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compounder en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kəmˈpaʊndə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From compound + -er.

Meanings

1. A person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result)
   • a compounder of medicines
2. One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.
   • Compounders in politics. 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
3. One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
   • Religious houses made compounders / For the horrid actions of their founders. 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
4. (UK, archaic) One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
   • 1691–92, Anthony Wood (antiquary), Athenæ Oxonienses The first of these two was a compounder, the other who was an accumulator, was lately made provost of Trin. coll. near Dublin, and on the 31st of March 1692 was nominated bish. of Kilmore.
5. (UK, 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.

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Deriveds

noncompounder