Compensation

kom-pen-sa'-shun, s. the act of compensating; an equivalent for services, debt, want, lo , Completion, or suffering; recompense; amends. Compensation balance or pendulum, one so constructed as to beat Completive, COMPLETIVE ] equally under all changes of temperature and climate. kom-pen'-så-tiv, } a. that makes kom-pen' -sà-to-re,s amends or compensation. kom -pes', v.a. to hold in check (L.com, and pes, the foot) kom-peet',. v.a. to seek or strive for the same thing as another; to rival (L. com, and peto, to seek). kom'-pe-tens, s state of being comkom'-pe-ten-se, s. petent; fitne ; suit ablene ; ability; sufficiency; means sufficient to furnish the nece aries and conveniences of life, without superfluity; legal capacity; legal right or authority. kom'-pe-tent, a. suitable; fit; adequate; able; having legal capacity or power; properly belonging. Competently, kom'-pe-tent-le, ad. in a competent manner kom-pe-tish'. -un, s. the act of competing; strife in common for the same object; contention for superiority; rivalry. kom-pet'-e-tiv, a. relating to competition. kom-pet'-e-tur, s. one who competes a rival.; kom-pet'-e-to-re, a. acting in competition. kom-pet'-e-trix, S s. a female competitor. kom-pe-la'-shun, s. the act of compiling; that which is compiled, specially a literary work composed of materials culled from various authors. kom-pile', v.a. to compose a literary work by collecting pa ages or material from various authors; to compose (L. com, and pilo, to plunder). kom-pile'-ment, 8. s. compilation. kom-pla'-sens, s. pleasure; satisfackom-pla'-sen-se, tion; the cause of the pleasure; pleasantne of manners; deportment and addre ; civility (L. com, and placco, to please). kom-pla'-sent, a. expre ing complacency. Complacently, kom-pla -sent-le, ad. in a complacent manner. kom-pla-sen'-shal, a. marked by complacence. kom-playn', v.n. to expre grief, pain, censure, resentment, .; to lament; to murmur; to bring a charge against: s. complaint (L. com, and plano, to beat the breast). kom-playn' -ant, s. a complainer; a sufferer; one who commences a legal proce against an offender; a plaintiff [Law]. s. complaint. Complainingly, kom-playn' -ing-le, ad. in a complaining manner. kom-playnt', s. expre ion of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; cause or subject of complaint; pain and uneasine in the body; disease; representation of injuries; accusation. kom' -ple-zans, s. pleasing deportment; civility; courtesy; desire of pleasing; disposition to oblige. kom'-ple-zant, a. desirous of pleasing; courteous; obliging; expre ing complaisance. Complaisantly, kom'-ple-zant-le, ad. in a complacent manner. Complaisant ne , kom'-ple-zant-nes, s. complaisance. See Complacency. kom-plek -ted, a. interdependent (L. com and alec to, plexum, kom'-ple-ment, to weave) s.. that which completes, or makes up the full number or quantity; the full number or quantity; fulne ; that which is is added, not as nece ary, but as ornamental; something adventitious to the main thing. The complement of an arc or angle, the difference between the arc or angle and90° [Math.] The complements of a parallelogram, the two spaces which, with the parallelograms about the diagonal, make up or complete the whole parallelogram [Math.] The complement of a number, the ., difference between the number and 10, 100, 1,000, used chiefly in working propositions by logarithms [Arith.] The complement of the curtain, that part in the interior side which makes the demigorge [Fort.] kom-ple-ment'-al, a. filling up kom-ple-ment -a-re, completing;; supplying deficiency. kom-pleet', a. perfect; entire; absolute; finished: v.a. to finish; to perfect; to accomplish (L. com, and pleo, to fill). Completely, kom-pleet'-le, ad. incomplete manner. Completene ,kom-pleet'- nes, s. the state of being complete. kom-ple'-slun, s.act of completing; state of being complete; fulfilment; accomplishment. kom-ple'-tiv, a, making complete,