compostn.¹

/ˈkɒmpəst/

Forms: Also (sense 3) 1500s compest.

Etymology: < Old French compost, cumpost < Latin compositum (later compostum ) neuter of past participle: see compost adj.

a. A composition, combination, compound.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [noun] > a combination

combination?1533

composition1556

composure1609

composture1614

compound1621

annexationa1626

conjugation1626

complexiona1637

composta1640

consistence1641

conferrumination1647

compositum1652

copulation1774

amalgam1790

amalgamation1828

combo1929

a1640 T. Jackson Μαραν Αθα (1657) 3372 To know what malice is,..what villany or treachery is. For Satan is but a Compost of these.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 7 The skilful do..clearly discern in this Front..all the rules of Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian Architecture, and of Composts which are, and yet appear not.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 289 This is no Compost, Collectorium or Inventory of Single Duties.

1863 W. E. Gladstone Financial Statem. 159 Some new composts are brought forward and delivered to a discerning public.

b. A literary composition, compendium.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > compendium or abridgment

abridgementa1500

epitome1529

compendie1574

compendiary1589

compendium1589

compend1596

reductory1699

compost1837

condensation1867

redaction1948

1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 359 A sort of jack-daw compilateur who has inflated his compost to a forty shilling volume.

†2. Cookery. = compote n. Obsolete.

a. A stew of various ingredients.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > dish of many ingredients > [noun]

rapé1381

jussel?c1390

hodgepotc1430

composta1475

olla1535

olla podrida1590

gallimaufry1591

pot-pourri1611

hodge-podge1622

olio1642

potrido1651

salmagundi1674

oil1706

Solomon-gundy1752

chow-chow1795

powsowdie1816

make-up1841

poor do1870

scramble1893

mulligan1898

pot mess1914

chow1926

katogo1940

panaché1961

a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 18 (heading) For to make a compost [with chickens, herbs, spices, etc.].

b. spec. A preparation of fruit or spice preserved in wine, sugar, vinegar, or the like.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > preserve > [noun]

compostc1430

succade1463

succate1481

sucket1481

confecture1502

conserva1502

conserves1555

comfiture1558

condite1583

preserve1598

compote1693

konfyt1862

pozzy1900

c1430 Two Cookery-bks. (1888) 59 Le ij cours, Compost, Brode canelle, Potage.

c1450 Two Cookery-bks. (1888) 87 Peris in compost, take pere Wardones..pare hem, and seth hem..and cast hem to the Syryppe..And then pare clene rasinges of ginger..and caste hem to the peres in composte.

1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.iii Loke your composte be fayre and clene.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 159 White oliues..before they be put vp in their compost or pickle.

3. A mixture of various ingredients for fertilizing or enriching land, a prepared manure or mould.

Also †composs, compass n.²

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > composting > compost

compass1580

compose1581

compost1587

composturea1616

compasture1627

1258 Charter St. Albans Abbey in M. Paris (Rolls) V. 668 Cum composto..ad prædictum manerium meliorandum.]

1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1878) iii. viii. ii. 54 That ground will serve well, and without compest for barleie.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxv. 254 The good gardiner seasons his soyle by sundrie sorts of compost: as mucke or marle, clay or sande..bloud, or lees of oyle or wine.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 142 Doe not spread the compost o[n] the weedes To make them rancker.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §597.

1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Dict. in Compl. Gard'ner sig. Aiii Compost. Is rich made Mold, compounded with choice Mold, rotten Dung, and other enriching ingredients.

1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 637 Turn the clod, and wheel the compost home.

1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 165 The neighbouring farmers made them [herrings] up into composts, and manured their ground with them.

1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 30 The soil for hyacinths is a compost..consisting of light loam, leaf-mould, river-sand, and well-rotted dung.

figurative.1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xix. 141 Martyrs ashes are the best compost to manure the Church.1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. iii. 38/1 Mind, which grows, not..(by having its roots littered with etymological compost).1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. 24/2 (note) Stories like those..in Sanders grow like mushrooms in the compost of hatred.

4. attributive. compost-heap (sense 3).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > composting > compost heap

bumby1632

compost-heap1780

1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 72 A new accession to the loaded compost heap of corrupt influence.

1884 J. H. Ewing Mary's Meadow (1886) 43 We'll have a compost heap of our own this autumn.

Draft additions June 2014

compost bin n. an outdoor bin in which waste organic matter is deposited and compost formed; (also) an indoor container for compostable kitchen waste.

ΚΠ

1896 P. H. Rolfs Veg. Growing in South 10 When any odor is escaping from the compost heap or bin, we may be sure that valuable fertilizer is escaping.

