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compesce, v. arch.|kəmˈpɛs|
Also 5 compesse.
[ad. L. compescĕre to fasten together, restrain, curb. Since 16th c. only in Sc. writers.]
trans. To restrain, repress, curb.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xiv, By manly force rathest there compesse The spyryte of Ire and melancolye. 1637Gillespie Eng.-Pop. Cerem. iii. viii. 176 A coactive power to compesce the turbulent. 1680tr. Buchanan's De Jure Regni (1689) 27 A Plaister to compesce the Eruptions of Flegm. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 102 Compesce me, muse, these stout bravadoes. 1721Wodrow Suff. Ch. Scot. (1828) I. Introd. 21 Tyranny which was compesced with very much ado. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. VII. xviii. iii. 132 Oldenburg..has coerced and compesced them into soldierly obedience. |