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compounder
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compounder, n.
- One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines. [1913 Webster]
- One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises. Burke. [1913 Webster]
- One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime. [1913 Webster]"Religious houses made compounders
For the horrid actions of their founders." [1913 Webster] - One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take. A. Wood. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
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