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Complexed (kŏmplĕkst), a. Complex, complicated. [Obs.] “Complexed significations.” Sir T. Browne.
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Complexedness (kŏmplĕksĕdnĕs), n. The quality or state of being complex or involved; complication.
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The complexedness of these moral ideas.
Locke.
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Complexion (kŏmplĕkshŭn), n. [F. complexion, fr. L. complexio. See , a.] 1. The state of being complex; complexity. [Obs.]
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Though the terms of propositions may be complex, yet . . . it is properly called a simple syllogism, since the complexion does not belong to the syllogistic form of it.
I. Watts.
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2. A combination; a complex. [Archaic]
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This paragraph is . . . a complexion of sophisms.
Coleridge.
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3. The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature. [Obs.]
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If his complexion incline him to melancholy.
Milton.
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It is the complexion of them all to leave the dam.
Shak.
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4. The color or hue of the skin, esp. of the face.
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Tall was her stature, her complexion dark.
Wordsworth.
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Between the pale complexion of true love,
And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain.
Shak.
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5. The general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of the sky; the complexion of the news.
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Complexional (-�l), a. Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion.
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A moral rather than a complexional timidity.
Burke.
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Complexionally, adv. Constitutionally. [R.]
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Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious.
Burke.
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Complexionary (?), a. Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it. Jer. Taylor.
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Complexioned (kŏmplĕkshŭnd), a. Having (such) a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark-complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person.
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A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best-colored clay.
Fuller.
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Complexity (?), n.; pl. Complexities (#). [Cf. F. complexité.] 1. The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
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The objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity.
Burke.
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2. That which is complex; intricacy; complication.
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Many-corridored complexities
Of Arthur's palace.
Tennyson.
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Complexly (?), adv. In a complex manner; not simply.
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Complexness, n. The state of being complex; complexity. A. Smith.
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Complexus (?), n. [L., an embracing.] A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.
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Compliable (?), a. Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant.
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Another compliable mind.
Milton.
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The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accommodated to their passions.
Jortin.
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Compliance (?), n. [See .] 1. The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.
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What compliances will remove dissension?
Swift.
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Ready compliance with the wishes of his people.
Macaulay.
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2. A disposition to yield to others; complaisance.
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A man of few words and of great compliance.
Clarendon.
Syn. -- Concession; submission; consent; obedience; performance; execution; acquiescence; assent.
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Compliancy (?), n. Compliance; disposition to yield to others. Goldsmith.
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Compliant (?), a. Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. “The compliant boughs.” Milton.
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Compliantly, adv. In a compliant manner.
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Complicacy (?), n. A state of being complicate or intricate. Mitford.
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Complicant (?), a. [L. complicans, p. pr.] (Zoöl.) Overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles.
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Complicate (?), a. [L. complicatus, p. p. of complicare to fold together. See .] 1. Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,
How complicate, how wonderful is man!
Young.
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2. (Bot.) Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise.
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Complicate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Complicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Complicating.] To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.
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Nor can his complicated sinews fail.
Young.
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Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action.
Addison.
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When the disease is complicated with other diseases.
Arbuthnot.
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Complicately (?), adv. In a complex manner.
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Complicateness, n. Complexity. Sir M. Hale.
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complicating n. the act or process of making something more complex.
Syn. -- complication.
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Complication (?), n. [L. compliasion: cf. F. complication.] 1. The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.
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A complication of diseases.
Macaulay.
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Through and beyond these dark complications of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times.
Palfrey.
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2. (Med.) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
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Complice (?), n.; pl. Complices (#). [F., fr. L. complex, -plicis, closely connected with one, confederate. See , and cf. .] An accomplice. [Obs.]
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To quell the rebels and their complices.
Shak.
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Complicity (?), n.; pl. Complicities (#). [F. complicité.] The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.
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Complier (?), n. One who complies, yields, or obeys; one of an easy, yielding temper. Swift.
