Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.]

1. A mutual promise or contract of two parties in controversy, to refer their differences to the decision of arbitrators.
2. An amicable agreement between parties in controversy, to settle their differences by mutual concessions.
3. Mutual agreement; adjustment. – Judge Chipman. [This is its usual signification.]

COM'PRO-MISE, v.t.

1. To adjust and settle a difference by mutual agreement, with concessions of claims by the parties; to compound.
2. To agree; to accord. Shak.
3. 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.

COM-PRO-MIS-SO'RI-AL, a.

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.