1921 Bull. N.Y. Bot. Garden 9 459 A concrete compost bin 10 feet by 20 feet was built in the school garden.

1969 Financial Times 18 Oct. 7/2 If you want to make a children's playhouse, a compost bin, or a rubbish dump..you might fancy a nice log effect.

2004 Times 28 Sept. (Review section) 35/4 Empty last year's compost bin or heap, and make room for this year's waste.

2008 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 19 Jan. (Mag.) 19 To deodorise your kitchen compost bin, wash it out with a solution of one teaspoon of lemon juice dissolved in one litre of water.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

† compostn.²

Etymology: < Old French compost, corrupt form of compot (nominative compoz , compos ) < late Latin computus calculation, < computāre to compute, reckon up. The Old French compost (= compost n.¹) was reduced in pronunciation and sometimes in spelling to compot, by association with which this word was also spelt compost, and latinized as compostum, as if a ‘collection’ of some kind.

Obsolete.

= computus n.; esp. a calendar or computation of astronomical and ecclesiastical data.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun]

calendarc1340

calends1470

reckoningc1480

compute1483

compost1535

ephemeris1597

computus1675

year count1894

the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical calculation > [noun] > astronomical tables

Arzachel's tablesa1400

collect yearsc1405

Toletan tablesc1405

compute1483

compost1535

regimenta1544

Prutenic tables1599

Prutenics1603

horoscopea1656

computus1675

Alfonsines1710

solar tables1812

1535 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (rev. ed.) ix. iii. f. cxxxix/1 These houres putte togyder in the fourth yere, maketh a day that is called bisextilis, as Beda sayth. But hereof loke in the Compost [a1398 BL Add. 27944 Compot, L. in computo].

1560 (title) A Compound manuell, or Compost of the hand, wherby you may easilie finde out by the arte of the hand, all things pertayning to the vse of common Almanacks..Printed by Tho. Marsh. 8vo.

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xiv. 69 The compost, for knowing the age of the Moon, the seasons of the year, and tides of the sea.

1656 Sheph. Kalender i This present book is named the Compost, for it comprehendeth fully all the compost and more, for the days, hours, and moments, and the new moons, and the eclipse of the Sun and Moon.

1844 S. R. Maitland Dark Ages 21.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

† compostadj.

Etymology: < Old French compost (= Italian composto ) < Latin compostus , compositus : see composite adj. and n.

Obsolete.

Composed, compounded; composite, compound.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > state of being composite > [adjective]

compoundc1400

jointc1400

pieced1419

mixed?a1425

complexionatec1430

partyc1500

concrete1536

compost?1541

united1567

composed1570

compounded1570

integral1588

compositive1601

integrate1601

complicate1638

complexa1652

complicated1667

composite1678

co-unala1711

conglomerate1835

polylithic1961

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Biv^v The compost membres..be they that maye be deuyded in other kyndes.

1562 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Y j Wynes they skinke with cakes compost.

1649 H. Hammond Christians Obligations x. 248 A sad γλυκύπικρον, a compost of more bitter then sweet.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

compostv.

/ˈkɒmpəst/

Forms: Also 1500s compest, compesse.

Etymology: < Old French composter to manure, to dung, < compost , noun. In medieval Latin compostāre . Compare compass v.² and compester v.

1. To treat with compost, to manure or dung.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > fertilize or manure [verb (transitive)] > compost

compost1499

compass1557

compester1628

composturea1693

1388 Charter Priory of Newenham in W. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum (1661) II. 243 Dictas terras excolendas et compostandas sive per carectam sive per ovile.]

1499 Promptorium Parvulorum 89 Compostyn or dungyn, stercoro.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Dungen, compesse, or mucke, stercoro.

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1878) iii. x. ii. 69 The inhabitors doo compest their soile.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 53 Fields..drencht with blood, and composted with carcasses.

figurative.1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xxx. 285 The plowman..will be soon out of heart, if not maintained and (as I may say) composted with hopes to receive benefit by his labours.

2. To make into compost.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > fertilize or manure [verb (transitive)] > compost > make into compost

compost1829

1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 6 Our farmers..use considerable quantities, composted with earth, for their different crops.

1864 Reader No. 101. 711/2 The rotten leaves are composted by the pressure of the atmosphere.

Derivatives

composting n. manuring.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > composting

composting1481

1481 W. Caxton Tulle of Old Age By which dongyng and compostyng the feldes gladeth.

1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. vi. f. 135 As barrayne ground,..wyth dunging and composting, is agayne restoared to fertility.

