluctantly accepted the bishopric of Ratisbon, and in two years after resigned it, and returned to his cell in Cologne, where the remainder of his life was passed in superintending the school, and in composing his voluminous works on divinity and natural science. He died in 1280. The absurd imputation of his having dealt in the magical art is well known; and his biographers take some pains to clear him of it. Scriptores Ordinis ...
— The Divine Comedy • Dante
... the individual is a consequence of the defective precision in the working of the division of labor among the cells. This defect, after a longer or shorter time, causes the death of all the cells composing the body. Only those which quit the body ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 • Various
... that these blocks contained not only pictures but text, one very important block book consisting of text alone. What determined the form of the letters composing this text? ...
— Books Before Typography - Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 • Frederick W. Hamilton


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