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Compliment (?), n. [F. compliment. It complimento, fr. comlire to compliment, finish, suit, fr. L. complere to fill up. See , and cf. .] An expression, by word or act, of approbation, regard, confidence, civility, or admiration; a flattering speech or attention; a ceremonious greeting; as, to send one's compliments to a friend.
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Tedious waste of time, to sit and hear
So many hollow compliments and lies.
Milton.
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Many a compliment politely penned.
Cowper.
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Coloq. To make one a compliment , to show one respect; to praise one in a flattering way. Locke. -- Coloq. To make one's compliments to , to offer formal courtesies to. -- Coloq. To stand on compliment , to treat with ceremony.
Syn. -- See .
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Compliment (?), v. t. To praise, flatter, or gratify, by expressions of approbation, respect, or congratulation; to make or pay a compliment to.
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Monarchs should their inward soul disguise; . . .
Should compliment their foes and shun their friends.
Prior.
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Syn. -- To praise; flatter; adulate; commend.
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Compliment, v. i. To pass compliments; to use conventional expressions of respect.
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I make the interlocutors, upon occasion, compliment with one another.
Boyle.
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Complimental (?), a. Complimentary. [Obs.]
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Languages . . . grow rich and abundant in complimental phrases, and such froth.
Sir H. Wotton.
-- Complimentally, adv. [Obs.] Boyle. -- Complimentalness, n. [Obs.] Hammond.
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Complimentary (?), a. Expressive of regard or praise; of the nature of, or containing, a compliment; as, a complimentary remark; a complimentary ticket. “Complimentary addresses.” Prescott.
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Complimentative (?), a. Complimentary. [R.] Boswell.
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Complimenter (?), n. One who compliments; one given to complimenting; a flatterer.
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{ Compline, Complin } (?), n. [From OE. complie, OF. complie, F. complies, pl., fr. LL. completa (prop. fem. of L. completus) the religious exercise which completes and closes the service of the day. See .] (Eccl.) The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset.
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The custom of godly man been to shut up the evening with a compline of prayer at nine of the night.
Hammond.
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Complot (?), n. [F. complot, prob. for comploit, fr.L. complicitum, prop. p. p. of complicare, but equiv. to complicatio complication, entangling. See , and cf. .] A plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy.
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I know their complot is to have my life.
Shak.
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Complot (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Complotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Complotting.] [Cf. F. comploter, fr. complot.] To plot or plan together; to conspire; to join in a secret design.
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We find them complotting together, and contriving a new scene of miseries to the Trojans.
Pope.
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Complotment (?), n. A plotting together. [R.]
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Complotter (?), n. One joined in a plot. Dryden.
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Complutensian (?), a. Of or pertaining to Complutum (now Alcala de Henares) a city near Madrid; as, the Complutensian Bible.
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Compluvium (?), n. [L.] (Arch.) A space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.
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Comply (kŏmplī), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Complied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Complying.] [Perh. formed fr. compliment, influenced by ply, pliant, which are of different origin: cf. It. complire to compliment, finish, suit. See , .] 1. To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with.
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Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply,
Scandalous or forbidden in our law.
Milton.
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They did servilely comply with the people in worshiping God by sensible images.
Tillotson.
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He that complies against his will
Is of his own opinion still.
Hudibras.
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2. To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments. [Obs.] Shak.
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Comply, v. t. [See , v. i.] 1. To fulfill; to accomplish. [Obs.] Chapman.
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2. [Cf. L. complicare to fold up. See .] To infold; to embrace. [Obs.]
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Seemed to comply,
Cloudlike, the daintie deitie.
Herrick.
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complying adj. pr. p. of . [Narrower terms: compliant (vs. defiant)]
Syn. -- obliging, yielding.
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Compo (?), n.; pl. -pos (#). Short for ; -- used, esp. in England, colloq. in various trade applications; as : (a) A mortar made of sand and cement. (b) A carver's mixture of resin, whiting, and glue, used instead of plaster of Paris for ornamenting walls and cornices. (c) A composition for billiard balls. (d) A preparation of which printer's rollers are made. (e) A preparation used in currying leather. (f) Composition paid by a debtor.
