Com*pel"ler (?), n. One who compels or constrains.
Com"pend (?), n. A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
A compend and recapitulation of the Mosaical law.
Bp. Burnet.
Com*pen`di*a"ri*ous (?), a. [L. compendiarius.] Short; compendious. [Obs.] Bailey.
Com*pen"di*ate (?), v. t. [L. compendiatus, p. p. of compendiare to shorten, fr. compendium.] To sum or collect together. [Obs.] Bp. King.
Com*pen"di*ous (?), a. [L. compendiosus.] Containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized.
More compendious and expeditious ways.
Woodward.
Three things be required in the oration of a man having authority -- that it be compendious, sententious, and delectable.
Sir T. Elyot.
Syn. -- Short; summary; abridged; condensed; comprehensive; succinct; brief; concise.
Com*pen"di*ous*ly, adv. In a compendious manner.
Compendiously expressed by the word chaos.
Bentley.
Com*pen"di*ous*ness, n. The state or quality of being compendious.
Com*pen"di*um (?), n.; pl. E. Compendiums (#), L. Compendia (#). [L. compendium that which is weighed, saved, or shortened, a short way, fr. compendere to weigh; com- + pendere to weigh. See Pension, and cf. Compend.] A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary.
A short system or compendium of a science.
I. Watts.
Syn. -- See Abridgment.
Com"pen*sate (? or ?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compensated; p. pr. & vb. n. Compensating.] [L. compensatus, p. p. of compensare, prop., to weigh several things with one another, to balance with one another, verb intens. fr. compendere. See Compendium.] 1. To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.
2. To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.
The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day.
Bacon.
The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries.
Prior.
Syn. -- To recompense; remunerate; indemnify; reward; requite; counterbalance.
Com"pen*sate, v. i. To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.
Com`pen*sa"tion (?), n. [L. compensatio a weighing, a balancing of accounts.] 1. The act or principle of compensating. Emerson.
2. That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense.
The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners.
Hallam.
No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them.
Burke.
3. (Law) (a)The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off. Bouvier. Wharton. (b) A recompense or reward for some loss or service. (c) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
Compensation balance, or Compensated balance, a kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different metals having different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement. -- Compensation pendulum. See Pendulum.
Syn. -- Recompense; reward; indemnification; consideration; requital; satisfaction; set-off.
Com*pen"sa*tive (?), a. [LL. compensativus.] Affording compensation.
Com*pen"sa*tive, n. Compensation. [R.] Lamb.
Com"pen*sa`tor (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices.
2. (Naut.) An iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle.
Com*pen"sa*to*ry (?), a. Serving for compensation; making amends. Jer. Taylor.
Com*pense" (?), v. t. [F. compenser. See Compensate.] To compensate. [Obs.] Bacon.
Com`pe*ren"di*nate (?), v. t. [L. comperendinatus, p. p. of comperendinare to defer (the time of trial.)] To delay. Bailey.
Com*pesce" (?), v. t. [L. compescere.] To hold in check; to restrain. [R.] Carlyle.
Com*pete" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Competed; p. pr. & vb. n. Competing.] [L. completere, competitum; com- + petere to seek. See Petition.] To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another.
The rival statesmen, with eyes fixed on America, were all the while competing for European alliances.
Bancroft.
{ Com"pe*tence (?), Com"pe*ten*cy (?) }, n. [Cf. F. compÚtence, from L. competentia agreement.] 1. The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power.
The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause.
Burke.
To make them act zealously is not in the competence of law.
Burke.
2. Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess.
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,
Lie in three words -- health, peace, and competence.
Pope.
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
Shak.
3. (Law) (a) Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence. (b) Right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court. Kent.
Com"pe*tent (k&obreve;m"p&esl;*tent; 94), a. [F. compÚtent, p. pr. of compÚter to be in the competency of, LL. competere to strive after together, to agree with; hence, to be fit. See Compete.] 1. Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit. "A competent knowledge of the world." Atterbury. "Competent age." Grafton. "Competent statesmen." Palfrey. /"A competent witness." Bouvier.
2. Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to. [Rare, except in legal usage.]
That is the privilege of the infinite Author of things, . . . but is not competent to any finite being.
Locke.
Syn. -- See Qualified.
Com"pe*tent*ly, adv. In a competent manner; adequately; suitably.
Com*pet"i*ble (?), a. Compatible; suitable; consistent. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.
Com`pe*ti"tion (?), n. [L. competition. See Compete.] The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.
Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be.
Bacon.
A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competition.
Dryden.
There is no competition but for the second place.
Dryden.
Where competition does not act at all there is complete monopoly.
A. T. Hadley.
Syn. -- Emulation; rivalry; rivalship; contest; struggle; contention; opposition; jealousy. See Emulation.
Com*pet"i*tive (?), a. Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination.
Com*pet"i*tor (?), n. [L.: cf. F. compÚtiteur.] 1. One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.
And can not brook competitors in love.
Shak.