comprisal (kompriʻzal)

[ A comprisal and sum of all wickedne . Barrow, Works, I. xviii. comprise (kom-priz'), v. t.; pret. and pp. com prised, ppr. comprising. [ separate states. IMG:content-0953.png:[blocks in formation] caused by continued growth and development. Speed study siol., p. 396. 3. That which results from, or is founded on, such an agreement or settlement, as a specific arrangement, a course of conduct, or an institution; a medium between two rival courses, plans, etc.: as, his conduct was a compromise between his pride and his poverty. mAlmost Almost all people descend to meet. meet.st. All a ociation and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other. Emerson, Friendship. 4. A thing partaking of and blending the qualities, forms, or uses of two other and different things: as, a mule is a compromise between a horse and an a ; a sofa is a compromise between a chair and a bed. [Colloq.] - Compromise Act, a United States statute of 1833 (4 Stat., 629), so called because containing a basis of agreement between the opposing parties in Congre concerning import duties. It provided for the reduction of all such duties above 20 per cent. by taking off one tenth of the exce every two years until 1842, when the whole exce was to cease.Compromise of 1850, an agreement embodied in acts of Congre whereby, on the one hand, the slave-trade was abolished in the District of Columbia, and California was admitted as a free State, while, on the other hand, a more stringent fugitive-slave law was established, and the Territories of Utah and New Mexico were organized with no restriction to slavery. Crittenden com promise, an arrangement proposed in te by Senator Crittenden of Kentucky, in order to avert civil war. Its leading terms were that slavery should be permanently forbidden in territories north of lat. 36° 30 N., and permanently recognized in territories south of that line. - Mi ouri compromise, an agreement embodied in a clause of the act of Congre admitting Mi ouri as one of the United States, March 6th, 1820 (3 Stat., 548, c. 22, § 8), by which it was enacted that in all the territory ceded by France, known as Louisiana, north of 36° 30' north latitude, excepting Mi ouri, slavery should be forever prohibited. Upon this conce ion by the proslavery party in Congre , Mi ouri was admitted as a slave State. Its repeal in 1854, in the act for the admi ion of Kansas (10 Stat., 289, c. 59, § 32), led to disturbances of considerable historical importance in Kansas. compromise (kom'prō-mīz), v.; pret. and pp. compromised, ppr. compromising. [ conce ions. IMG:content-0954.png:[blocks in formation] Laban and himself were comp rom is'd , That all the eanlings which were streak'd and pied Should fall as Jacob's hire. Shak., M. of V., i. 3. 3. To expose to risk or hazard, or to serious consequences, as of suspicion or scandal, by some act or declaration; prejudice; endanger the reputation or the interests of: often used reflexively: as, he compromised himself by his rash statements. [A recent meaning, for which comp rom it was formerly used.] To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances, Motley, John Randolph was a frequent correspondent of Monroe. He urges him to come back from England; he guards him against comp rom it ment to men in whom he cannot wholly confide. D. C. Gilman, Monroe, p. 33. comprovincialt (kom-pro-vin's hal), a . and n. [= F. Sp. comprovincial , comprovincial is , com- , together, + provincia , province.] I. a . Belonging to or contained in the same prov- ince; provincially connected or related. Six Islands, comprovinciall In auncient times unto great Britaince. Spenser, F. Q., III. iii. 32. A bishop could not be tried by a metropolitan without the presence of his comprovincial bishops. Quoted in R. W. Dixon's Hist. Church of Eng., xix., note. II. n. One belonging to the same province or archiepiscopal jurisdiction. When the people is urgent for the speedy institution of a bishop, if any of the com provincials be wanting, he must be certified by the primate "that the multitude require a pastor." Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 186. Compsognatha (komp-sog'nā-tha), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. of compsognathus, adj.: see Compsogna thus.] A suborder of reptiles, of the order Orni thoscelida, established for the reception of the genus Compsognathus.