compoundern.
One who compounds, in the various senses of the verb.† 2.
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a. One who makes a compound of ingredients.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > preparation by mixing > one who
compounder1622
compoundress1844
1622 G. Goodman Creatures praysing God 8 Their composition..must necessarily presuppose first a compounder.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xix. 195 To propose another [health] in honour of the punch-compounder.
1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xxv. 373 The most ignorant compounder of simples.
1883 Dr. E. Downes in Rep. Calcutta Missionary Conf. 414 In a large Hospital..a native Doctor, two Compounders, and a Steward..would be required.
1883 Dr. E. Downes in Rep. Calcutta Missionary Conf. 416 The compounders..give out the medicines.
b. compounder of medicine n. a pharmacist attached to the army medical corps.
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1894 Campbell-Bannerman in Hansard's Parl. Deb. 4th Ser. 26 830 With regard to the apothecaries, he was glad to say they were an expiring body, and as they ceased their places were taken by a class of non-commissioned officers who were called compounders of medicine.
1899 Daily News 21 Dec. 3/1 Royal Army Medical Corps. Compounders of medicine are urgently required for service in South Africa.
a. One who settles or composes strife or quarrels; reproachfully, a compromiser. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > [noun] > peacemaker
peacemaker?a1425
make-peacea1513
pacifier1533
compounder1539
pacificator1539
truce-maker1552
ground-layer1603
stickler1615
peace-wright1718
peacemonger1808
honest broker1878
society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > [noun] > settling quarrels or disputes > one who
compounder1539
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > compromise > [noun] > advocate or of
capitulator1611
compounder1735
compromiser1818
1539 C. Tunstall Serm. Palme Sondaye (1823) 73 Lyttell warre hath ben in..Christendome, but the bysshop of Rome..hath ben a styrrer of it..seldome any compounder of it.
1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha i. ii. 10 I wish him, to be as well..a Compounder, as a Commissioner of the Peace.
1612–20 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1652) iv. xix. 124 They held it to bee the best course to..bee compounders of peace and amity between Sancho Panca and the Barber.
1735 J. Swift Humble Addr. to Parl. in Wks. IV. 238 Softners, Sweetners, Compounders, and Expedient-mongers.
b. Historical. A name given (c1692) to those who wished for a restoration of James II under guarantees for the constitution and with a general amnesty.
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1775 J. Macpherson Orig. Papers I. 445 His friends in Britain, who wanted to restore him on conditions, and were known by the name of compounders.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xv. 474 The Jacobite faction was divided between compounders and non-compounders.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 385.
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a. One who compounds for a liability, debt, or charge; one who compounds a felony or offence; one who pays a lump sum in discharge of recurrent payments to which he is liable.
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society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > commutation or compounding > one who
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society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > [noun] > partial payment > one who
compounder1542
component1563
1542 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 167 Thomas Malynson shall have..the..place of a Chamberleyn..as a compownder.
1578 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 395 Eyerye Chamberlen, or compounder for Chamberlenshippe ijd.
1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. (ed. 2) 84 No small number..must then take thir turn to be made delinquents and compounders.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 58 Our holiest actions have been Th' effects of wickedness and sin: Religious Houses made Compounders For th' horrid Actions of the Founders.
1763 Brit. Mag. 4 175 Compounders neglecting..to pay their composition-money.
1832 Act 2 & 3 William IV c. 100 §5 Any person compounding for tithes..or..any tenant of any such..lessee or compounder.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 July 14/1 A compounder of felony..and a suborner of false testimony.
b. Grand and Petty Compounders: in the University of Oxford, proceeders or inceptors who paid higher fees for their degrees in consideration of being possessed of an independent income. (Abolished in 1853. Burke's use is erroneous.)
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1682 A. Wood Life (1848) 245 Bishop Brideoake's son of Trinity to be M.A., five terms given to him, and to go out grand compounder.
1691 A. Wood Fasti Oxoniensis in Athenæ Oxonienses I. 665 Richard Parker a compounder, or one that payed double or treble fees for his Degree, as having a temporal estate.
1714 J. Ayliffe Anc. & Present State Univ. Oxf. iii. i.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 312 Grand compounders in politics, who shorten the road to their degrees in the state. View more context for this quotation
1870 G. V. Cox Recoll. Oxf. (ed. 2) xii ‘Have you £300 a year of your own?’ if ‘yes’..‘then you are a Grand Compounder and your fees are so and so.’ If under £300 a year and above £5, the Proceeder was entered as Petty Compounder, and paid 10s. 8d. more.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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