Compounder
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kəmˈpaʊndə(ɹ)/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Compounder is a noun meaning A person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result).
Meaning
A person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result).
More Meanings
- One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.
- One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
- (UK, archaic) One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
- (UK, historical) 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.
Example Sentences
Compounders in politics.
a compounder of medicines
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.
Word Forms
- compounders
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include formulator, compilator, mixer, potioner, intermixer, concoctor.
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