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Compone (-pōn), v. t. [L. componere. See .] To compose; to settle; to arrange. [Obs.]
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A good pretense for componing peace.
Strype.
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Componé (kŏmpōn�), a. [F.] See .
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Component (kŏmpōn�nt), a. [L. componens, p. pr. of componere. See , v. t.] Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.
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The component parts of natural bodies.
Sir I. Newton.
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Component, n. A constituent part; an ingredient.
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Coloq. Component of force (Mech.), a force which, acting conjointly with one or more forces, produces the effect of a single force or resultant; one of a number of forces into which a single force may be resolved.
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{ Compony (?), Componé (?) }, a. [F. componé.] (Her.) Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony.
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Comport (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Comported; p. pr. & vb. n. Comporting.] [F. comporter, LL. comportare, fr.L. comportare to bring together; com- + portare to carry. See .] 1. To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury. [Obs.] Barrow.
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2. To agree; to accord; to suit; -- sometimes followed by with.
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How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness.
Beau. & Fl.
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How their behavior herein comported with the institution.
Locke.
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Comport (?), v. t. 1. To bear; to endure; to brook; to put with. [Obs.]
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The malcontented sort
That never can the present state comport.
Daniel.
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2. To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun.
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Observe how Lord Somers . . . comported himself.
Burke.
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Comport (?, formerly �), n. [Cf. OF. comport.] Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment. [Obs.]
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I knew them well, and marked their rude comport.
Dryden.
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Comportable (?), a. Suitable; consistent. [Obs.] “Some comportable method.” Wotton.
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Comportance (?), n. Behavior; comport. [Obs.]
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Goodly comportance each to other bear.
Spenser.
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Comportation (?), n. [L. comportatio.] A bringing together. [Obs.] Bp. Richardson.
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Comportment (?), n. [F. comportement.] Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.
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A graceful comportment of their bodies.
Cowley.
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Her serious and devout comportment.
Addison.
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Compose (kŏmpōz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Composed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Composing.] [F. composer; com- + poser to place. The sense is that of L. componere, but the origin is different. See , v. t.] 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.
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Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affection.
Bp. Sprat.
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2. To form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute.
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Their borrowed gold composed
The calf in Oreb.
Milton.
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A few useful things . . . compose their intellectual possessions.
I. Watts.
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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.
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Let me compose
Something in verse as well as prose.
Pope.
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The genius that composed such works as the “Standard” and “Last Supper”.
B. R. Haydon.
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4. To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate.
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In a peaceful grave my corpse compose.
Dryden.
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How in safety best we may
Compose our present evils.
Milton.
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5. To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet.
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Compose thy mind;
Nor frauds are here contrived, nor force designed.
Dryden.
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6. (Print.) To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).
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Compose, v. i. To come to terms. [Obs.] Shak.
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Composed (?), a. Free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self-possessed.
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The Mantuan there in sober triumph sate,
Composed his posture, and his look sedate.
Pope.
-- Composedly (�), adv. -- Composedness, n.
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Composer (?), n. 1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music.
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If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer.
Addison.
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His [Mozart's] most brilliant and solid glory is founded upon his talents as a composer.
Moore (Encyc. of Mus.).
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2. One who, or that which, quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference.
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Sweet composers of the pensive soul.
Gay.
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Composing, a. 1. Tending to compose or soothe.
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2. Pertaining to, or used in, composition.
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Coloq. Composing frame (Print.), a stand for holding cases of type when in use. -- Coloq. 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. -- Coloq. 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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Compositæ (?), n. pl. [NL., from L. compositus made up of parts. See .] (Bot.) A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.
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Composite (?; 277), a. [L. compositus made up of parts, p. p. of componere. See , v. t., and cf. .] 1. Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.
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Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite.
Landor.
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2. (Arch.) Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See .
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