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To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate. In a peaceful grave my corpse compose. Dryden. How in safety best we may Compose our present evils. Milton.

One who, or that which, quits or calms; one who adjust a difference. Sweet composes of the pensive sGay.

nd, and in which he arranges the type in words and lines. It has one open side, and one adjustable end by means of which the length of the lines, and consequently the width of the page or column, may be determined.

The state of being put together or composed; conjunction; combination; adjustment. View them in composition with other things. I. Watts. The elementary composition of bodies. Whewell.

Orderly adjustment; disposition. [Obs.] Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles. Woodward.

To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt. I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife. Shak. To compound a felony, to accept of a consideration for forbearing to prosecute, such compounding bei…

To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound. The controversy may easily be compromised. Fuller.

The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.

The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon.

Suppression of such facts and circumstances as in justice ought to be made known. Wharton.

To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation. It was concerted to begin the siege in March. Bp. Burnet.

Act of concerting; adjustment. [R.] Young.

d from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous. By mutual concession the business was adjusted. Hallam.

A celebrated prison, attached to the Palais de Justice in Paris.

o any person by anything that befalls him. Tillotson. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith. Rom. iii. 28.

it! Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done. Shak. Wilt thou condemn him that is most just Job xxxiv. 17.

ted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise. Every covenant of God with man . . . may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared. Bp. Warburton.

A meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committees, to adjust between them.

Forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; as, connivent justice. [R.] Milton.

Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just. Let my debtors have conscionable satisfaction. Sir H. Wotton.