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v. i. [ F. comparoir, L. comparēre; com- + parēre to appear. ] 1. To appear. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To appear in court personally or by attorney. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ OE. comper, through French fr. L. compar; com- + par equal. See Peer an equal, and cf. 1st Compare. ] An equal, as in rank, age, prowess, etc.; a companion; a comrade; a mate. [ 1913 Webster ]

And him thus answer'd soon his bold compeer. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

His compeer in arms. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To be equal with; to match. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In my rights,
By me invested, he compeers the best. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. i. See Compear. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Compelled p. pr. & vb. n. Compelling. ] [ L. compellere, compulsum, to drive together, to compel, urge; com- + pellere to drive: cf. OF. compellir. See Pulse. ] 1. To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wolsey . . . compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

And they compel one Simon . . . to bear his cross. Mark xv. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Commissions, which compel from each
The sixth part of his substance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

I compel all creatures to my will. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To gather or unite in a crowd or company. [ A Latinism ] “In one troop compelled.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To call forth; to summon. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

She had this knight from far compelled. Spenser.

Syn. -- To force; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce. See Coerce. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make one yield or submit. “If she can not entreat, I can compel.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being compelled or constrained. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By compulsion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. compellatio, fr. compellare to accost, fr. compellere. See Compel. ] Style of address or salutation; an appellation. “Metaphorical compellations.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

He useth this endearing compellation, “My little children.” Bp. Beveridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

The peculiar compellation of the kings in France is by “Sire, ” which is nothing else but father. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Gram.) The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to compel; compulsory. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who compels or constrains. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A compendium; an epitome; a summary. [ 1913 Webster ]

A compend and recapitulation of the Mosaical law. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. compendiarius. ] Short; compendious. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. compendiatus, p. p. of compendiare to shorten, fr. compendium. ] To sum or collect together. [ Obs. ] Bp. King. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. compendiosus. ] Containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized. [ 1913 Webster ]

More compendious and expeditious ways. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Three things be required in the oration of a man having authority -- that it be compendious, sententious, and delectable. Sir T. Elyot.

Syn. -- Short; summary; abridged; condensed; comprehensive; succinct; brief; concise. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a compendious manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Compendiously expressed by the word chaos. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being compendious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. E. Compendiums L. Compendia [ L. compendium that which is weighed, saved, or shortened, a short way, fr. compendere to weigh; com- + pendere to weigh. See Pension, and cf. Compend. ] A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary. [ 1913 Webster ]

A short system or compendium of a science. I. Watts.

Syn. -- See Abridgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. receiving money for services rendered.
Syn. -- paying(prenominal), remunerative, salaried, stipendiary. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. qualifying one for receipt of compensation, such as for a bodily injury; as, a compensable injury. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Compensated; p. pr. & vb. n. Compensating. ] [ L. compensatus, p. p. of compensare, prop., to weigh several things with one another, to balance with one another, verb intens. fr. compendere. See Compendium. ] 1. To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for. [ 1913 Webster ]

The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries. Prior.

Syn. -- To recompense; remunerate; indemnify; reward; requite; counterbalance. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. receiving or eligible for compensation.
Syn. -- remunerated, salaried, stipendiary. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. compensatio a weighing, a balancing of accounts. ] 1. The act or principle of compensating. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense. [ 1913 Webster ]

The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) (a)The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off. Bouvier. Wharton. (b) A recompense or reward for some loss or service. (c) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Compensation balance, or
Compensated balance, a kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different metals having different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement. --
Compensation pendulum. See Pendulum.

Syn. -- Recompense; reward; indemnification; consideration; requital; satisfaction; set-off. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. compensativus. ] Affording compensation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Compensation. [ R. ] Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) An iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving for compensation; making amends. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. compenser. See Compensate. ] To compensate. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. comperendinatus, p. p. of comperendinare to defer (the time of trial.) ] To delay. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. compescere. ] To hold in check; to restrain. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Competed; p. pr. & vb. n. Competing. ] [ L. completere, competitum; com- + petere to seek. See Petition. ] To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rival statesmen, with eyes fixed on America, were all the while competing for European alliances. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Cf. F. compétence, from L. competentia agreement. ] 1. The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power. [ 1913 Webster ]

The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

To make them act zealously is not in the competence of law. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,
Lie in three words -- health, peace, and competence. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) (a) Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence. (b) Right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually, especially possession of the skill and knowledge required (for a task). [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. [ F. compétent, p. pr. of compéter to be in the competency of, LL. competere to strive after together, to agree with; hence, to be fit. See Compete. ] 1. Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit. “A competent knowledge of the world.” Atterbury. “Competent age.” Grafton. “Competent statesmen.” Palfrey. /“A competent witness.” Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to. [ Rare, except in legal usage. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That is the privilege of the infinite Author of things, . . . but is not competent to any finite being. Locke.

Syn. -- See Qualified. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a competent manner; adequately; suitably. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Compatible; suitable; consistent. [ Obs. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. competition. See Compete. ] The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competition. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no competition but for the second place. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where competition does not act at all there is complete monopoly. A. T. Hadley.

Syn. -- Emulation; rivalry; rivalship; contest; struggle; contention; opposition; jealousy. See Emulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an agressive willingness to compete.
Syn. -- fight. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L.: cf. F. compétiteur. ] 1. One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival. [ 1913 Webster ]

And can not brook competitors in love. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An associate; a confederate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Every hour more competitors
Flock to their aid, and still their power increaseth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Acting in competition; competing; rival. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who competes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] A competitress. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. incompétence. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality or state of being incompetent; lack of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; lack of qualifications or training (for a particular task); insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child for hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts. “Some inherent incompetency.” Gladstone.
Syn. -- incompetence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Lack of competency or legal fitness; incapacity; disqualification, as of a person to be heard as a witness, or to act as a juror, or of a judge to try a cause.

Syn. -- Inability; insufficiency; inadequacy; disqualification; incapability; unfitness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incompetens: cf. F. incompétent. See In- not, and Competent. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Incompetent to perform the duties of the place. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence; a mentally defective person is incompetent to care for himself and requires a legal guardian. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Richard III. had a resolution, out of hatred to his brethren, to disable their issues, upon false and incompetent pretexts, the one of attainder, the other of illegitimation. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible.

Syn. -- Incapable; unable; inadequate; insufficient; inefficient; disqualified; unfit; improper. -- Incompetent, Incapable. Incompetent is a relative term, denoting a lack of the requisite qualifications for performing a given act, service, etc.; incapable is absolute in its meaning, denoting lack of power, either natural or moral. We speak of a man as incompetent to a certain task, of an incompetent judge, etc. We say of an idiot that he is incapable of learning to read; and of a man distinguished for his honor, that he is incapable of a mean action. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an competent manner; inadequately; unsuitably. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Incompatibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Incompatible. [ 1913 Webster ]