Compos itæ (kompozite)

pl. pl. [NL., fem. pl. (sc. Ascidiæ, q. v.) of L. compos it us, compound: see composite.] In zoöl., a family of compound ascidians, corresponding to the family Botryllida; Syn ascidia (which see). composite (kom-poz'it or kom'po-zit), m'po-zit), a. and n. [ Happine , like air and water,... is composite . Landor . The method of Tennyson may be termed composite or idyllic: the former, as a proce that embraces every variety of rhythm and technical effect; the latter, as e entially descriptive. Stedman, Vict. Poets, p. 5. Specifically-2. Made of parts so combined as to lose their distinctive characters. [Rare.] 3. [cap.] In arch., an epithet applied to the last of the five orders, because the capital which characterizes it is composed from those of other orders, borrowing a quarter round from the Tus can or Roman Doric, a rank of leaves from the Corinthian, and volutes from the Ionic. Its cornice has simple modillions or dentils. It is also called the Roman or the Italic order. IMG:content-0944.png:[blocks in formation] 1152 riation in the species or other subdivisions which constitute it: often applied to artificial groups composed of widely separated elements. Composite algebra, one separable into two, such that every two units belonging one to one algebra and the other to the other, and neither common to the two, when multiplied together give zero. - Composite arch, the lancet or pointed arch, in some forms: so called because the sides are not arcs of circles, but are described each from two centers. This style of arch is more usual in the medieval architecture of England than in that of the conti nent of Europe. See cut under lancet. - Composite beam, carriage, group. See the nouns. - Composite joint, in entom., a joint permitting both vertical and horizontal movement. - Composite maxillæ, in entom., maxillæ having more than one lobe. - Composite numbers, such numbers as can be measured exactly by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3: thus, 4 is the lowest com posite number. - Composite photograph, a single photographic portrait produced from more than one subject. The negatives from the individuals who are to enter into the composite photograph are so made as to show the faces as nearly as po ible of the same size and lighting, and in the same position. These negatives are then printed so as to register together upon the same piece of paper, each being exposed to the light for the same fraction of the full time required for printing. It is believed that by study and comparison of such photographs made from large series of subjects, types of countenance, local, general, etc., can be obtained. - Composite proof, in logic, one involving several distinct inferences. - Composite relation, a relation satisfied if, and only if, some one of the component relations is satisfied. It is distinguished from an aggregate relation, which is satisfied if, and only if, all the partial relations are satisfied. - Composite sailing, in navig., a combination of great-circle and parallel sailing.- Composite whole, in metaph., a union of matter and form, or of act and power. IMG:content-0945.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Specifically, an act of combination such that the distinctive characters of the parts are modified. [Rare.] The distinction of aggregation and composition runs through all cases of thought. In mathematics, it is seen in the distinction of addition and multiplication; in chemistry, in the distinction of mechanical mixture and chemical combination; in an act of parliament, in the distinction between "and be it further enacted" and "Provided De Morgan, Syllabus, § 170. always," and so on. 3. That which results from composing, as a literary, musical, or artistic production; specifically, a short e ay written as a school exercise. Colourists always liked to introduce the sweeping lines of her white robes into their compositions . J. A. Symonds, Italy and Greece, p. 65. Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a small house. Shenstone . The best Persian compositions , alike in prose and in verse, are marked by fine poetic imagery, combined with a profusion of metaphor. N. A. Rev. , CXL. 331. 4. That which results from the combination or union of several ingredients; a compound: as, type-metal is a composition of lead and antimony. Vast pillars of stone, cased over with a composition that looks like marble. Add is on . ferent elements; a compound; a composition. Each man's understanding... is a composite of natural capacity and superinduced habit. Harris, Hermes, They are the true composite of monkey and tiger, those Orientals. W. H. Ru ell, Diary in India, I. 288. 