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Webster 1913 Edition
Compounder
Com-pound′er
,Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, compounds or mixes;
as, a
. compounder
of medicines2.
One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.
“Compounders in politics.” Burke.
3.
One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
Religious houses made
For the horrid actions of their founders.
compounders
For the horrid actions of their founders.
Hudibras.
4.
One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
[Eng.]
A. Wood.
5.
(Eng. Hist.)
A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.
Webster 1828 Edition
Compounder
COMPOUNDER
, n.1.
One who compounds or mixes different things.2.
One who attempts to bring parties to terms of agreement.Definition 2024
compounder
compounder
English
Noun
compounder (plural compounders)
- A person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result)
- a compounder of medicines
- One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.
- Burke
- Compounder in politics.
- Burke
- One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
- Hudibras
- Religious houses made compounders / For the horrid actions of their founders.
- Hudibras
- (Britain, archaic) One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of A. Wood to this entry?)
- (Britain, historical) A Jacobite who favoured the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.