Meaning of Compounder | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result)
2. One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.
3. One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
4. One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
   UK, archaic
5. 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.
   UK, historical

Equivalents

Examples

“a compounder of medicines”

“Compounders in politics.”

“Religious houses made compounders / For the horrid actions of their founders.”

“1691–92, Anthony Wood (antiquary), Athenæ Oxonienses The first of these two was a compounder, the other who was an accumulator, was lately made provost of Trin. coll. near Dublin, and on the 31st of March 1692 was nominated bish. of Kilmore.”

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