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Once mere I come to know of thee, king Harry, 
If for thy ranfom thou wilt now compound , 
Before thy moft a flu red overthrow ? Shakefpeare. 
To determine. Not in ufs : 
We here deliver, 
Subfcribed by the confuls and patricians. 
Together with the feal o’ th’ fenate, what 
We have compounded on. Shahefpeare. 
COJVI'POUND,; adj. Formed out of many ingredients; 
not fimple.—The ancient eleftrum had in it a fifth of iil- 
ver to tlie gold, and made a compound metal, as fit for mod 
ufes as gold. Bacon. —[In grammar.] Competed of two or 
more words; not fimple.—Thole who are his greateftad¬ 
mirers, feern pleafed with them as beautiesI Ipeak of his 
compound epithets. Pope.—Compound or aggregated flower, 
in botany, is fuch as confilts of many little flowers, con¬ 
curring together to make up one whole one; each of which 
has its ftyle and ftamina, and adhering feed, and are all 
contained within one and the fame calyx: fuch are the 
funflovver, dandelion, See. See Botany, vol. ii. p. 298. 
COM'POUND,/. The mafs formed by the union of 
many ingredients.—Man is a compound and mixture of 
flefh as w r eli as fpirit. South. 
Love why do W'e one paflion call, 
When ’tis a compound of them all; 
Where hot and cold, where fharp and fweet, 
In all their equipages meet. Swift. 
COM'POUND INTEREST, called alfo interefl upoti 
inter eft , is that which is reckoned not only upon the prin¬ 
cipal, but upon the interell itfelf forborn, which thus be¬ 
comes a fort ol fecondary principal. See Interest. 
COM'POUND MOTION, that motion which is the 
effedt of feveral confpiring powers or forces, viz. fuch 
forces as are not direftly oppofite to each other; as, when 
the radius of a circle is confidered as revolving about a 
center, and at the fame time a point as moving ftraight 
along it; which produces a kind of a fpiral for the path 
of the point. And hence it is eafily perceived, that all 
curvilinear motion is compound, or the effeft of two or 
more forces; although every compound motion is not 
curvilinear. Tt is a popular theorem in mechanics, that 
in uniform compound motions, the velocity produced by 
the confpiring powers or forces, is to that of either of the 
two compounding powers feparately, as the diagonal of 
a parallelogram, according to the direftion of wliofe fides 
they aft feparately, is to either of the fides. See Me¬ 
chanics. 
COM'POUND NUMBERS, thole compofed of the 
multiplication of two or more numbers; 'as 12, compofed 
of 3 times 4.' See Composite. 
COM'POUND PENDULUM, that which confifls of 
feveral weights Coriftantly keeping the fame diftance, both 
from each other, arid from the center about which they 
oiciilate. See Horology. 
COM'POUND QUANTITIES, fuch as are connedted 
together by the figns + or—. Thus, a + b, or a — c+d , 
or aa —2 a, are compound quantities. Thele are diffcin- 
guifhea into binomials, trinomials, qundrinomials, See. 
according to the number of terms in them; viz, the bi¬ 
nomial having two terms, the trinomial three, the qua- 
drinomial four, &c. Alfo, thofe that have more than.two 
terms, are called by the general name of multinomials, 
as alfo polynomials. See Algebra. 
COM'POUND RATIO, is that which is made by add¬ 
ing two or more ratios together; viz. by multiplying all 
their antecedents together for the antecedent, and all the 
confequents together for the confequent of the compound 
ratio. 
COMPOUND'ABLE, adj. Capable of being com¬ 
pounded. 
COMPOUND'ER, f. One who endeavours to bring 
parties to terms of agreement.—Thofe foftners, fweet- 
ners, compounders , and expedient-mongers, who ihake 
their heads fo ftrongiy, Swift ,-—Uiingler j one who 
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mixes bodies.—In Oxford univerfity, one who having a 
landed ellate takes a degree : when the eilate amounts to 
a certain value, he is grand compounder. Mafon. 
