Compensate

a. [Fr. compenser; It. compensere; Sp. compensar; Lat.compenso con, and pen so, to weigh carefully, from pen do, to weigh.] A balance; to give an equivalent in value to; to make equal return to; to recompense; to requite; to remunerate; as, to compensate a person for his labor or trouble. - To make amends for; to be equal in effect to; to make good; to counterbalance; to be equivalent in value to. "The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries." - Prior . -v.i. To make amends for; to render an equivalent; (preceding for ;) as, to compensate you for my negligence. Compensation, n . [Fr., from Lat. compensatio .] Act of compensating. -Something given or obtained as an equivalent; recompense; equilibrium; remuneration; indemnification; amends; as, compensation for injury. ( Civil Law .) A doctrine of the law of Scotland, France, and other States of Europe, corresponding to the common law set- off . It provides that when two parties are mutually creditors and debtors, their debts shall extinguish each other, if equal, and if unequal, leave only a balance due. Compensation balance. See PENDULUM. Compensative, a . Granting or affording compensa tion. lies or not; and it is not the practice of the workingman, any more than of the rest of the human species, to give his work at a third le than its value, because he is a bachelor. - See SOCIALISM. manners; desirous to please; courteous; affable; civil; obliging; polite; as, a complaisant courtier. Com'plaisantly, adv. With complaisance or cour tesy. Com'planate, Com plane', v. a. [Lat. compla surface.