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Show co CO &. 'The ftate of a companion; the a&t o accompanying ; converfation ; fellow ip tion be perfuaded to follow folitarinefs Nor will I wretched the In death forfake, but keep thee comparty Dryden's Fables V Abdallah grew by degrees fo enamoured of he converfation, that he did not thin he lived whe he was not in company with his beloved Balfora Guardian 5. A number of perfons united for th execution or performance of any thing a band Shakefpeare was an actor, when there were feve companies of players in the town together. Dennis 6. Perfons united in a joint trade or partnerthip 9. A number of fome particular rank o profeffion unite by fom charter body corporate; a fubordinate corpora. tion This emperor feems to have been the firft wh incorporated the feveral trades of Rom panies, with their particular privileges into corm Arbutbnot on Coins 8. A fubdivifion of a regiment of foot; { many as are under one captain Every captain brought with him thrice fo man in his company as was expeed Kuolles's Hiftory of the Turks Z0 bear Comrany. ] To accompa* 1 90 keep Company. § ny; to affociate with; to be companion to I do defire the To bear me company, and go with me Shake/p Thofe Indian wives are loving fools, and ma - do well to keep company with the Arrias and Portia of old Rome Dryden Admitted to that equal fky His faithful dog fhall bear him company Pape's Effay on Man Why fhould he call her whore ? Who Zeeps he company Shakelpeare's Othello Zo keep Company To frequen houfes of entertainment 11, Sometimes in an ill fenfe 70 Co'MPANY. @, a, [from the noun.] T 10 accompany ; to attend ; tobe companio to ; to be aflociated with Ia The foldier that did company thefe three Shakefpeare's Cymbeline Thus, through what path foe'er of life we rove Rage companies our hate, and grief our loves Prior 7o Co'MPANY. v. 1. To aflociate one's felf with 2. To be a gay companion 1 Core V4 Q Obfolete For there thou'needs muft learn to laugh, to lye To face, to forge, to feoff; to company Spenfer's Hubberd's Tale Co'MPARABLE. adj. [from To compare. Worthy to be compared ; of equal regard ; worthy to contend for preference This prefent world affordeth not any thing comparable unto the publick duties of religion. Hooker A man comparable with any of the captains o that age, an excellent foldier both by fea and land Knolles's Hifbory of the Turks . There is no blefling of life comparable to the en Joyment of a difcreet and virtuous friend Addifor's Spectator Co'MparanLY. adv. [from comparable. In a manner or degree worthy to b compared would be calm and quict trouble it 3. Whe Thou wert dignified enough Ev'n to the point of envy, if 'twere mad Comparative for your virtues, to be ftile . The under hangman of his realm. Shak. Cymbeline There refteth the comparative, that is, grante that it is either lawful or binding; yet whethe To compar Milton's Par. Reg Small things awith greateft He carv'd in ivory fuch a maid fo fair As nature coul If he compare he will find tha almoft word fo 2. Having the power of comparing different things Beauty is not known by an eye or nofe; it confifts in a fymmetry, and it is the comparative faculty which notes it. Glanwille's Scepfis Scientifica 3. [In grammar.] The comparative degree exprefles more of any quantity i . one thing than in another; as, the righ hand is the ftronger CoMPARATIVELY. adv. [from comparative. I ftat of comparifon cording to eftimate mad fon ; not pofitively ac But, both from back and belly, £till did fpar To fill his bags, and riches to compare. Fairy 2 Comra'RE. 7. /. [from the verb. 1. The ftate of being compared ; comparative eftimate; comparifon ; poflibilit of entering into comparifon There I the rareft things have feen Suckling Oh, things without compare As their fmall galleys may not hold compar Waller With our tall fhips _ Beyond compare the Son of God was fee 2. Simile; fimilitude; illuftration by com parifon True fwains in love fhally in the world to comes Approv The good or evil, which is removed, may b efteemed good or evil comparatively, and not pofitively or fimply Bacon ratively with other things of its kind, or with th evil mingled in its compofition; fo he is a goo man that is better than men commonly are, or i whom the good qualities are more than the bad Temple The vegetables being comparatively lighter tha the ordinar fided laft Bu terreftrial matte how few 7o COMPA'RE CoMP a. [comparo, Latin. 