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get through. Chaucer. -- To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the worst." Calamy. -- To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave disquisitions." Felton. -- To come on. (a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive. (b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene. -- To come out. (a) To pass…

r of some other work. This letter . . . was published by him with a severe commentary. Hallam.

omments or notes upon; to make comments. [R.] Commentate upon it, and return it enriched. Lamb.

he peers] even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam.

c; the public, or people in general. Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community. Hallam.

t; to besiege; -- used with about, round, around, and round about. With terrors and with clamors compassed round. Milton. Now all the blessings Of a glad cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round.uke xix. 43.

or moral force. Wolsey . . . compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once. Hallam. And they compel one Simon . . . to bear his cross. Mark xv. 21.

afed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners. Hallam. No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them. Burke.

Compensation. [R.] Lamb.

To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel. O lose of sight, of three I most complain! Milton.

One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer. Beattie. Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought. Shak.

Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding. I poured out my complaint before him. Ps. cxlii. 2. Grievous complaints of you. Shak.

on agreed upon in the adjustment. Compositions for not taking the order of knighthood. Hallam. Cleared by composition with their creditors. Blackstone.

of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions. Hallam.

ng, which is voluntary or spontaneous. By mutual concession the business was adjusted. Hallam.

That class of Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the Lamellibranchiata. See Mollusca.

cited such universal discontent, that it was found expedient to conciliate the nation. Hallam.

Concord; agreement. [Obs.] Aschlam.

Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable.

The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation. In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley.