Meaning

The act of putting together; assembly..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act of putting together; assembly.
2. A mixture or compound; the result of composing.
3. The proportion of different parts to make a whole.
4. The general makeup of a thing or person.
5. (chess) A puzzle created by the composer using chess pieces on a chessboard, which presents the solver with a particular task.
6. (obsolete) An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce.
7. (obsolete) A payment of money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling or fine.
8. (law) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.

Example Sentences

Ste. What do'st thou know me for? Kent. A Knave, a Rascall, [...] one that would'st be a Baud in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a Kave, Begger, Coward, Pandar, and the Sonne and Heire of a Mungrill Bitch, one whom I will beate in to clamours whining, if thou deny'st the least sillable of thy addition.

The firſt day of November was dedicated to the angel preſiding over fruits, ſeeds, &c. and was therefore named la mas ubhal, that is, the day of the apple fruit, and being pronounced lamasool, the English have corrupted the name to lambswool, a name they give to a compoſition made on this eve of roaſted apples, ſugar, and ale.

And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord.

John of Gaunt. O how that name befits my composition! Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old: Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast; And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?

It seemed that the milk of human kindness had not been left out of his composition.

Discussion acknowledged the Network's difficulty in transforming its mostly white composition into a more multi-racial organization.

It will stoope and yeeld upon better compositions to him that shall make head against it.

If the Duke, with the other dukes, come not to composition with the king of Hungary, why then all the dukes fall upon the king.

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