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<h1>Compendiously</h1> <Xpage=289>

<hw>Com*pen"di*ous*ly</hw>, <tt>dv.</tt> <def>In a compendious manner.</def>

<blockquote><b>Compendiously</b> exressed by the word chaos. <i>Bentley.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Compendiousness</h1> <Xpage=289>

<hw>Com*pen"di*ous*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state or quality of being compendious.</def>

<h1>Compendium</h1> <Xpage=289>

<hw>Com*pen"di*um</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. E. <plw>Compendiums</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>, L. <plw>Compendia</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[L. <ets>compendium</ets> that which is wieghed, saved, or shortened, a short way, fr. <ets>compendere</ets> to weigh; <ets>com-</ets> + <ets>pendere</ets> to weigh. See <er>Pension</er>, and cf. <er>Compend</er>.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>A short system or <b>compendium</b> of a sience. <i>I. Watts.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- See Abridgment.</syn>

<h1>Compensate</h1> <Xpage=289>

<hw>Com"pen*sate</hw> <tt>(? &or; ?; 277)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Compensated</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Compensating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>compensatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>compensare</ets>, prop., to weigh several things with one another, to balance with one another, verb intens. fr. <ets>compendere</ets>. See Compendum.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; <as>as, to <ex>compensate</ex> a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.</def>

<blockquote>The length of the night and the dews thereof do <b>compensate</b> the heat of the day. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The pleasures of life do not <b>compensate</b> the miseries. <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To recompense; remunerate; indemnify; reward; requite; counterbalance.</syn>

<h1>Compensate</h1> <Xpage=289>

<hw>Com"pen*sate</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by <i>for</i>; <as>as, nothing can <ex>compensate</ex> for the loss of reputation</as>.</def>

<h1>Compensation</h1> <Xpage=289>

<hw>Com`pen*sa"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>compensatio</ets> a weighing, a balancing of accounts.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or principle of compensating.</def>

<i>Emerson.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest <b>compensation</b> to the dispossessed owners. <i>Hallam.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>No pecuniary <b>compensation</b> can possibly reward them. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd><def>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.</def> <i>Bouvier. Wharton.</i> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A recompense or reward for some loss or service.</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real eatate, in which it is customary to privide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of <i>compensation</i>.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>Compensation balance</col>, <i>or<i> <col>Compensated balance</col>, <cd>a kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement.</cd> -- <col>Compensation pendulum</col>. <cd>See <er>Pendulum</er>.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Recompense; reward; indemnification; consideration; requital; satisfaction; set-off.</syn>

<h1>Compensative</h1> <Xpage=289>

<hw>Com*pen"sa*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>compensativus</ets>.]</ety> <def>Affording compensation.</def>