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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.
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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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