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Compounding

noun

The act of combining things to form a new whole. Synonyms: combination, combining.

Compound

verb

(past & past part. compounded; pres. part. compounding)

Make more intense, stronger, or more marked. Synonyms: deepen, heighten, intensify. "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her" , "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness" , "This event only deepened my convictions"

Put or add together. Synonym: combine.

Calculate principal and interest.

Create by mixing or combining.

Combine so as to form a whole; mix. Synonym: combine.

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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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