COMPOUNDING FELONY, in the criminal law, is 
where the party robbed not only knows the felon, but al¬ 
fo takes his goods again, or other amends upon agreement 
not to profeeute. It was formerly held to make a man 
an accelFary ; but is now putiilhed only with fine and iin- 
prilbnment. 1 Hawk. P. C. c. 59.-—To take any reward 
for helping a perfon to Helen goods, is made felony by 
4 Geo. I. c. 11.—And to advertife a reward for the re¬ 
turn of things ftolen, incurs a forfeiture of fifty pounds 
by 25 Geo. III. c. 36. 
To COMPREHE'ND, <v. a. [comprehendo, Lat.] To 
comprife; to include.; to contain; to imply.—If there 
be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in 
this faying, namely, Thou. Ihalt love thy neighbour as. 
thyfelf. Rom. xiii. 9,—To contain in the mind ; to un¬ 
derhand : to conceive.—’Tis uni11ft, that they who have 
not the leaft notion of heroic writing; ftiould therefore 
condemn the pleafure which others-receive from it, be-»- 
caufe they cannot comprehend it. Dryxlen. 
Rome was not better by her Horace taught, 
Than we are here to comprehend his thought. Waller. 
COMPREHEN'SIBLE, adj. [comprehenflhle, Fr. com- 
prehenfibills, Lat.] Intelligible ; attainable by the mind ; 
conceivable by the underftanding.—The horizon fets the 
bounds between the enlightened and dark parts of things, 
between what is and what is not cotsiprehenflble by us, 
Locke. —Pollible to be ccmprifed.—Left this part of know¬ 
ledge fliould feem to any not comprehenflhle by axiom, we 
will fet down f’ome heads of it. Bacon. 
COMPREHENSIBLY, adnj. With great power of fig- 
nification or underftanding; lignificantly ; with great ex¬ 
tent of ftnfe. Tillotfon feems to have tiled comprehenflhly: 
for comprehenfively. —The words wifdom and righteouf- 
nefs are commonly uled very comprehenflhly , fo as to fig- 
nify all religion and virtue. Tillotfon. 
COMPREHENSION, f. [comprehenfo, Lat.] The a el 
or quality of comprifing or containing ; inclufion.—The 
comprehenfion of an idea, regards ail elfential modes and 
properties of it; fo body, in its comprehenfion, takes in 
folidity, figure, quantity, mobility. Watts .—Summary 5 
epitome; compendium; abftraft ; abridgment, in which 
much is comprifed.—If we. would draw- a fhort abftraft of 
human happinefs, bring together all the various ingre r 
dients of it, and digeft them into one prefeription, we 
mult atlaft fix ion this wife and religious aphorifm in my 
text, as the funi and comprehenfion of all. Rogers. —. 
Knowledge; capacity ; power of the mind to admit and 
contain many ideas at once.—You give no proof of de¬ 
cay of your judgment, and comprehenfion of all things, 
within the compafs of an human underftanding. Dryden. 
—[In rhetoric.] A trope or figure, by which the name 
of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for the 
whole, or a definite number for an indefinite. Harris. 
COMPREHENSION,/, in Engjifh church-hiitory, was 
a fcheme propofed by fir Orlando Bridgman, in. 1667-8, 
for relaxing the terms of conformity in behalf of prote^ 
ftant diflenters, and admitting them into the communion 
of the church. A bill for this purpofe was drawn up by 
lord chief baron Hale, but difallowed. The attempt was 
renewed by Tillotfon and Stillingfleet, in 1674, and the 
terms were fettled to the fatisfaftion of tfie nonconform- 
ilts; but the bifliops refufed their aflent. This fcheme 
was likewife revived again immediately after the revolu¬ 
tion ; the king and queen exprefled their defire of an 
union: however the defign failed after two attempts, 
and the aft of toleration was obtained. 
COMPREHENSIVE, adj.. Having'the power to com¬ 
prehend or underhand many things at once :■ 
His hand unftain’d, his uncorrupted heart. 
His comprehenfi'-ve head; all interefts weigh’d,, , 
All Europe lav’d, yet Britain not betray’d. Pope. 
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