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▪ I. † comˈpack, v. Obs. rare.
[Variant of compact v., prob. mainly phonetic, but perh. partly due to erroneous association with pack v.]
1. = compact v.1; to pack together, combine.
1584T. Hudson Judith 1. in Sylvester Du Bartas (1621) 696 Children..mo then Northren windes..Of Cyrene sands in numbers can compack. 1605Sylvester Du Bartas i. vi. (1605–7) 1. 221 Th' Art of Man not onely can compack Features and formes that life and motion lack.
2. = compact v.2; to enter into a compact, league.
a1618Sylvester Du Bartas, Decay (1621) 496 Winter-Storms with absent Stars compack, With th' angry Waters to conspire her wrack.
▪ II. compack
corrupt form of compact ppl. a. |