compounder

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English

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Etymology

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From compound +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kəmˈpaʊndə(ɹ)/

Noun

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compounder (plural compounders)

  1. A person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result)
    a compounder of medicines
  2. One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.
  3. One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
  4. (UK, archaic) One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
    • 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.
  5. (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.

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