Religious houses made 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.
||Com`pra*dor (?), n. [Pg., a buyer.] A kind of steward or agent. [China] S. W. Williams
Com`pre*ca"tion (?), n. [L. comprecatio, fr. comprecari to pray to. See Precarious.] A praying together. [Obs.] Bp. Wilkins.
Com`pre*hend" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Comprehended; p. pr. & vb. n. Comprehending.] [L. comprehendere, comprehensum; com- + prehendere to grasp, seize; prae before + hendere (used only in comp.). See Get, and cf. Comprise.] 1. To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.
Who hath . . . comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure.
Is. xl. 12.