OCR Text |
Show Co cCoO It is not every man's talent to diftinguith arigh how far our prudence may warrant our charity, and how far our charity may comport with our pru- . L'Eftrange. dence \\! i &Wlm; awith their age, find little difference, fo they ma Locke be doing The malecontented fort That never can the prefent ftate compert But would as often change as they change will Daviel .2, To behave; to carry: with the reciprocal pronoun At years of difcretion, and comport yourfelf a Cungreve's Way of the World this rantipole rate Comro'rT. 7 /. [from the verb.] Behaviour ; conduét ; manner of acting an looking 1 fhall account concerning the rules and manners of deportment in the receiving, our compor and converfation in and after it Faylor's Worthy Communicant I kenow them well, and mark'd their rude comport A i Xn times of tempeft they command alone And he but fits precarious on the throne Dryden's Fables Compro'rRTARLE, adj. [ from comport. Confiftent ; not contradi&tory We caft the rules and cautions of this art int fome comportable method Wotton's ArchiteSure Comro'rRTANCE 7. / [fro comport. Behaviour ; gefture of ceremony Goodly comportance each to other bear And entertain themfelves with court'fies meet Comro'RTMENT 7. [fro Behaviour ; prattice The will of Go Fairy Queen comport. is like a ftraight unalterabl rule or line 5 but the various comportments of th creature eithe thwartin thi rule, or holdin conformity to it, occafion feveral habitudes of thi rule Hale By her ferious and devout comportment on thef folemn occafions, fhe gives an example that is ver often too much wanted Addifon's Freebolder ‘T COMPO'SE. w. a. [compofer, Fr. compono, Latin. 1. To form a maf things together by joirg'ng differen Zeal ought to be compofed of the higheft degree of all pious affeétions, Spratt 2. To place any thing in its proper for and method 1n a peaceful grave my corps compofe. Dryd. Zn How doth the fea exactly cowpofe itfelf to a leve ~ fuperficies, and with the earth make up one fpherical roundnefs Ray 3. To difpofe; to put in the proper ftat for any purpofe 4. To put together a difcourfe or fentence to write as an author He would undertake the journey with him, b which all his fears would be compofed. ~ Clarendon. You, that had taught them to fubdue their foes Could order teach, and their high {p'rits compofe Waller Compofe thy mind Nor frauds are here contriv'd, nor force defign'd their pen Clarendon Words fo pleafing to God as thofe which th Son of God himfelf hath compofed, wer ble for men to frame The gréateft conqueror in this nation manner of the old Grecian Lyricks, di compofe the words of his divine odes, bu fet them to mufick himfelf not pofiiHooker after th not onl generall Addifon 5. To conftitute by being parts of a whole Nor did Ifrael *fcap ‘Th' infetion, when their borrow'd gold compos' - Miltwn's Paradife Loft The calf'in Oreb A few ufeful things, confounded with many tri fles, fill their memories, and compofe their intellectual poflefions Watt 3. A mafs formed by mingling differen ingredients Heat and vivacity, in age, is an excellent compo Prior Bacon's Effays Sition for bufinefs Vaft pillars of ftone, cafed over witha compgfijrz'o 7. To adjuft the mind to any bufinefs, b freeing it from difturbanee Th mind that looks the moft like marble of any thing on being thus difquieted, may not b can imagine Addifor Jove mix'd up all, and his beft clay employ'd Then call'd the happy compofition Floyd Swift able eafily to compofe and fettle itfelf to prayer Duppa's Rules for Dewotion We befeech thee to compofe her thoughts, an preferve her reafon during her ficknefs Swwift 8. To adjuft difference to fettle ters ; to pu 4. The ftate of being compounded ; union conjunétion; combination as, z0 compofe Contemplate things firft in their own fimple na tures, and afterwards view them in compofition wit To arrange the let 9. [With printers. other things compofing ftick 10. [In mufick.] To form a tune fro the different mufical notes CoMrO'sED. participial adj. [from compofe.] Calm ; ferious; even; fedate The difpofition in a pi¢ture is an affembling o many parts ; is alfo called the compofition, by whic is meant the diftribution an #ill more feriou Woiters are divided concerning the authority o the greater part of thofe compofitions that pafs in hi L' Eftrange name "That divine prayer has always been looked upo CoMPO'SEDLY. adv. [ from compofed. Calmly ; ferioufly ; fedately as a compofition fit to have proceeded from the wifef Addifor of