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competition ; rival: as, a competitory treatise, compinget (kom-pinj'), r. (. [< L. compingerv, 
F(t/><:>-. [Rare.] 
competitress (kom-pet'i-tres), n. [< competitor 
+ -ess.] A female competitor. 
competitrixt (kom-pet'i-triks), n. [L., fern, of 
competitor: see competitor.'] Same as competi- 
tress. 
conpinyere, fix together, confine, < com-, to- 
gether, + pangere, fasten : see compact 1 , a.] 
To compress ; shut up. 
luto what straits hath it been compinyed, a little flock ! 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 599. 
compiret, An obsolete form of comjiccr 1 . 
Queen Anne, now being without competitrix for her MinshcH, 1617. 
title, thought herself secure. Lord Herbert, Hen. VIII. C0 mpitalia (kom-pi-ta'li-a), . [L., neut. pi. of 
compilation (kom-pi-la'shon), n. [< F. compi- compitalis, of or pertaining to cross-roads, < 
cuiiipitum, also competum and compitim, a place 
where several ways meet, a cross-road, < com- 
petcre, meet or come together, coincide, agree : 
see compete, competent.] In Kom. untiq., a festi- 
val celebrated annually at cross-roads in honor 
of the Lares. It was held soon after the Satur- 
nalia, on a day fixed by the pretor. 
There is in it a small vein filled with spar, probably since Complacence, Complacency (kom - pla ' Sens, 
the time of the compilation of the mass. -sen -si), n.', pi. complacences, complacencies 
(-sen-sen, -siz). [= F. complaisance = Pr. Sp. 
Pg. complacencia = It. compiaeensa, < ML. eom- 
placentia, < L. complacen(t-)s, very pleasing: 
Ititimi = Pr. compilatio Sp. compilation = Pg. 
compilaqao = It. compilazione, < L. compilii- 
tio(it-), a compilation, lit. a pillaging, plunder- 
ing, < oomptiare,ff. compilatus, snatch together 
and carry off, plunder: see compile.'] 1. The 
act of bringing together ; a gathering or piling 
up ; collection. 
Woodward, Fossils. 
2. The gathering of materials for books, docu- 
ments, tables, etc., from existing sources ; the 
act of bringing together and adapting things 
see complacent and -ence, -ency.] 1. Disposition 
said or written by different persons for the ex- to please, or an act intended to give pleasure ; 
position of a subject. 
Nearly at the same time [sixth century], both in the 
Eastern Church under John the Faster, and in the ex- 
treme West muler the Irish and other Celtic missionaries, 
began the compilation of Fenitentials. 
Stiiblu, Medieval and Modem Hist., p. 29C. 
3. That which is compiled ; a book or treatise 
produced by compiling. 
Among the ancient story-books of this character, a Latin 
compilation, entitled Oesta Romanorum, seems to have 
been the favourite. T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry. 
compilatort (kom'pi-la-tor), n. [ME. compila- 
frieudly civility, or a civil act. See complai- 
sance (now generally used in this sense). 
Complacency, and truth, and manly sweetness, 
Dwell ever on his tongue, and smooth his thoughts. 
Addition. 
Every moment of her life brings me fresh instances of 
her complacency to my inclinations. Steele, Tatler, No. 95. 
The round* 
Of smooth and solemnized complacencies, 
By which, on Christian lands, from age to age 
Profession mocks performance. 
Wordsworth, Excursion, v. 
2. A feeling of quiet pleasure; satisfaction; 
tour = F. compilateur ="Sp. Pg. compilador = gratification ; especially, self-satisfaction. 
It. compilatore, < L. compilator, < compilare, pp. 
compilatus, snatch together : see compile, and 
cf. compiler.] A compiler. Chaucer. 
compile (kom-pil'), v. t.; pret. and pp. com- 
piled, ppr. compiling. [< ME. compilen, < OF. 
compiler, F. compiler = Pr. Sp. Pg. compiler = It. 
compilare, < L. compilare, snatch together and 
carry off, plunder, pillage (the sense of ' com- 
pile' appears in deriv. compilatio: see compi- 
lation), < com-, together, + pilare, rob: see 
pill 2 , pillage.'] 1. To make or form (a written 
or printed work) by putting together in due or- 
der or in an order adapted to the given purpose, 
and with such changes and additions as may be 
deemed necessary or desirable, literary, histori- 
cal, or other written or printed materials col 
The great Galees of Venice and Florence 
Be wejl laden with things of complacence, 
All spicery and of grossers ware. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 193. 
