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Compesce
Com-pesce′
,Verb.
T.
[L.
compescere
.] To hold in check; to restrain.
[R.]
Carlyle.
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compesce
compesce
English
Verb
compesce (third-person singular simple present compesces, present participle compescing, simple past and past participle compesced)
- (obsolete, transitive) To hold in check; to restrain.
- 1858 Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia
- And has coerced and compesced them (all that did not contrive to desert) into soldierly obedience[.]
- 1858 Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia