COMPOUNDER

Etymology

Noun

compounder (plural compounders)

A person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result)

One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.

One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.

(UK, archaic) One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.

(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.

Anagrams

• recompound

Source: Wiktionary


Com*pound"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines.

2. One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish, ends by compromises. "Compounder in politics." Burke.

3. One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime. 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.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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RESTORATION

(noun) some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed; “the restoration looked exactly like the original”


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