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▪ I. comˈpounding, vbl. n.
In 4–6 compown-, compouning.
The action of the vb. compound in its various senses. Committee for Compounding (17th c.): see compound v. 15 b.; compounding of felony: see compound v. 9.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xvi. (1495) 323 Compownynge of contrary thynges is welle of corrupcion. c1529Wolsey in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 103 II. 5 In the makyng and compownyng whereof. 1542Boorde Dyetary xiii. (1870) 266 What they dyd gomble togyther without trewe compoundynge. 1601Deacon & Walker (title), Dialogicall Discourses of Spirits and Divels..for the peacable compounding of the late strong Controversies. 1709Swift Adv. Relig. Wks. 1755 II. i. 99 Like a sort of compounding between virtue and vice. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. x. 134 Compounding of felony..formerly was held to make a man an accessory: but is now punished only with fine and imprisonment. a1845Hood Tale Trumpet ix, Deaf to verbs, and all their compoundings.
▪ II. comˈpounding, ppl. a.
That compounds; † constituent, component (obs.).
1571Digges Pantom. iv. x. Y ij, The side of dodecaedron..hauing the squares of his names or compounding lynes in proportion. 1672Grew Anat. Plants, Idea Philos. Hist. §9 Of their Compounding Parts. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. i. 17 The extreme Smallness of the compounding Vessels. 1757E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Fr. (1767) I. 41 Like a compounding creditor, you must accept of quantity for quality. |