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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Compounder | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Compounder \Com*pound"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines. 2. One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish, ends by compromises. [bd]Compounders in politics.[b8] --Burke. 3. One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime. Religious houses made compounders For the horrid actions of their founders. --Hudibras. 4. One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take. [Eng.] --A. Wood. 5. (Eng. Hist.) A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. | |
