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COMPE'TIBLENESS,/. Suitablenefs.; fitnefs, 
COMPETTTION,/. [from con and pctitio, Lat.] The 
aft of endeavouring to gain what another endeavours to 
■gain at the fame time; rivalry; contell.—Though what 
produces any degree of pleafure be in itfelf good, and 
■what is apt to produce any degree of pain be evil, yet 
often we do not call it fo, when it comes in competition: 
the degrees alfo of pleafure and pain have a preference. 
Locke. —Double l claim; claim of more than one to one 
thing: anciently with to. — Competition to the crown there 
is none, nor can be. Bacon. —Now with ./or.—The prize 
of beauty was difputed till you were feen ; but now all 
pretenders have withdrawn their claims : there is no com¬ 
petition but for the fecond place. Dryden. 
COMPE'TITOR,/ {_co>i and petitor , Lat.] One that 
has a claim oppofite to another’s; a rival: wither be¬ 
fore the thing claimed.— Cicertius and Scipio were com¬ 
petitors for the office of prsetor. Taller. —He who trufts in 
God has the advantage in prelent felicity ; and, when we 
take futurity into the account, (lands alone, and is ac¬ 
knowledged to have no competitor. Rogers. 
How furious and impatient they be, 
And cannot brook competitors in love. Sbakefpeare. 
It had formerly of before the thing claimed.—Selymes, 
king of Algiers, was in arms againlt his brother Meche- 
metes, competitor of the kingdom. Knolles. —In Shakefpeare 
it feems to (ignify only an opponent: 
The Guildfords are in arms. 
And every hour more competitors 
Flock to the rebels. Richard III. 
COMPEY'RE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Aveiron, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift: 
of Milhaud, on the Tarn : one league north of Milhaud. 
COMPIA'NO, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Parma, 
on the Taro : twelve miles from Pontremoli. 
COMPIE'GNE, a town of France, and principal place 
of a diftrift, in the department of the Oile, with a forelt 
of wood, containing 27,000 acres, of which 100 are cut 
every year; the principal commerce confilts in corn, wine, 
and wood : the wine is much efteemed : twenty-eight miles 
eaft of Beauvais. Lat. 49. 23. N. Ion. 20. 30. E. Ferro. 
COMPILA'TION,/. [from compi'lo, Lat.] A colleftion 
from various authors. An aftemblage ; a coacervation.— 
There is in it a fmall vein filled with fpar, probably fince 
the time of the compilation of the mafs. Wooid'ward. 
To COMPI'LE, no. a. [cotnpilo , Lat.] To draw up from 
various authors ; to colleft into one body. To write ; to 
compofe.—In poetry they compile the praifes of virtuous 
men and aftions, and fatires againlt vice. Temple.—To 
contain ; to comprife. Not ufed. 
After fo long a race as I have run 
Through fairy land, which thole lix books compile, 
Give leave to reft me. Spenfer. 
To make up ; to compofe. Not ufed. 
•Lion-like, unlandilh and more wild. 
Slave to his pride, and all his nerves being naturally 
compil'd 
■Of eminent ftrength, (talks out and preys upon a filly 
Iheep. Chapman. 
To put together: 
He did intend 
A brafen wall in compafs to compili 
About Caiiniardin. Spenfer. 
To bring together: 
The prince had perfeftly compylde 
Thefe paires of friends in peace and fettled reft. Spenfer. 
COMPI'LEMENT,/ Coacervation; the aft of piling 
together; the aft of heaping up.—I was encouraged to 
allay how I could build a man ; for there is a moral as 
well as a natural or artificial compilement, and of better 
•saaterials. Wotton. 
C O M 
COMPILER,/. A collector; one who frames a com- 
polition from various authors.—-Some draw experiments 
into titles and tables: thofe we call compilers. Bacon. 
CQMPITA'LIA, feftivals celebrated by the Romans 
the 12th of January and the 6th of March, in the crofs 
ways, in honour of the houfehold gods.called Lares. Tar- 
quin the Proud full inftituted them, on account of an 
oracle which ordered him to offer heads to the Lares. He 
facrificed to them human viftims; but J. Brutus, after 
the expulfion of the Tarquins, thought it fufficient to 
offer them only poppy heads, and men of draw. The 
Haves were generally the minifters, and, during their ce¬ 
lebration, they enjoyed their freedom. Varro. 
COMPL A'CENCE, or Complacency, f. \_complacen- 
tia, low Lat.] Pleafure; fatisfaftion ; gratification.—Dif- 
eafes extremely leffen the complacence we have in all the 
good things of this life. Atterbury .—Others proclaim the 
infirmities of a great man with fatisfaftion and complacency, 
if they difeover none of the like in themlelves. Addifon. 
I by converling cannot thefe ereft 
From prone, nor in their ways complacence find. Milton. 
The caufe of pleafure; joy : 
O thou, in heav’n and earth the only peace 
Found out for mankind under wrath ! O thou, 
My foie complacence! Milton. 
Civility; complaifance ; foftnefs of manners.—His great 
humanity appeared in the benevolence of his afpeft, the 
complacency of his behaviour, and the tone of his voice. 
Addifon. 
Complacency and truth, and manly fweetnefs, 
Dwell ever on his tongue, and linooth his thoughts. Addif 
With mean complacence ne’er betray your truft, 
Nor be fo civil as to prove unjuft. Pope. 
COMPLA'CENT, adj. [complacens , Lat.] Civil; affa¬ 
ble ; foft; complaifant. 
To COMPLA'IN, <v. n. \_complaindre, Fr.] To mention 
with forrow or refentment; to murmur; to lament. With 
of before the caufe of forrow : fometimes with on. —I will 
ipeak in the anguilh of my fpirit ; I will complain in the 
bitternefs of my loul. Job, vii. 11.—Do not all men com¬ 
plain, even thefe as well as others, of the great ignorance 
of mankind ? Burnet. 
Shall I, like thee, on Friday night complain? 
For on that day was Cceur de Leon (lain. Dryden. 
Sometimes with for before the caufal noun.—Wherefore 
doth a living man complain, a man for the punilhment of 
his fins ? Lam. iii. 39.—To inform againft.—Now, mailer 
Shallow, you’ll complain of me to the council. Sbakefp. 
To COMPLA'IN, <v.a. [This lenle is rare, and per¬ 
haps not very proper.] To lament; to bewail; 
Pale death our valiant leader hath opprefs’d, 
Come wreak his lofs whom bootlefs ye complain. Fairfax, 
Gaufride, who could fo well in rhime complain 
The death of Richard, with an arrow flam. Dryden. 
COMPLAINANT,/. One who urges a fuit, or com¬ 
mences a profecution, againft another.—Congreve and 
this author are the moll eager complainants of the difpute. 
Collier. 
COMPLAIN'ER,/ One who complains; a murmurer; 
a lamenter.—Philips is a cqmplainer ; and on this occalion 
I told lord Carteret, that complainers never lucceed at 
court, though railers do. S-iviJ't. 
COMPLA'INT,/. [ complainte , Fr.] Reprefentation of 
pains or injuries; lamentation.—I cannot find any caule 
of complaint, that good laws have fo much been wanting 
unto us, as we to them. Hooker. 
Adam faw 
Already in part, though hid in gloomieft (hade, 
To ferrow abandon’d, but worlt felt within. 
And in a troubled lea of paffion tofs’d, 
Thus to dilburthen fought with lad complaint. Milton. 