1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) i. xviii. 109/1, in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I It shall not need of anie further compesting.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹c1430

n.²1535

adj.?1541

v.1481

单词	compost
释义	compostn.¹ /ˈkɒmpəst/ Forms: Also (sense 3) 1500s compest. Etymology: < Old French compost, cumpost < Latin compositum (later compostum ) neuter of past participle: see compost adj. 1. a. A composition, combination, compound. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [noun] > a combination combination?1533 composition1556 composure1609 composture1614 compound1621 annexationa1626 conjugation1626 complexiona1637 composta1640 consistence1641 conferrumination1647 compositum1652 copulation1774 amalgam1790 amalgamation1828 combo1929 a1640 T. Jackson Μαραν Αθα (1657) 3372 To know what malice is,..what villany or treachery is. For Satan is but a Compost of these. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 7 The skilful do..clearly discern in this Front..all the rules of Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian Architecture, and of Composts which are, and yet appear not. 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 289 This is no Compost, Collectorium or Inventory of Single Duties. 1863 W. E. Gladstone Financial Statem. 159 Some new composts are brought forward and delivered to a discerning public. b. A literary composition, compendium. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > compendium or abridgment abridgementa1500 epitome1529 compendie1574 compendiary1589 compendium1589 compend1596 reductory1699 compost1837 condensation1867 redaction1948 1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 359 A sort of jack-daw compilateur who has inflated his compost to a forty shilling volume. †2. Cookery. = compote n. Obsolete. a. A stew of various ingredients. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > dish of many ingredients > [noun] rapé1381 jussel?c1390 hodgepotc1430 composta1475 olla1535 olla podrida1590 gallimaufry1591 pot-pourri1611 hodge-podge1622 olio1642 potrido1651 salmagundi1674 oil1706 Solomon-gundy1752 chow-chow1795 powsowdie1816 make-up1841 poor do1870 scramble1893 mulligan1898 pot mess1914 chow1926 katogo1940 panaché1961 a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 18 (heading) For to make a compost [with chickens, herbs, spices, etc.]. b. spec. A preparation of fruit or spice preserved in wine, sugar, vinegar, or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > preserve > [noun] compostc1430 succade1463 succate1481 sucket1481 confecture1502 conserva1502 conserves1555 comfiture1558 condite1583 preserve1598 compote1693 konfyt1862 pozzy1900 c1430 Two Cookery-bks. (1888) 59 Le ij cours, Compost, Brode canelle, Potage. c1450 Two Cookery-bks. (1888) 87 Peris in compost, take pere Wardones..pare hem, and seth hem..and cast hem to the Syryppe..And then pare clene rasinges of ginger..and caste hem to the peres in composte. 1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.iii Loke your composte be fayre and clene. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 159 White oliues..before they be put vp in their compost or pickle. 3. A mixture of various ingredients for fertilizing or enriching land, a prepared manure or mould. Also †composs, compass n.² ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > composting > compost compass1580 compose1581 compost1587 composturea1616 compasture1627 1258 Charter St. Albans Abbey in M. Paris (Rolls) V. 668 Cum composto..ad prædictum manerium meliorandum.] 1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1878) iii. viii. ii. 54 That ground will serve well, and without compest for barleie. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxv. 254 The good gardiner seasons his soyle by sundrie sorts of compost: as mucke or marle, clay or sande..bloud, or lees of oyle or wine. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 142 Doe not spread the compost o[n] the weedes To make them rancker. View more context for this quotation 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §597. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Dict. in Compl. Gard'ner sig. Aiii Compost. Is rich made Mold, compounded with choice Mold, rotten Dung, and other enriching ingredients. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 637 Turn the clod, and wheel the compost home. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 165 The neighbouring farmers made them [herrings] up into composts, and manured their ground with them. 1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 30 The soil for hyacinths is a compost..consisting of light loam, leaf-mould, river-sand, and well-rotted dung. figurative.1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xix. 141 Martyrs ashes are the best compost to manure the Church.1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. iii. 38/1 Mind, which grows, not..(by having its roots littered with etymological compost).1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. 24/2 (note) Stories like those..in Sanders grow like mushrooms in the compost of hatred. 4. attributive. compost-heap (sense 3). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > composting > compost heap bumby1632 compost-heap1780 1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 72 A new accession to the loaded compost heap of corrupt influence. 1884 J. H. Ewing Mary's Meadow (1886) 43 We'll have a compost heap of our own this autumn. Draft additions June 2014 compost bin n. an outdoor bin in which waste organic matter is deposited and compost formed; (also) an indoor container for compostable kitchen waste. ΚΠ 1896 P. H. Rolfs Veg. Growing in South 10 When any odor is escaping from the compost heap or bin, we may be sure that valuable fertilizer is escaping. 