† compilementn.
/kəmˈpʌɪlmənt/ Obsolete.
1.
a. The compiling (of a literary work, etc.).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > compiling (a work)
compilationc1430
bookmakingc1450
compiling1487
compilement1656
book-building1782
scissoring1822
1656 H. More Enthusiasmus Triumphatus A 6 a After the whole compilement whereof.
1657 J. Howell Londinopolis Advt. to Rdr. Though the method, the style, and compilement be his.
1676 Pacquet Advices to Men of Shaftesbury 32 His Lordship was no stranger to its compilement.
b. The action of constructing or building up.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [noun]
bigginga1325
rearinga1325
buildingc1394
edifying1432
upbringing1484
rising?a1500
upmaking1513
upbigging1525
edification1549
erecting1553
structure1604
erection1614
compilementa1639
architecture1646
exstruction1652
built1654
edifice1663
fabric1730
upbuilding1732
builth1805
a1639 H. Wotton Surv. Educ. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) Ded. How I could build a man; for there is a moral as well as a natural or artificial compilement, and of better materials.
2.
a. concrete. That which is compiled, a compilation.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun]
compilation1426
recueil?1473
aggregatorya1500
gatheringa1530
centiloquium1653
compilement1665
polygraph1882
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 Ep. Ded. 1 The Intimation of large Compilements.
1729 J. Swift Let. to Bolingbroke 5 Apr. in Lett. Dr. Swift (1741) 103 The compilements of Grævius and Gronovius, which make thirty-one volumes in folio.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 150 That tesselated compilement..well known by the title of La Morte d'Arthur.
b. A structure.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > [noun] > a structure
machine1545
framework1578
compact1600
fabrication1602
machination1605
compound1607
structure1612
compilement1624
fabric1633
contignation1635
artifice1700
mechanism1712
creel1788
composition1793
arrangement1800
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 4 I found it fitter for my pen..to deal with these plain Compilements and tractable Materials.
c. A collection, accumulation.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > mass formed by collection of particles > an accumulation
accumulation1490
amass1567
compile1595
compilement1655
collection1697
lodgement1739
cumulation1892
pile-up1937
1655 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 2) App. xiii. 397 This compilement of Aery or Fiery particles.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. ii. 63 A compilement of all Imaginable Attributes of Honour, Courtship, and Complement.
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