2. Specifically, a composite photograph. When the composite portrait of the cla of '86 at Smith College was made, it was my plan to make composites of the succeeding Senior cla es, and I hoped at some time to be able to secure composites of cla es in other colleges. The Century, XXXV. 121. 3. In bot., one of the Compos it a. composition (kom-po-zish'on), n. [ of which printers' inking-rollers are made. The ordinary ingredients are glue and mola es, boiled together in such proportions and to such a degree as to produce an elastic substance of considerable durability. A kind called patent composition is composed chiefly of glue, glycerin, and sugar. Often contracted to compo. 6. The manner in which or the stuff of which anything is composed; general constitution or make-up; structure. So hath God given your majesty a composition of understanding admirable. Bacon , Advancement of Learning, i. 2. These are the chief and prevailing ingredients in the composition of that man whom we call a scorner. Bp . Atterbury , Sermons, III. iii. tion = Dan. Sw. komposition, Di olution goeth a faster Pace than Composition . Howell, Letters, I. iii. 30. The next operation we may observe in the mind about its ideas is composition ; whereby it puts together several of those simple ones it has received from sensation and reflection, and combines them into complex ones. Locke , Human Understanding, II. xi. 6. Gray... has found out that there must go a million of ancestors in twenty generations to everybody's comтро sition. Walpole , Letters, II. 183. Specifically - ( a ) The act of producing a literary work. The labor of composition begins when you have to put your separate threads of thought into a loom; to weave them into a continuous whole; to connect, to introduce them; to blow them out or to expand them; to carry them to a close. De Quincey, Style, ii. (6) The art of putting words and sentences together in accordance with the rules of grammar and rhetoric: as, Greek prose composition. (c) In printing, the setting of type; type-setting; in a wider sense, the preparation of type for use in the production of printed sheets, including setting, correction of errors, making up, and imposition. (d) In philol., the union of two (rarely more than two) independent words to form a single word (called a compound ); the formation of a word out of other existing words, as rainbow from rain and bow; and so gentleman, lifelike, fulfil, etc. See compound word, under compound1, a. (e) In music, the art of composing music according to scientific rules. Composition is said to be strict when it follows certain recognized rules of musical form, and free when it is more or le independent of such rules. (f) In the fine arts, arrangement or grouping of parts, especially harmonious grouping, or that combination of the several parts whereby a subject or an object is agreeably presented to the mind, each part being subordinate to the whole. Light, space, color; that subtle synthesis of lines and forms which his most influential master Claude taught him, and which we call composition . New Princeton Rev., II. 33. (g) Combination; orderly disposition; regulation. Questioning how deep they should set it [the cro ], with what composition of gesture to worship it, and the like curiosities of Paganish Christian i tie. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 782. There is no composition in these news That gives them credit. Shak., Othello, i. 3. 8. The compounding or reconciling of differences, or of different interests; a mutual settlement or agreement; now, specifically, an agreement between a debtor and a creditor by which the latter accepts part of the debt due to him in satisfaction of the whole. There ys no ffoundacyon of any suche Chaunntry, but a certayne compos icy on or ordynaunce made betwene the prior and munkes of the late Monasterye of Tykfforde. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), р. 260. Thus we are agreed: I crave our composition may be written, And seal'd between us. Shak ., A. and C., ii. 6. Do they think by their rude attempts to dethrone the Majesty of Heaven, or by standing at the greatest defiance, to make him willing to come to terms of composition with them? Stilling fleet , Sermons, I. ii. The private making of candles for consumption at home was allowed under a composition for the duty. S. Dowell , Taxes in England, IV. 317. 