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† compilement Obs.|kəmˈpaɪlmənt|
[f. compile v. + -ment.]
1. The compiling (of a literary work, etc.).
1656H. More Enthus. Triumph A 6 a After the whole compilement whereof. 1657Howell Londinop. Advt. to Rdr., Though the method, the style, and compilement be his. 1676Packet Advices to Men of Shaftesb. 32 His Lordship was no stranger to its compilement.
b. The action of constructing or building up.
a1639Wotton Surv. Education Ded., How I could build a man; for there is a moral as well as a natural or artificial compilement, and of better materials.
2. concr. That which is compiled, a compilation.
1665–6Phil. Trans. I. Ep. Ded. 1 The Intimation of large Compilements. 1729Swift Let. to Pope Wks. 1761 VIII. 91 The compilements of Graevius and Gronovius, which make thirty-one volumes in folio. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1859) I. 95 That tesselated compilement..well known by the title of La Morte d'Arthur.
b. A structure.
c. A collection, accumulation.
1624Wotton Archit. Pref. in Reliq. 4, I found it fitter for my pen..to deal with these plain Compilements and tractable Materials. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. ii. 63 A Compilement of all Imaginable Attributes of Honour, Courtship, and Complement. a1687H. More App. Antid. (1712) 225 This compilement of Aiery or Fiery particles. |