1921 Bull. N.Y. Bot. Garden 9 459 A concrete compost bin 10 feet by 20 feet was built in the school garden. 1969 Financial Times 18 Oct. 7/2 If you want to make a children's playhouse, a compost bin, or a rubbish dump..you might fancy a nice log effect. 2004 Times 28 Sept. (Review section) 35/4 Empty last year's compost bin or heap, and make room for this year's waste. 2008 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 19 Jan. (Mag.) 19 To deodorise your kitchen compost bin, wash it out with a solution of one teaspoon of lemon juice dissolved in one litre of water. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † compostn.² Etymology: < Old French compost, corrupt form of compot (nominative compoz , compos ) < late Latin computus calculation, < computāre to compute, reckon up. The Old French compost (= compost n.¹) was reduced in pronunciation and sometimes in spelling to compot, by association with which this word was also spelt compost, and latinized as compostum, as if a ‘collection’ of some kind. Obsolete. = computus n.; esp. a calendar or computation of astronomical and ecclesiastical data. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] calendarc1340 calends1470 reckoningc1480 compute1483 compost1535 ephemeris1597 computus1675 year count1894 the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical calculation > [noun] > astronomical tables Arzachel's tablesa1400 collect yearsc1405 Toletan tablesc1405 compute1483 compost1535 regimenta1544 Prutenic tables1599 Prutenics1603 horoscopea1656 computus1675 Alfonsines1710 solar tables1812 1535 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (rev. ed.) ix. iii. f. cxxxix/1 These houres putte togyder in the fourth yere, maketh a day that is called bisextilis, as Beda sayth. But hereof loke in the Compost [a1398 BL Add. 27944 Compot, L. in computo]. 1560 (title) A Compound manuell, or Compost of the hand, wherby you may easilie finde out by the arte of the hand, all things pertayning to the vse of common Almanacks..Printed by Tho. Marsh. 8vo. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xiv. 69 The compost, for knowing the age of the Moon, the seasons of the year, and tides of the sea. 1656 Sheph. Kalender i This present book is named the Compost, for it comprehendeth fully all the compost and more, for the days, hours, and moments, and the new moons, and the eclipse of the Sun and Moon. 1844 S. R. Maitland Dark Ages 21. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † compostadj. Etymology: < Old French compost (= Italian composto ) < Latin compostus , compositus : see composite adj. and n. Obsolete. Composed, compounded; composite, compound. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > state of being composite > [adjective] compoundc1400 jointc1400 pieced1419 mixed?a1425 complexionatec1430 partyc1500 concrete1536 compost?1541 united1567 composed1570 compounded1570 integral1588 compositive1601 integrate1601 complicate1638 complexa1652 complicated1667 composite1678 co-unala1711 conglomerate1835 polylithic1961 ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Biv^v The compost membres..be they that maye be deuyded in other kyndes. 1562 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Y j Wynes they skinke with cakes compost. 1649 H. Hammond Christians Obligations x. 248 A sad γλυκύπικρον, a compost of more bitter then sweet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021). compostv. /ˈkɒmpəst/ Forms: Also 1500s compest, compesse. Etymology: < Old French composter to manure, to dung, < compost , noun. In medieval Latin compostāre . Compare compass v.² and compester v. 1. To treat with compost, to manure or dung. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > fertilize or manure [verb (transitive)] > compost compost1499 compass1557 compester1628 composturea1693 1388 Charter Priory of Newenham in W. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum (1661) II. 243 Dictas terras excolendas et compostandas sive per carectam sive per ovile.] 1499 Promptorium Parvulorum 89 Compostyn or dungyn, stercoro. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Dungen, compesse, or mucke, stercoro. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1878) iii. x. ii. 69 The inhabitors doo compest their soile. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 53 Fields..drencht with blood, and composted with carcasses. figurative.1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xxx. 285 The plowman..will be soon out of heart, if not maintained and (as I may say) composted with hopes to receive benefit by his labours. 2. To make into compost. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > fertilize or manure [verb (transitive)] > compost > make into compost compost1829 1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 6 Our farmers..use considerable quantities, composted with earth, for their different crops. 1864 Reader No. 101. 711/2 The rotten leaves are composted by the pressure of the atmosphere. Derivatives composting n. manuring. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > composting composting1481 1481 W. Caxton Tulle of Old Age By which dongyng and compostyng the feldes gladeth. 1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. vi. f. 135 As barrayne ground,..wyth dunging and composting, is agayne restoared to fertility. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) i. xviii. 109/1, in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I It shall not need of anie further compesting. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1430n.²1535adj.?1541v.1481
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