Metaphorical compellations. 
Milttm, Apology for Smectymmms. 
The peculiar compellation of the kings of France is by 
"Sire." Sir It'. Temple. 
To begin with me he gives me the compellatinn of the 
Author uf a Dnunatick Essay. 
Dryden, Def. of Ess. on Dram. Poesy. 
compear 1144 
to present one's self in a court in person or 
by counsel. [Obsolete except in legal use.] 
Two elders, being called and conipeared, acknowledged 
the testimonial was false and fur^c.l. 
Quoted in \. and y., 7th ser., IV. 126. 
compearance (kom-per 'aus), . [< compear 
+ -aiice; after OF. comparence, comparance, < 
ML. comparentia, c 
ance.] Appearance 
ance made for a defender 
counsel in an action. [Obsolete except in legal 
use.] Diet of compearance. See diet*. 
compearer (kom-per'er), . One who appears ; 
in Scots law, an interlocutor by which one who .. . 
conceives that he has an interest in an action, Compellatory (kom-pera-to-ri), a. [< compel 
although not called as a party to it, is permitted r -atory.] Tending to compel; compulsory. 
to compear and sist himself as party to it. [Ob- [R ar e.] 
solete except in legal use.] Process compeUatory. G. Cavendish, Cardinal Wolsey. 
compeer 1 (kom-per'), n. [< ME. compeer, com- compeller (kom-pel'er). n. One who compels 
perc, compcr, cionper, < OF. "comper, F. compair or constrains'.' 
= Pr. compar, ' 
equal, 
>OF 
compare 
one who has equal rank or standing in any re- Jer. Taylor, Real Presence, ii. ^ 
spect; an equal, especially as a companion or compend (kom'pend), n. [< ML. compendium : 
associate. see compendium.'] Same as compendium. 
live case ; the co-mpellatire use of a word. 
II. n. In gram., a name by which a person 
is addressed ; a proper name. 
With him ther rood a gentil pardoner 
Of Kouneivale, his frend and his comper. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 670. 
He so grette [greeted] alle 
Of his campers that he knew so curteysliche & faire. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 370. 
And him thus answer'd soon his bold compeer. 
Milton, P. L., i. 127. 
The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridg- 
ment and compend of a nation's arts. 
Emerson, Civilization. 
COmpendiarioust (kom-pen-di-a'ri-us), a. [< 
L. compendiarius, short, < compendium, a short 
way: see compendium.] Short; compendious. 
Bailey. 
His [Landor's] dramatic compeers can almost be num- COmpendiatet (kom-pen'di-at), V. t. [< LL 
bered on the fingers of one hand 35B T Sbd ^ft 
=Syn. See associate, n. (condense), < L. compendium, that which is 
compeer^ (kom-per'), v. t. [< compeer' 1 , n.] To weighed^ together: see compendium.] To sum 
up or collect together; comprehend. 
That which. . . compendiatet h all blessing peace upon 
Israel. Bp. King, Vitis Palatina (ed. 1614), p. 2. 
equal; match; be equal with. 
In my rights, 
By me invested, he compeers the best. 
compeer'^, v. i. See compear. SA *" **" v ' 3 ' compendiosityt (kom pen-di-os-i-ti), . [< ML. 
compel (kqm-pel'), . t. ; pret. and pp. compelled, P<^osita(t-)s, < L. compendiosus, compen- 
ppr. compelling. [< ME. compelled, < OF. com- dlou ?; see compendious.] Compeadiousness ; 
eHir = Pr. P! hZKr = iV ,;,> , . brevity ;_ conciseness. a/. 
pellir = Pr. Pg. co.npellir = Sp. wmpeUr, com- 
constrain 
urge with force or irresistibly; 
oblige; coerce, by either physical 
in a narrow compass; short; abridged; con- 
uvuvvmiuj uunge; wuerue, uy eiiner pnvsicai *----> 
or moral force: as, circumstances cwp</us to Clse: &a > ?. eompendtous system of chemistry; 
practise economy. a compendious grammar. 
Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them 
to come in, that my house may be filled. Luke xiv. 23. 
I am almost of opinion that we should force you to ac- 
cept the command, as sometimes the Praetorian bands 
have compelled their captains to receive the empire. 
Dryden, Ded. of Ess. on Dram. Poesy. 
2. To subject; force to submit; subdue. 
I compel all creatures to my will. Tennyson, Geraint. 
Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to 
a vulgar sadness. Thureau, Walden, p. 142. 
3. To take by force or violence; wrest; extort. 
[Bare.] 
The subjects' grief 
Comes through commissions, which compel from each 
The sixth part of his substance. Shak., Hen. VIII., i. 2. 
His words and actions are his own and honour's, 
Not bought, nor compell'd from him. 
Fletcher, Double Marriage, iii. 3. 
compendious grammar. 
On esy wyse latte thy Resone be sayde 
In wordes gentylle and also compendious. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 3. 
Three things be required in the oration of a man having 
authority that it be compendious, sententious, and de- 
lectable. Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, ii. 2. 
2f. Narrow; limited. 
[Bare.] 
Thies men, in matters of Diuinitie, openlie pretend a 
great knowledge, and haue priuately to them selues a 
verie compendious vnderstanding of all. 
Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 82. 
3f. Short ; direct ; not circuitous. 
Wherein Mr. Vallence after a wonderesly compendious, 
facile, prompte, and redy waye, nott withoute painfull 
delegence and laborious Industrie, doth enstructe them. 
Quoted in Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. xxi. 
I think the most compendious cure, for some of them at 
least, had been in Bedlam. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 631. 
4. To drive together; unite by force ; gather in =Syn. 1. Succinct, Summary, etc. See concise. 
a crowd or company; herd. [A Latinism, and compendiously (kom-pen'di-us-li), adv. In a 
compendious or terse, brief manner; summa- 
rily ; in brief ; in epitome. 
Brief, boy, brief ! 
Discourse the service of each several table 
Compendiously. Beau, and Fl., Woman-Hater, i. 2. 
The state or condition of matter before the world was 
a-makiug is compendiously expressed by the word chaos. 
Bentley. 
compendiousness (kom-pen'di-us-nes), n. The 
state or quality of being compendious ; concise- 
ness ; brevity ; terseness ; comprehension within 
a narrow compass. 
No man being compellable to confess publicly any sin , 
before Novatian's time. Hooker, Eccles. Polity vi 4 . Tlle mvltl "g easiness and compendiousness of this asser- 
Joint tenants are compellable by writ of partition' to di- Bentley, Sermons, ix. 
vide their lands. Blackstone. Compendium (kpm-pen'di-um), n. [= F. com- 
compellably (kom-pel'a-bli), adv. By compul- pendium = Sp. 'Pg. It. compendia, < ML. com- 
sion. Todd. pendium, an abridgment, in L. a short way, 
compellation (kom-pe-la'shon), n. [< L. com- a short cu t lit- a sparing, saving, that which is 
pellatio(n-), < compelldre, coiipelldre, pp. com- weighed together, < compendere, weigh together, 
pellatus, conpellatus, accost, address, reproach balance, < com-, together, + pendere, weigh : see 
freq. of compellere, conpelUre, urge : see compel."] pendent. Cf. compensate.'] A brief compilation 
A distinguishing form of address or salutation ; or composition containing the principal heads 
rare.] 
Wyld beastes in yron yokes he would compett. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. vi. 26. 
Attended by the chiefs who fought the field, 
(Now friendly mix'd, and in one troop compell'd.) 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., iii. 720. 
5. To overpower; overcome; control. [Bare.] 
But easy sleep their weary limbs compelled. Dryden. 
compellable (kom-pel'a-bl), o. [< compel + 
-able.] Capable of being or liable to be com- 
pelled or constrained. 
a characteristic appellation or denomination. 
That name and compellation of little flock doth not com- 
fort, but deject my devotion. 
Sir T. Brmme, Religio Medici, i. 58. 
of a larger work or system, or the general prin- 
ciples or leading points of a subject ; an abridg- 
ment; a summary; an epitome. Also com- 
pend. 
compensation 
\Vr are that hold and adventurous piece of nature, which 
he that studies wisely learns in a compendium, what 
others labour at in a divided piece and endless volume. 
Sir T. Browne, Religio iledici, i. 15. 
A short system or compendium of a science. 
Watts, Improvement of Mind. 
= Syn. Epitome, Abstract, etc. See abridgment. 
compensablet (kom-peii'sa-bl),. [< compense 
+ -able : = F. Sp. compensate, etc.] Capable 
of being compensated. Cotyrave. 
compensate (kom-pen'sat or kom'pen-sat), .; 
pret. and pp. compensated, ppr. comjiennntiiig. 
