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<blockquote>His mighty champion, strong beyond <b>compare</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Their small galleys may not hold <b>compare</b> With our tall ships. <i>Waller.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Illustration by comprison; simile.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Rhymes full of protest, of oath, and big <b>compare</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Beyond compare</col>. <cd>See <cref>Beyond comparison</cref>, under <er>Comparison</er>.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Com*pare"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>comparare</ets> to prepare, procure; <ets>com-</ets> + <ets>parare</ets>. See <er>Prepare</er>, <er>Parade</er>.]</ety> <def>To get; to procure; to obtain; to acquire</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>To fill his bags, and richesse to <b>compare</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Com*par"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who compares.</def>

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<hw>Com*par"i*son</hw> <tt>(? &or; ?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>comparaison</ets>, L. <ets>comparatio</ets>. See 1st <er>Compare</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate.</def>

<blockquote>As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear <b>comparison</b> with them. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The miracles of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting points of <b>comparison</b>. <i>Trench.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; <as>as, to bring a thing into <ex>comparison</ex> with another; there is no <ex>comparison</ex> between them.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.</def>

<blockquote>Whereto shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what <b>comparison</b> shall we compare it? <i>Mark iv. 30.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Gram.)</fld> <def>The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; <as>as, <ex>little</ex>, <ex>less</ex>, <ex>least</ex>, are examples of <ex>comparison</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Rhet.)</fld> <def>A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; <i>e</i>.<i>g</i>., the lake sparkled like a jewel.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Phren.)</fld> <def>The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.</def>

<cs><col>Beyond comparison</col>, <cd>so far superior as to have no likeness, or so as to make comparison needless.</cd> -- <mcol><col>In comparison of</col>, <col>In comparison with</col></mcol>, <cd>as compared with; in proportion to. <mark>[Archaic]</mark> "So miserably unpeopled <i>in comparison of<i> what it once was."</cd></cs> <i>Addison.</i> -- <col>Comparison of hands</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>a mode of proving or disproving the genuineness of a signature or writing by comparing it with another proved or admitted to be genuine, in order to ascertain whether both were written by the same person.</cd> <i>Bouvier. Burrill.</i>

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<hw>Com*par"i*son</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To compare.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Wyclif.</i>

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<hw>Com*part"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Comparted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Comparting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>compartiri</ets>; <ets>com-</ets> + <ets>partiri</ets>, <ets>partire</ets> to share, <ets>pars</ets>, <ets>partis</ets>, part, share: cf. OF. <ets>compartir</ets>. See <er>Part</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>To divide; to mark out into parts or subdivisions.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>The crystal surface is <b>comparted</b> all In niches verged with rubies. <i>Glover.</i></blockquote>

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