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Compounder

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828

Part of speech: noun (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. 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.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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