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[ To gentil men he was right servisable, And ther with all full good and comp an able . Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2261. Towards his queen he was nothing uxorious, but com- Bacon , Hen. VII., p. 241. paniable and respective. companiablene t, n. [Also comp an able ne ; Ps. cxix. 63. Shak ., Tempest, v. 1. A merry companion is welcome and acceptable to all Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 433. Sw. kompani , in senses 6, 7, 9) = Pr. companhia , compagnia, mod. coumpagna = Sp. comp añía = Pg. companhia = It. compagnia , pania ; cf.companium , and companies , also com- pan is , a me , a company taking meals together (later ML.compagnia , any company), pan is , bread: see pantry . Cf. com- panion1 and comp an age . Hence (from E.) Hind. kampni , (from It.) Turk. qompanya , company.] 11. Friendship; an act pertaining to or befit- ting a friend or companion. This which thou me dost for companye . Chaucer , Troilus, iii. 396. 2. A person or persons conjoined to or as so- ciated with another or others in any way; one or more having or coming into companionship with another or others: as, choose your com- Jones Very , Poems, p. 91. pany carefully; to meet company on the road. How fair that new May morning when I rose Companion of the sun for all the day 21. A fellow; a worthle person. What should the wars do with these jigging fools? Companion , hence! Shak ., J. C., iv. 3. Ford, Fancies, ii. 1. IMG:content-0902.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0903.png:[blocks in formation] Such as the fury of ungovern'd youth Thrust from the company of awful men. Brethren, farewell; your company along I will not wish. 4. An a emblage or consociation of persons or, rarely, of animals; any a ociated or related aggregate, indefinitely. A nation and a company of nations shall be of thee. Gen. xxxv. 11. I have compared thee to a company of horses. Cant. i. 9. Forbear till this company be pa ed. Shak., L. L. L., 1. 2. 5. A body of persons a ociated for friendly intercourse, conversation, or pleasure: as, a small company to dinner. Specifically-(a) Guests at a person's house; persons entertained: often used of a single person. I believe, Lady Sneer well, here's company coming. Sheridan , School for Scandal, i. 1. A crowd is not company , and faces are but a gallery of pictures, where there is no love. Bacon , Friendship. Conversation with the best company of both sexes. Dryden. obligations incurred by the company to to a specific amount, as the amount of capital subscribed by each member. - Livery companies, guilds of London founded in the middle ages: so called on account of their adoption of particular liveries or costumes. - Ship's company, the men and officers of a ship. - To bear (any one) company, to accompany; attend; go with. His faithful dog shall bear him company . Pope, E ay on Man, i. 112. To be good company, to be an agreeable companion.- To keep company, to consort together. Day and night did we keep company . Shak ., T. N., v. 1. To keep (a person) company. (a) To accompany; at- tend; a ociate with; remain with for companionship. Well, keep me company but two years more, Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue. Shak ., M. of V., i. 1. (6) To a ociate with as a lover or suitor. - To keep com- pany with. (a) To a ociate with; make a companion of; accompany. Thou see'st my love, that will keep company With thee in tears; hide nothing, then, from me. Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company . Swift , Conversation. 6. A number of persons united for performing or carrying on anything jointly: as, a company of players; an insurance company ; the East India Company . In busine , a company is generally composed of a considerable number of shareholders, who delegate the control of its affairs to certain officers; a comparablene (kom'pa-ra-bl-nes), n. A man comparable with any of the captains of that age. Knolles, Hist. Turks. In his a umption of infallibility, and his measures for enforcing conformity, Calvin was a pope comparable with any who i ued bulls from the Vatican. H. Spencer , Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVIII. 369. The smaller a ociation, each of whose members shares in its management, or invests capital in it by special contract, comparably (kom pa-ra-bli), adv . In a man- is called a partnership . 7. A member or the members of a firm so des- ignated without being named in the style or title of the firm: usually abbreviated when written: as, Me rs. Smith & Co. -8. More spe- cifically, in London, an ancient guild or inc or- poration of trade: as, "high in office in the Goldsmiths' company ," Dickens .-9. Milit ., a subdivision of an infantry regiment or battal- ion, corresponding to a troop of cavalry or a battery of artillery, consisting of from 60 to 100 men, and commanded by a captain. In the British army the company is subdivided into four sec- tions, and each company has its own arms and accoutre- ment chest, and keeps its own books. In the United States army infantry companies in time of war are ex- pected to show about 100 men. A regiment of infantry has 10 companies, and each company has a captain and two lieutenants. In the German army a company num- bers about 250 men, under a captain, who is mounted. 10. Naut .: (a) The crew of a ship, including the officers. (b) A fleet. -111. A number or collection of things. [Rare.] Companies Act, an English statute of 1862, frequently management, and winding up of busine a ociations other than partnerships. Companies' Clauses Act, an Eng- lish statute of 1845 (8 and 9 Vict., c. 16), embodying the provisions relating to the constitution and management of corporations, usually included in acts creating such corporations, for the purpose of avoiding the nece ity of repeating them in future legislation and of insuring uni- for mity. - Company fund. See fund. - Company of moneyers. See moneyer . - Independent company, a small body of irregular or militia soldiers, under a cap- tain, not attached to any regiment. Limited company, or company limited, a company formed under a law limiting the liability of its members for the debts and comparative At the first attainable period of our knowledge of it (language), whether by actual record or by the inferences of the comparative student, it is in a state of almost endle subdivision. Whitney, Life and Growth of Lang., p. 175. 4. Having the power of comparing; capable of noting similarities and differences. Beauty is not known by an eye or nose: it consists in a symmetry, and it is the comparative faculty which notes it. Glanville, Scep. Sci. 5. In gram., implying comparison; denoting a higher degree of a quality, relation, etc., as belonging to one object or set of objects as compared with another. Applied to derived adjective-forms like greater, smaller, blacker, or (much more rarely) to adverb-forms like oftener, sooner; such are called comparative adjectives or adverbs, or they are said to be in or of the comparative degree; the primitives great, often, etc., being called, in relation to them, positives, or of the positive degree, and the derived forms greatest, oftenest, etc., superlatives, or of the superlative degree. See these words, and comparison. Comparative anatomy. See anatomy. - Comparative clause, a clause introduced by or containing a comparative conjunction.-- Comparative conjunction, a conjunction expre ing equality or difference of degree. The comparative conjunctions are as (preceded by a correlative so or another as, or used in combinations, for instance, just as, in the same measure as, as if, etc.) and than. - Comparative grammar. See gram mar.- Comparative inference, in logic, an inference which compares two terms with each other by comparing each with a third or middle term. - Comparative method, philology, psychology, etc. See the nouns. Comparative question, in logic, a question that asks which of two subjects po e es a given character in the higher degree. II. n. 11. One who makes comparisons or sarcasms; one who affects wit; a scoffer. Gave his countenance To laugh at gibing boys, and stand the push Of every beardle vain comparative . Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iii. 2. 21. One who is equal or pretends to be an equal; a rival; a competitor. Gerard ever was His full comparative . Beau. and Fl., Four Plays in One. 3. In gram., the comparative degree, or a word expre ing it. See I., 5.