2. The ftate of being compared If we wiil rightly eftimate what we call goo and evil, we fhall find it lies much in comparifon Locke greater than thofe of a larger fize that are mor remote; and fo it is with pleafure and pain: th prefent is apt to carry it, and thofe at a diftanc Locke have the difadvantage in the comparifon 3. A comparative eftimate ; proportion. If men would live as religion requires, the world would be a moft lovely and defirable place, in zomparifon of what now it is Tillotfon One can fcarcé imagine how fo plentiful a {oi fhould become fo miferably unpeopled, in comparifon of what it once was. Addif. Remarks on Italy 4. A fimile in writing or {peaking ; an i luftration by fimilitude As fair and as good a kind of hand in hand comparifon, had been fomething too fair and too goo taken the pains to compare one, two, and three, t for any lady Locke 2. It may be obferved, that when the comparifon intends only fimilitude or illuftration by likenefs, we ufe 70 before th thing brought for illuftration ; as, h compared anger to a fire Shakefpeare 5. [In grammar.] The formation of an ad jective through its various degrees of fignification ; as, flrong, fironger, firongeft are compared together, and fo the abfent confidere as future near our view are apt to be though Obje& They meafuring themfelves by themfelves;~an comparing themfelves among themfelves, are no fix, cannot chufe but know they are equal. Locke Thus much of the wrong judgment men mak of prefent and future pleafure and pain, when the R1SON. 7. /. [comparaifon, French. Our autho gedy ; for he fays, that herein he is to imitate th Dryden tragick poet thing, by obferving how it differs fro fomething elfe petual tumalts, of a malicious and revengefu fpirit Tillotfon He that has got the ideas of numbers, and hat thei his parts with thof among them, whic alion: fo eafy it i far to make it good Grew's Mufeun. faves me the comparifon with tra or badnefs, or other qualities, of any on wife 2607 % 12 No man can think it grievous, who confider the pleafure and. fweetnefs of love, and the gloriou vi€tory of overcoming evil with good; and the compares thefe with the reftlefs torment, and per whe Natalis Comes, comparin of a man, reckons his claw are much more like thofe o to drive on the comparifon to 1. To make one thing the meafure of another ; to eftimate the relative goodnef I will hear Brutus fpeak emm I will hear Caflius, and compare their reafons Troilus 1. The aé of comparing comparatively, are the inftance b Full of proteft, and oath, and big compare Shakefp. Troilus and Creffida Want fimilies of the globe, fub Rogers their truth rhimes Woodward of this wife application Milton's Paradife Lof? Moft glorious by compari In this world, whatever is called good, is compa not wwith his art compare. Dryden this tranflation with the original the three firft ftanzas are rendere word Addifon's Spectator 4. To compare is in Spenfer ufed after th Latin comparo, for to get; to procure to obtain Bentley to the top Shake/p. Macbeth With my confinelefs harms other things be not to be preferred before the ex This bubble, by reafon of its comparative levit to the fluid that inclofes it, would neceffarily afcen two perfons or things are com Black Macbet Will feem as pure as fnow, being compar' not abfolute remove of it, to give place to the fruit, be a comBacon parative good if the winds did no Bacon's Apophthegms tion of any quality, with is ufed befor the thing ufed as a meafure 1. Eftimated by comparifon; not pofitive Bacon tirpation of herefies The blofflom is a pofitive good; although th for that the fe pared, to difcever their relative propor another ComPr A RATIVE, adj. [comparativus, Lat. S}J[I.('{/_‘{JL'(H‘E I wrote to you not to company with fornicators tors and counfellors to the winds Wotton's Architeure CoMPA'RATES 7 / [fro compare. I Itp is more pleafant to enjoy the company of hi logick th tw thing compare t on t d wo fu b th ds that can fpeak fuch wo Sidney Solon esmpared the people unto the fea, and ora There could no form for fuch a royal ufe b comparably imagined, like that of the forefaid na 7 COMPART. «. a. [compartir, Fr from con and partior, Lat.] To divide to mark out a general defign into its.va rious parts and fubdivifions I maké hafte to the cafting and comparting o 3}";:{gn's ArchiteSdure the whole work CoMpa'RT1 |