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A substitution, as of a less thing for a greater, esp. a substitution of one form of payment for another, or one payment for many, or a specific sum of money for conditional payments or allowances; as, commutation of tithes; commutation of fares; commutation of copyright; commutation of rations. Angle of commutation (A…

To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence; to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares. The sounds wa…

Blackstone. Wedlock is described as the indissoluble compact. Macaulay. The federal constitution has been styled a compact between the States by which it was ratified. Wharton.

That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense. The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compe…

one moiety to the use of the town, and the other moiety to the use of the complainant. Statutes of Mass.

space being considered, the entire system of lines which satisfy a single relation constitute a complex; as, all the lines which meet a given curve make up a complex. The lines which satisfy two relations constitute a congruency of lines; as, the entire system of lines, each one of which meets two given surfaces, is a…

The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature. [Obs.] If his complexion incline him to melancholy. Milton. It is the complexion of them all to leave the dam. Shak.

Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion. A moral rather than a complexional timidity. Burke.

Constitutionally. [R.] Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke.

Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent. The component parts of natural bodies. Sir I. Newton.

oth comport with greatness. Beau. & Fl. How their behavior herein comported with the institution. Locke.

To form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute. Their borrowed gold composed The calf in Oreb. Milton. A few useful things . . . compose their intellectual possessions. I. Watts.

To compose; to constitute. [Obs.] His pomp and all what state compounds. Shak.

general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.

erson as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.

r when they are in contact, or through a homogenous body from particle to particle, constitutes conduction. Amer. Cyc.

Bonbons; sweetmeats; confections; also, plaster or paper imitations of, or substitutes for, bonbons, often used by carnival revelers, at weddings, etc.

ng at, or dating from, birth; pertaining to one from birth; born with one; connate; constitutinal; natural; as, a congenital deformity. See Connate.

body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.

Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.