9. The sum or rate paid, or agreed to be paid, in compounding with creditors: as, he has agreed to pay a composition of 60 cents on the dollar, or of 12 shillings in the pound. A granting of escheat lands for two pounds of tobacco per acre, composition . Beverley , Virginia, i. 3. 10. In music: (a) The combination of sounds which form a compound stop in an organ. ( b ) A mechanical contrivance for moving the handles of organ-stops in groups. 111. The synthetical mode of procedure in investigation or exposition; synthesis. The investigation of different things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition . Newton , Opticks. Antifriction compositions. See antifriction . Can See cannabic. - Composition nabic composition. cloth, a material made from long flax, and dre ed with a solution which renders it water-proof. It is used for bags, trunk-covers, etc. - Composition deed, a contract between creditors and their debtor effecting a composition, usually in a manner to bind the creditors not to molest the debtor. Composition face. Same as com position plane . Composition metal, a kind of bra made of copper, zinc, etc., used instead of copper, which is dearer, as sheathing for ve els. Composition of displacements, strains, velocities, accelerations, forces, stre es, etc., in mech ., the union or combination of two or more forces or velocities, acting in the same or different directions, into a single equivalent force or velocity. Thus, two forces acting in the directions of the adjacent sides of a parallelogram, provided the lengths of these sides represent also the magnitudes of the forces, are The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary composuistt, n. [Irreg. ist , after the mistaken analogy of casuist , etc.] A com- poser. Pick ering . composure (kom-pō'zhūr), n. [ compose + -ure . Cf. L. compositura , connection, commi ure, syntax: see composture .] 1. The act of com- posing; composition. A kind of Greek wine I have met with, sir, in my trav- els; it is the same that Demosthenes usually drunk, in the composure of all his exquisite and mellifluous orations. They had a great opinion of the piety and unblamable composure of the common prayer-book. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 259. Tis beleev'd this wording was above his known stile and Orthographie, and accuses the whole composure to be con- scious of som other Author. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, iv. Since the life of the first men was certainly rural, we may reasonably conjecture that their composures were pastoral hymns. Johnson. 3t. Arrangement; combination; order; adjust- ment; disposition; posture. His composure of himself is a studied carelesne e with his armes a cro e. Bp. Earle , Micro-cosmographie, A Discontented Man. The shape of his person, and composure of his limbs, are remarkably exact and beautiful. Steele , Spectator, No. 340. 4t. Frame; composition; hence, temperament; disposition; constitution. His composure must be rare indeed Whom these things cannot blemish. Other women would think themselves blest in your case; handsome, witty, lov'd by everybody, and of so happy a composure to care a Fig for nobody. Sir J. Vanbrugh , Confederacy, i. usual word being composer : see compose), = Pr. compondre, componre Sp. componer Pg . comp or = It. componere , comporre , compos it us , con posit us , put, place, place, lay, bring, or set tog together, etc., in a great variety ariety of applications, com- , together, + ponere , put, place: see com- and ponent , and ef. expound, propound, compone, depone, pro- pone , etc., and see compose , which is peculiarly related to compound. Cf. compound1, a. Hence (from L. componere ) also component , composite, compositor, compost , compote , etc.] I. trans. 1. To put together or mix (two or more elements or ingredients): as, to compound drugs. Therefore, conspiring all together plaine, They did their counsels now in one compound . Spenser, F. Q., VI. v. 14. We have the power of altering and compounding images into all the varieties of picture. Add is on , Spectator. 