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ted in silence all these reasons. Milton. Minds combat minds, repelling and repelled. Goldsmith.

gin. Here the anthem doth commence. Shak. His heaven commences ere the world be past. Goldsmith.

book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents. His [Goldsmith's] compilations are widely distinguished from the compilations of ordinary bookmakers. Macaulay.

esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents. He [Goldsmith] compiled for the use of schools a History of Rome. Macaulay.

The state of being complex; complexity. A. Smith.

Compliance; disposition to yield to others. Goldsmith.

ound word; the result of composition. Shak. Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun. Goldsmith. When the word "bishopric" was first made, it was made as a compound. Earle.

law already dead. Pope. No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn. Goldsmith.

act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed. He [Goldsmith] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. Macaulay.

s I confess it needs must be. Tennyson. As an actor confessed without rival to shine. Goldsmith.

Extremely; odiously; detestably. [Colloq.] "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.

e the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused. Milton. Kind, connubial tenderness. Goldsmith.

signifies our consciousness of having acted agreeably or contrary to its directions. Adam Smith.

e bribes Shak. I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. Goldsmith.

taining to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven. Dr. John Smith (1666).

guous at one of their angles. Sir I. Newton. Sees no contiguous palace rear its head. Goldsmith. Contiguous angles. See Adjacent angles, under Angle.

any object; to assist. These men also contributed to obstruct the progress of wisdom. Goldsmith.

ispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater. For a patriot, too cool. Goldsmith.

Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat. "The cooling brook." Goldsmith. Cooling card, something that dashes hopes. [Obs.] -- Cooling time (Law), such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked. Wharton.

Somewhat cool. The nights began to grow a little coolish. Goldsmith.