But also in complacences, nowise so strict as this of the 
passion [love], the man of sensibility counts it a delight 
only to hear a child's voice fully addressed to him, or to 
see the beautiful manners of the youth of either sex. 
Emerson, Success. 
3f. That which gives satisfaction ; a cause of 
pleasure or joy ; a comfort. 
O thou, my sole complacence ! Milton, P. L, iii. 276. 
Love Of complacency. See love of benevolence, under 
beneeolence. = Svn. Complacency, Complaisance. CtMnto- 
cency once included the meaning of both these words, but 
they are now separated, complacency retaining the mean- 
ings allied to quiet pleasure or satisfaction, and making 
over to complaisance those connected with the disposition 
lected from various sources ; prepare or draw or effort to compliment, please, and oblige, 
up by selecting, adapting, and rearranging ex- '"-* '- J - - 
isting materials : as, to compile tables of weights 
and measures; to compile a gazetteer or a glos- 
sary. 
They have often no other task than to lay two books be- 
fore them, out of which they compile a third, without any 
new materials of their own. 
In the middle of the sixth century Dionysius Exiguus, a 
Roman abbot, compiled the collection of canons which was 
the germ and model of all later collections. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 296. 
2f. To write ; compose. 
Of that fight how it felle in a few yeres, 
That was clanly compilet with a clerk wise, 
On Gydo, a gome [man], that graidly hade soght, 
And wist all the werks by weghes he hade. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 53. 
Yet nobody even now, I suppose, receives a summons 
to attend a jury with perfect complacency. 
Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 175. 
Wild. If it were not to please you, I see no necessity for 
our parting. 
Jac. I protest I do it only out of complaisance to you. 
Dryden, Mock Astrologer, iv. 
Johnson, Idler, No. 85. complacent (kom-pla'sent), a. [= F. complai- 
sant = Sp. complaciente = Pg. complacente = It. 
compiacente, < L. complacen(t-)s, very pleasing, 
Epr. of complacere, please at the same time (> 
t. compiacere = Sp. Pg. complacer = F. com- 
plaire, please), be very pleasing (the E. sense 
'pleased' due rather to complacence, q. v.), < 
com-, together, + placere, please : see please, 
and cf. complaisant, which is a doublet of com- 
placent.] 1. Civil; kindly; giving pleasure. 
In poetry they compile the praises of virtuous men and See complaisant (now generally used in this 
timid OV*. !!/ fT~*.*~l~ * 
actions. Sir W. Temple. 
3f. To contain ; comprise. 
After so long a race as I have run 
Through Faery land, which these six books compile, 
Give leave to rest me. Spenser, Sonnets, Ixxx. 
4f. To make up or place (together) ; compose ; 
construct. 
sense). 
That calm look which seem'd to all assent, 
And that complacent speech which nothing meant. 
Crabue, Parish Register. 
Eternal love doth keep, 
In his complacent arms, the earth, the air, the deep. 
Bryant, The Ages, vi. 
2. Accompanied with or springing from a sense 
of quiet enjoyment; gratified; satisfied: as, a 
complacent look or smile. 
They look up with a sort of complacent awe to kings. 
Burke. 
Walles . . . built of most white and blacke stones, 
which are disposed checkerwise one by another, and curi- 
ously compiled together. Hakluyt's Voyages, IL 64. 
He did intend 
A brasen wall in compas to compyle 
About Cairmardin. Spenser, F. Q., III. iii. 10. COmplacentialt (kom-pla-sen'shal), a. [< ML. 
Monsters compiled and complicated of divers parents complacentia, complacence (see complacence), + 
Donne, Devotions, p. 68. -al.] Marked by complacence ; arising from or 
6+. To bring into accord or agreement ; recon- causing gratification. 
The more high and excellent operations of complacen- 
tial love. Baxter, Life and Times (1696), fol. p. 7. 
cile. 
The Prince had perfectly compylde 
These paires of friends in peace and setled rest. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. ix. 17. 
compilementt (kom-pll'ment), n. [< compile + 
-nient.] The act of putting or piling together 
or heaping up. Woodward. 
compiler (kom-pl'ler), n. [< ME. compilour, < 
OF. compileor, compileur, < L. compilator, < 
compilare, compile. Cf. compilator.] One who complain (kom-plau'), v. 
compiles; one who makes a compilation. compleynen,cotnpleignen,<. O 
complacently (kom-pla'sent-li), adv. In a com- 
fication, especially self-satisfaction. 
We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and 
compare with great pride the high standard of morals es- 
tablished in England with the Parisian laxity. 
Macaulay, Moore's Byron. 
[< ME. complmjnen, 
'F. complaindre, com- 
complaining 
pleindre, F. complaindre = Pr. complagner, com- 
2>laiif/cr = Sp. compluHir (obs.) = It. eomj>ia- 
gin-ri; coiiipiaiKjcre, < ML. complangere, bewail, 
complain, < L. com-, together, + plangere, 
strike, beat, as the breast in extreme grief, be- 
wail: eee plain%, plaint.'] I. intrans. 1. To ut- 
ter expressions of grief, pain, uneasiness, cen- 
sure, resentment, or dissatisfaction ; lament or 
murmur about anything; find fault. 
That he sholde a-mende alle the fuutes wherof thei cowde 
hem complayne [bewail themselves]. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i- 80. 
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Job vii. 11. 
Our merchants are complaining bitterly that Great Brit- 
ain is ruining their trade, and there is great reason to com- 
plain. J. Adams, in Bancroft's Hist. Const., I. 444. 
2. Figuratively, to make a sound resembling 
that of lamentation or suffering ; emit a mourn- 
ful sound or noise: as, the complaining wind; 
the sea complains dismally. 3. To utter an 
expression of discomfort or sorrow from some 
cause ; speak of the suffering of anything : with 
of: as, to complain o/headache, of poverty, or 
of wrong. 
In the midst of water I complain of thirst. Dryden. 
4. To make a formal accusation against a per- 
son, or on account of anything ; make a charge : 
with of. 
And where thei saugh sir Gawein, thei drough a-boute 
hym and compleyntd to hym of hym-self, and seide that 
he hadde hem euyll be seyn at that flrste turnement. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 462. 
Now, master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king? 
Shak., M. W. of W., i. 1. 
Complain unto the duke of this indignity. 
Shak., C. of E., v. 1. 
= Syn. 1. To bewail, repine, grieve, mourn, grumble, 
croak. 
Il.t trans. To lament ; bewail ; deplore. Lyd- 
gate. 
They might the grievance inwardly couijiliiiu. 
But outwardly they needs must temporize. 
Daniel, Civil Wars. 
Gaufride, who could'st so well in rhyme complain 
The death of Richard with an arrow slain. 
Dryden, Fables. 
complain (kom-plan'),. [< complain, v.] Com- 
plaint; outcry. [Poetical.] 
Then came a conquering earth -thunder, and rumbled 
That fierce complain to silence. Keats. 
complainablet (kpm-pla'na-bl), a. [< complain 
+ -able.] Capable of being or worthy to be 
complained of. 
Though both [profaneness and superstition] be blame- 
able, yet superstition is less cmnplainable. 
Feltham, Resolves, i. 36. 
complainant (kom-pla'nant), n. [< F. com- 
platgnant, ppr. of complaindre : see complain, v., 
and -an* 1 .] 1. One who makes a complaint; 
a complainer. 
Congreve and this author are the most eager complain- 
ants. Jeremy Collier, Def. of Short View. 
In one particular case, the complaint of the King, the 
old assumption that complainants are presumably in the 
right was kept long alive among us. 
Maine, Early Hist, of Institutions, p. 272. 
Hence 2. One who suffers from ill health. 
[Rare.] 
Taxed as she was to such an extent that she had no en- 
ergy left for exercise, she is, now that she has finished her 
education, a constant complainant. 
II. Spencer, Education, p. 262. 
3. In law, one who prosecutes by complaint, 
or commences a legal process against another; 
a plaintiff; a prosecutor; in particular, the 
plaintiff in a suit in equity, or one on whose 
complaint a criminal prosecution is asked for. 
Complainer (kom-pla'ner), n. One who com- 
plains, laments, or bewails; a faultfinder; a 
murmurer ; a grumbler. 
Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought 
Shak., Tit. And., iii. 2. 
St. Jude observes, that the murmurera and complainers 
are the same who speak swelling words. 
Government of the Tongue. 
complainful (kom -plan 'ful), a. [< complain 
+ -ful, 1.] Full of complaints ; complaining. 
[Rare.] 
complaining (kom-pla'ning), n. [ME. com- 
pleigniiige;^ verbal n. of complain, r.] The ex- 
pression of regret, sorrow, or dissatisfaction ; 
a murmuring ; a complaint. 
They vented their complainings. Shak., Cor., i. 1. 
complaining (kom - pla ' ning), p. a. [Ppr. of 
complain, v.] 1. Expressing or expressive of 
complaint; lamenting; murmuring: as, to speak 
in a complaining tone. 
Rivers that move 
In majesty, and the complaining brooks 
That make the meadows green. 
Bryant, Thauatopsis. 
