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, of mind; heat; excitement. "He could not debate anything without some commotion." Clarendon.

The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment. Suits are allowable in the spiritual courts for money agreed to be given as a commutation for penance. Blackstone.

hip; agreeable; sociable. "Each companionable guest." Mallett. "Companionable wit." Clarendon. -- Com*pan"ion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*pan"ion*a*bly, adv.

In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.

rge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity.

ition to yield to others; complaisance. A man of few words and of great compliance. Clarendon.

. Pope. The genius that composed such works as the "Standard" and "Last Supper". B. R. Haydon.

A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.

howing study and care in arrangement; -- often used of an elementary essay or translation done as an educational exercise.

ear. Shak. They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower. Clarendon. Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds. R. Carew. Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to. Hudibras.

eputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion. To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances. Motley.

He acknowledged his disloyalty to the king, with expressions of great compunction. Clarendon.

culation; to reckon; to count. Two days, as we compute the days of heaven. Milton. What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. Burns.

her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence. Clarendon.

ronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London. Macaulay. To be in conclave, to be engaged in a secret meeting; -- said of several, or a considerable number of, persons.

The act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising; rumination. Donne.

To agree; to act together. [Obs.] Clarendon.

nsure. Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done. Shak. Wilt thou condemn him that is most just Job xxxiv. 17.

our life appears So well designed, so luckily begun, But when we have our wish, we wish undone Dryden.

y the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.