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One who makes a compact.

To qualify as a companion; to make equal. [Obs.] Companion me with my mistress. Shak.

One who makes comparisons; one who affects wit. [Obs.] "Every beardless vain comparative." Shak.

ces and contrasts. Beyond comparison, so far superior as to have no likeness, or so as to make comparison needless. -- In comparison of, In comparison with, as compared with; in proportion to. [Archaic] "So miserably unpeopled in comparison of what it once was." Addison. -- Comparison of hands (Law), a mode of provin…

ruction, used in observations on the variations of the needle. -- To fetch a compass, to make a circuit.

To make one yield or submit. "If she can not entreat, I can not compel." Shak.

To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.

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…

resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause. Burke. To make them act zealously is not in the competence of law. Burke.

[Goldsmith's] compilations are widely distinguished from the compilations of ordinary bookmakers. Macaulay.

One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation.

To make a formal accusation; to make a charge. Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king Shak.

One who makes complaint. Eager complainants of the dispute. Collier.

To make level. [R.]

That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.

atisfy 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 congruency.

To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult. Nor can his complicated sinews fail. Young. Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action. Addison. When the disease is complicated with other diseases. Arbuthnot.…

o many hollow compliments and lies. Milton. Many a compliment politely penned. Cowper. To make one a compliment, to show one respect; to praise one in a flattering way.Locke. -- To make one's compliments to, to offer formal courtesias to. -- To stand on compliment, to treat with ceremony.

To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments. [Obs.] Shak.

To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all pious affection. Bp. Sprat.