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In a compact manner.

In a compact manner; with close union of parts; densely; tersely.

Close union or connection of parts; manner of joining; construction. [Obs.] "With comely compass and compacture strong." Spenser.

wship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse. Shak. Evil company doth corrupt good manners. 1 Cor. xv. 33. (Rev. Ver. ). Brethren, farewell: your company along I will not wish. Milton.

In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.

In a compatible manner.

In a compendious manner. Compendiously exressed by the word chaos. Bentley.

In a competent manner; adequately; suitably.

In a complacent manner.

In a complete manner; fully.

In a complex manner; not simply.

In a compliant manner.

In a complex manner.

Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment. [Obs.] I knew them well, and marked their rude comport. Dryden.

Manner of acting; behavior; bearing. A graceful comportment of their bodies. Cowley. Her serious and devout comportment. Addison.

To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture. Let me compose Something in verse as well as prose. Pope. The genius that co…

A preparation of fruit in sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered; as, a compote of pears. Littr

Intelligibly; in a manner to be comprehended or understood.

In a comprehensive manner; with great extent of scope.

In an egotistical manner.