Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: COM-PRINT' – COM-PULS'A-TIVE, or COM-PULS'A-TORY
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COM-PRINT', v.i. [See Print.]
To print together. It is taken, in law, for the deceitful printing of another's copy or book, to the prejudice of the proprietor. [Little used.] – Philips.
COM-PRIS'AL, n.
The act of comprising or comprehending. – Barrow.
COM-PRISE', v.t. [s as z. Fr. compris, participle of comprendre, L. comprehendo. See Comprehend.]
To comprehend; to contain; to include; as, the substance of a discourse may be comprised in a few words.
COM-PRIS'ED, pp.
Comprehended; contained.
COM-PRIS'ING, ppr.
Containing; including; comprehending.
COM'PRO-BATE, v.i.
To agree in approving; to concur in testimony. – Elyot.
COM-PRO-BA'TION, n. [L. comprobatio, comprobo; con and probo, to prove.]
Proof; joint attestation. [Little used.] – Brown.
COM'PRO-MISE, n. [s as z. L. compromissum, from compromitto, to give bond to stand to an award; con and promitto, to promise; It. compromesso; Fr. compromis; Sp. compromiso. See Promise.]
- A mutual promise or contract of two parties in controversy, to refer their differences to the decision of arbitrators.
- An amicable agreement between parties in controversy, to settle their differences by mutual concessions.
- Mutual agreement; adjustment. – Judge Chipman. [This is its usual signification.]
COM'PRO-MISE, v.t.
- To adjust and settle a difference by mutual agreement, with concessions of claims by the parties; to compound.
- To agree; to accord. Shak.
- To commit; to put to hazard; to pledge by some act or declaration. [In this sense, see Compromit, which is generally used.]
COM'PRO-MIS-ED, pp.
Settled by agreement with mutual concessions.
COM'PRO-MIS-ER, n.
One who compromises.
COM'PRO-MIS-ING, ppr.
Adjusting by agreement.
Relating to a compromise. – Chalmers.
COM'PRO-MIT, v.t. [Fr. compromettre; It. compromettere; Sp. comprometer; L. compromitto; com and promitto, to promise.]
To pledge or engage, by some act or declaration, which may not be a direct promise, but which renders necessary some future act. Hence, to put to hazard, by some previous act or measure, which cannot be recalled; as, to compromit the honor or the safety of a nation.
COM'PRO-MIT-ED, pp.
Pledged by some previous act or declaration.
COM'PRO-MIT-ING, ppr.
Pledging; exposing to hazard.
COM-PRO-VIN'CIAL, n. [con and provincial.]
One belonging to the same province or archiepiscopal jurisdiction. Ayliffe.
COMPT, a. [L. comptus.]
Neat; spruce. [Not used.]
COMPT, n. [Fr. compte, from computo.]
Account; computation. [Obs.] Shak.
COMPT, v.t.
To compute. [Obs.] [See Count.]
COMPT'I-BLE, a.
Accountable; subject; submissive. [Obs.] – Shak.
COMPT'LY, adv.
Neatly. [Not in use.] – Sherwood.
COMPT'NESS, n.
Neatness. [Not in use.] – Sherwood.
COMP'TON-ITE, n.
A newly discovered mineral, found in drusy cavities of masses ejected from Mount Vesuvius; so called from Lord Compton, who brought it to England in 1818. Ure.
COM-PULS'A-TIVE, or COM-PULS'A-TORY, a. [L. compulsus, from compello; Low L. compulso. See Compel.]
Compelling; forcing; constraining; operating by force. – Shak.