[< L. compensatus, conpensatus, pp. of compen- 
sare, conpensare (whence ult. the earlier form 
compense, q. v. ), weigh together one thing against 
another, balance, make good, later also shorten, 
spare, < com-, together, -I- pensare, weigh, > ult. 
E. poise, q. v. Cf. compendium.] I. trans. 1. 
To give a substitute of equal value to ; give an 
equivalent to ; recompense: as, to compensate a 
laborer for his work or a merchant for his losses. 
Nothing can i-m/'/^'u^iti' a people for the loss of what we 
may term civic individuality. 
Gladstone, Might of Right, p. 203. 
2. To make up for; counterbalance; make 
amends for. 
All the wealth and treasures of the Indies can never 
compensate to a man the loss of his life. 
Stillingjieet, Sermons, I. xii. 
To compensate our brief term in this world, it is good 
to know as much as we can of it. 
Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., iii. 29. 
Up to a certain period, the diminution of the poetical 
powers is far more than cimpensated by the improvement 
of all the appliances and means of which those powers 
stand in need. ilacaulay, Dryden. 
3. In mech., to construct so as to effect com- 
pensation for the results of variations of tem- 
perature. See compensation, 4. 
So long as the clocks themselves are no better than they 
are, it would undoubtedly be a waste of money to compen- 
sate the pendulums. 
Sir E. Beckett, Clocks and Watches, p. 180. 
= Syn. Recompense, Remunerate, etc. (see indemnify) re- 
ward. 
II. intrans. To supply or serve as an equiva- 
lent ; make amends ; atone : followed by for : 
as, what can compensate for the loss of honor? 
No apparatus of senators, judges, and police can com- 
pensate for the want of an internal governing sentiment. 
//. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 298. 
compensation (kom-pen-sa'shon), n. [= F. 
compensation = Pr. compensacio'= Sp. compen- 
sacion = Pg. compeitsaqao = It. compensazione, 
< L. compensatio(n-), < compensare, compensate : 
see compensate.] 1. The act of compensating; 
counterbalance: as, nature is based on a sys- 
tem of compensations. 2. That which is given 
or received as an equivalent, as for services, 
debt, want, loss, or suffering ; indemnity ; rec- 
ompense; amends; requital. 
He that thinks to serve God by way of compensation, 
that is, to recompense God by doing one duty, for the omis- 
sion of another, sins even in that, in which he thinks he 
serves God. Donne, Sermons, v. 
He [the Nabob) . . . made overtures to the chiefs of the 
invading armament, and offered to restore the factory, and 
to give compensation to those whom he had despoiled. 
ilacaulay, Lord Clive. 
3. That which supplies the place of something 
else, or makes good a deficiency, or makes 
amends : as, the speed of the hare is a compen- 
sation for its want of any weapon of defense. 
His [Dante's] gentleness is all the more striking by con- 
trast, like that silken compensation which blooms out of 
the thorny stem of the cactus. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 46. 
4. In mech., means of creating a balance of 
forces ; counteraction of opposing tendencies ; 
adjustment for equilibrium. Compensation of the 
contraction and expansion of metals through variations 
of temperature is effected in the pendulums and balance- 
wheels of timepieces chiefly by a combination of metals 
of different expansibilities, and in iron beams, rails, etc., 
by allowance for increase and diminution of length ; of 
inequalities in magnetic attraction, etc., by devices called 
compensators. See compensation-balance, below, and com- 
pensator. 
5. In the ciml law, the extinguishment of a debt 
by a counter-claim which the debtor has against 
his creditor, thus effecting the simultaneous ex- 
tinguishment of two obligations, or of one and 
part of another Compensation-balance, -pendu- 
lum, a balance-wheel or a pendulum so constructed as to 
counteract the effects of temperature, under which the in- 
strument would otherwise move slower when warmer and 
faster when colder. A compensation-pendulum is com- 
monly & gridiron pendulum or a mercurial pendulum. (See 
pendulum.) A comi>ensation-balance has compensation- 
bars. Compensation-bars, bars formed of two or more 
metals of different expansibilities, so that changes of 
temperature have the effect of bending them one way or 
the other. They are used to produce perfect equality of 
motion in the balances of watches and chronometers. 
Commonable Rights Compensation Act, an English 
statute of 1882 (45 and 4(i Viet., c. 15), providing for the ap- 