3. To form by uniting or mixing two or more elements or materials. Chaucer , Boëthius, iii. prose 10. The discordant elements out of which the Emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce during his life- time. Motley, Dutch Republic, I. 22. Are not we - and my we takes in you rather a mixed people, a people compounded of two elements, Saxon and Norman? E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 155. compo ibility (kom-pos-i-bil'i-ti), n. [ compos sib i lit a (t-)s, compos sib i lis : see com- po ible .] The po ibility of existing or being perilous coast. compo ible (kom-pos'i-bl), a . [ NL . * com- po ibilis , com- , together, + LL. po ibilis , po ible.] Capable of existing in one subject; consistent; capable of being true together. Chilling worth. compost (kom'post), n. [ compost , a con- diment, mixed dish, composte , a cond i- ment, a mixed dish, pickle (F. compote , > E. compote = Sp. Pg. compot a , stewed fruit), compost a , fem., compos to , masc., Pg.compos to , mixture, conserve (ML. compostum, a mixture of manures), compos it us , compost us , fem. compos it a , compost a , neut. compos i tum , compos- tum , pp. of componere , bring together, compose: see composite , compose, compound1, v.] 1. A I remember a child who, able to look with tolerable composure on a horrible cadaverous mask while it was held in the hand, ran away shrieking when his father put it on. H. Spencer, Man vs. State, p. 59. 6t. Agreement; settlement of differences; com- position. [Rare.] The treaty of Uxbridge gave the fairest hopes of a happy Eikon Basilike . composure . 7t. Combination; bond. compott, n. Same as compote . compotation (kom-po-ta's hon), n. [= F. com- potation = It.compot azione , compotatio ( n- ), Cicero's translation of Gr. συμπόσιον, sympo- sium (see symposium ), po- tatio (n-), a drinking: see potation .] The act of drinking or tippling together. Sir T. Browne . The fashion of compotation was still occasionally prac- tised in Scotland. Finding the most pleasurable sin such a sad post of more bitter than sweet. Hammond , Works, IV. 534. compotator (kom'po-ta-tor), n. Compostes & confites. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 121. Datys in composte . And do not spread the compost on the weeds, To make them ranker. IMG:content-0947.png:[blocks in formation] compote (kom'pot), n. [= D. Dan. kompot = G. compot = Sp. Pg. compot a , compote , compost , n .] 1. Fruit stewed or preserved in syrup, some times with spices.-2. Same as compotier . compotentt, a. [ME., com- , together, + po- ten (t-) s , having power: see compos ment is and potent.] Having control. Chaucer. compotier (F. pron. kom-po-ti-a'), n. [F., compote : see compote .] A china or gla dish in which stewed or preserved fruit, or the like, is served. Also, sometimes, compote . compot or (kom-pō'tor), n. [L.: see compot a- tor .] A compotator. Walker . [Rare.] compount,. An obsolete form of compound1 . Chaucer . compound1 (kom-pound'), r. [As in expound and propound , which have the same radical ele- ment, the d is excrescent after n, as in round1 , sound5, hind2 , lend , and the vulgar drownd, swound , etc. (the d being naturally developed from the n by di imilated gemination, but partly due, perhaps, in this case, to the ME. pp. compouned , E. adj. compound ) ; com- pounen, later componen (the later E. compone being based directly on the L.), His pomp, and all what state compounds. Sending for her againe, hee told her before her friends, she must goe with him, and compound peace betwixt her Countrie and vs. The first rule of scole, as thus How that Latin shall be compouned And in what wise it shall be souned. Gower, Conf. Amant., II. 90. Lucian's attempt in compounding his new dialogue. Bp . Hurd. 6. To settle amicably; adjust by agreement, as a difference or controversy; compose. I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife. Shak ., 2 Hen. VI., ii. 1. 7. To settle by agreement for a reduced amount or upon different terms, as a debt or dues of any kind: as, to compound tithes. See II., 3. This gentleman had now compounded a debt of £200,- 000, contracted by his grandfather. Evelyn, Diary, June 19, 1662. Gay. We here deliver, Subscribed by the consuls and patricians, Together with the seal o' the senate, what We have compounded on . Shak ., Cor., v. 5. Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen for thirty pounds. R. Carew , Survey of Cornwall. Their fortunes do somewhat gild their infirmities, and No, no, dear Friend, make it up, make it up; ay, ay, I'll compound . Congreve, Way of the World, v. 5. 2. To make a bargain, in general; agree. If you think it meet, compound with him by the year, and let him abide here with you; if not, use him for the present, and dismi him. Shak., M. for M., iv. 2. compound by means or in a manner different from that stipulated or required by law. It usually implies payment of or agreement on a gro sum le than the aggregate due. See composition, 8. 4. To settle with one who has committed a crime, agreeing for a consideration not to prosecute him. See I., 8.-5. To give out; fail: said of a horse in racing. [Sporting slang.]