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noun
Compounder  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines.
2.
One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises. "Compounders in politics."
3.
One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime. "Religious houses made compounders For the horrid actions of their founders."
4.
One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take. (Eng.)
5.
(Eng. Hist.) A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Compounder" Quotes from Famous Books



... compounder or dealer, shall serve or send out any foreign spirits, of a lower strength than that of 1 in 6 under hydrometer proof,[91] nor have in his possession any foreign spirits mixed together, except shrub, cherry or raspberry brandy, of lower strength than ...
— A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons • Fredrick Accum

... extravagant expectation that the precious metals and the noblest gems might be procured from the basest materials. These expectations, too, must have been often excited by the startling results of their daily experiments. The most ignorant compounder of simples could not fail to witness the magical transformations of chemical action; and every new product must have added to the probability that the tempting doublets of gold and silver might be thrown from the dice-box ...
— The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler • David Brewster



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