men When I read rules of criticifm, I enquire afte the works of the author, and by that means difco= ver what he likes in a compofition A man was walking before the door very ecompofedly without a hat. One crying, Here is th fellow that killed the duke; every body afked which is he ? The man without the hat very compofedly anfwered, I am he Clarendon Sedatenefs; calmnefs - Addifer's Guardiag 7. Adjuftment; regulation [from compofed. A preacher, in the invention of matter, eleGio of words, compofition of gefture, look, pronunciation, motion, ufcth all thefe faculties at once tranquillity He that will think to any purpofe, muft hav fickdnef and compofednefs of humour as wel fmartnefs of parts Comro'sER. 7. /. [from compo/e. Ben Fanfor's Difroveries a 8. Compa& ; agreement ; terms on whic differences are fettled Norris To take away all fuch mutual grievances, inju 1. Anauthor; a writer ries, and wrongs, there was no way but only b going upon compofition and agreement amongf themfelves And again, all publick regiment, o what kind foever, feemeth evidently to have arife from deliberate advice, confultation, and compofition between men, judging it convenient and be Now will be the right feafon of forming them t be able writers and compofers in every excellen matter Milton If the thoughts of fich authors have nothing i them the honef induftry a leaf an d no harm,-an a gpod intention i fhe a the com Thus we are agreed I crave our compofition may be writte Shak. Antony and Cleopat And feal'd between us Their courage droops, and, hopelefs now, the wif For compofition with th' unconquer'd fith. Waller ., For the truth of the theoryd am in no wife con cerned, the compofer of it muft look to that. Woodww For compofition, I prefer next Ludovico, a mof Peachaim on Mufick 9. The a& of difcharging a debt by pay ing part ; the fum paid The compofer has fo exprefled my fenfe, wher I intended to move the paffions, that he feems t have been the poet as well as the compofer Dryden's Albion and Albanius, Preface adj Hooker boveful Addifon's Freebolder 2. He that adapts the mufick to words he that forms a tune Comro'sITE Dryden's Dufrefnoy 6. Written work The Mantuan there in fober triumph fate Compos'd his pofture, and his look fedate Pope 7z / orderly placing o things, both in general and in particular and compofed in the manner of the inhabitants Addifon on Italy ComprosEDNESs Watts 5. The arrangement of various figures i a picture the letters in order in th In Spain there is fomethin z. The aét of bringing fimple ideas int complication : oppofed to analyfis, or th The inveftigation of difficult things, by th method of analyfis, ought ever to precede the method of compofition Neawton's Opticks He, having a full command over the water, ha power to fill and compofe ity as well as to mov and difturb it Weodward Yet, to compofe this midnight noife Go freely fearch where'er you pleafe In the time of the Yncas reign of Peru, n compofition. was allowed by the laws to be ufed i point of medicine, but only fimples proper to eac difeafe Temple feparation of complex notions Dryden judicious and fweet compofer The whole army feemed well compofed to obtai that by their fwords, which they could not b 6. To calm3 to quiet ofer & V 7% CoMPO'RT 1. To bear; to endure. This is a Gallick fignification, not adopted among us G Children, in the things they do, if they compor CO 10. Cenfiftency; congruity ‘There is no compofition in thefe news That gives them credit [compofitus, Latin. -Indeed they are difproportion'd. Shakefp. Othells The compofite order in architeture is the laf of the five orders. of columns; fo named, becauf its capital is compofed out of thofe of the othe orders3 and it is alfo called the Roman and Italick order Harris 11. [In grammar. The joining of tw words together, or the prefixing a particle to another word to augment mathematicks, whic i di minifh, or change its fignification 12. A certain method of demonftration i Some are of opinion, that the compofite pillar of this arch were in imitation of the pillars o Solomon's temple Addifon Comrosi'TioN. #. f.* [compofitio, Latin. 1. The a& of forming an integral of va the reverfe o the analytical method, or of refolution It proceeds upon principles in themfelves felf-evident; on definitions, pof rious diffimilar parts ‘We have exaét forms of compofition, whereby the tulates incorporate almoft as they were natural fimples an axioms an a previoudl demonftrated feries of propofitions, fte Bacow's New Atlantis by |