2. To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
The controversy may easily be compromised.
Fuller.
3. To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can
not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances.
Motley.
Compromise
(Com"pro*mise), v. i.
1. To agree; to accord. [Obs.]
2. To make concession for conciliation and peace.
Compromiser
(Com"pro*mi`ser) n. One who compromises.
Compromissorial
(Com`pro*mis*so"ri*al) a. Relating to compromise. [R.] Chalmers.
Compromit
(Com"pro*mit`) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compromitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Compromitting.] [L.
compromittere. See Compromise, n.]
1. To pledge by some act or declaration; to promise. State Trials
2. To put to hazard, by some indiscretion; to endanger; to compromise; as, to compromit the honor or the
safety of a nation.
Comprovincial
(Com`pro*vin"cial) a. Belonging to, or associated in, the same province. [Obs.] — n.
One who belongs to the same province. [Obs.]
The six islands, comprovincial
In ancient times unto Great Britain.
Spenser.
Compsognathus
(||Comp*sog"na*thus) n. [NL., fr. Gr. kompo`s elegant, pretty + gna`qos jaw.] (Zoöl.)
A genus of Dinosauria found in the Jurassic formation, and remarkable for having several birdlike features.
Compt
(Compt) n. [F. compte. See Count an account.] Account; reckoning; computation. [Obs.] Shak.
Compt
(Compt), v. t. [F. compter. See Count, v. t.] To compute; to count. [Obs.] See Count.
Compt
(Compt), a. [L. comptus, p. p. of comere to care for, comb, arrange, adorn.] Neat; spruce.
[Obs.] Cotgrave.
Compter
(Compt"er) n. A counter. [Obs.] Shak.
Compte rendu
(||Compte" ren`du) [F.] A report of an officer or agent.
Comptible
(Compt"i*ble) a. [See Compt, v. t.] Accountable; responsible; sensitive. [Obs.]
I am very comptible even to the least sinister usage.
Shak.
Comptly
(Compt"ly) adv. Neatly. [Obs.] Sherwood.
Comptrol
(Comp*trol") n. & v. See Control.
Comptroler
(Comp*trol"er) n. A controller; a public officer whose duty it is to examine certify accounts.
