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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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"Compounding" Quotes from Famous Books

... Howard and brought one of the bottles of whisky, a little store that they had never touched except in the compounding of the barkstone for the capture of beaver. He gave Albert a good stiff drink of it, after which the boy felt better, well enough, in fact, to help Dick skin the ...

— The Last of the Chiefs - A Story of the Great Sioux War • Joseph Altsheler

... state and policy, but the household terms and idioms were still far beyond him, and dear good Lady Ommaney had never learned more French than enabled her to say 'Combien' when she made a purchase. Or if they had understood one another's tongue, I doubt me if any one could have learned the compounding of a poultice through a third person, ...

— Stray Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge

... excellent, and all are kept in due subjection by the ready arm of discipline. The place is virtually under martial law at all times, and in dealing with the class of humanity which naturally congregates here, this system has special advantages. There is no compounding of felony, no compromising with crime. If the laws are outraged, the offender knows he will be instantly arrested and punished, without any fear of popular sympathy. It is not the severity, so much ...

— Due West - or Round the World in Ten Months • Maturin Murray Ballou

... as a rule to the satisfaction of all parties. Many criminal cases are equally settled out of court, and the offender is punished by agreement of the clan-elders or heads of families, and nothing is said; for compounding a felony is not a crime, but a virtue, in the eyes of the Chinese, who look on all ...

— China and the Chinese • Herbert Allen Giles

... labels, brown with age, the ink inscriptions fading into the dirty surface that surrounded them. The only things in the place which looked tolerably clean were the little brass scales and the white marble tablet for compounding solid medicines. ...

— Sant' Ilario • F. Marion Crawford

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