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The settling of a debt, liability, or claim, by some mutual arrangement; compounding. composition of felony: see compound, v. 9. Cf. 22–25.
The action of compound, v. in its various senses. Committee for Compounding (17th cent.): see compound, v. 15b; compounding of felony: see compound…