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/kəmpˈaʊndɪŋ/ Listen

noun

compounding n. The act of combining things.

Synonyms: combination, combining.

verb

Compound v. t. (past & past part. compounded; pres. part. compounding)

1.

To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine. "Incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort."

2.

To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite. "We have the power of altering and compounding those images into all the varieties of picture."

3.

To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else. "Only compound me with forgotten dust."

4.

To compose; to constitute. (Obs.) "His pomp and all what state compounds."

5.

To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt. "I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife."

To compound a felony, to accept of a consideration for forbearing to prosecute, such compounding being an indictable offense. See Theftbote.

Compound v. i. To effect a composition; to come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration. "Here's a fellow will help you to-morrow;... compound with him by the year." "They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower." "Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds." "Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... 9. OF COMPOUNDING.—And as the mind frames to itself abstract ideas of qualities or MODES, so does it, by the same precision or mental separation, attain abstract ideas of the more compounded BEINGS which include several coexistent qualities. For example, the mind having observed that Peter, James, and John ...

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... and your name you won't tell, nor where you come from—only that you've been swimming. 'Swimming,' good Lord! You didn't swim from France, I take it." He flicked his whip and fell into a muse. "And I'm a Justice of the Peace, and the Lord knows what I'm compounding with." He mused again. "Tell you what I'll do," he exclaimed; "I'll take you up to Lydia's as I promised. If Whitmore's there, you shan't meet him if you don't want to: and if the house is full, I'll ...

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