compertorium

[Lat. compertum, sup. of comperio=to bring up, to find out: com =with, and aperio =(1) to uncover, to lay bare; (2) to open.) Civil Law : A judicial request made by delegates or commi ioners to find out and establish the truth of a cause. (Parish Antiq ., 575.) com-pēte', v . i . & t . [ Lat.competo =to go together, to seek together: com together, and peto = to go to, to seek.] I. Intransitive : 1. To seek together, to seek what another is also striving at the same time to obtain. (Used of per sons, of the inferior animals, or of things inanimate.) it would undoubtedly be exposed to different Requital is conditions of life in the different islands, for it would • A recompense turn; it is an act of generosity a return for a kindne ; the making it is an act of gratitude; the omi ion of it wounds the feelings: it sometimes [though not often] happens that the only requital which our kind action obtains, is the animosity of the person served." (Crabb: Eng . Synon.) Hor.: A balance-wheel for a watch or chronome- ter, so constructed as to make isochronal (equal time) beats, notwithstanding changes of tempera- turo. This effect is usually attained by having the balance-wheel cut into two segments, the arcs being fixed at one end each. This allows space for the ex- pansion and contraction with no variation in size of IMG:content-0375.png:[merged small][merged small][ocr errors] have to compete with different sets of organisms."-Dar win : Origin of Species (ed. 1859), ch. xii., p. 401. 2. To claim equality with. thing. II. Trans.: To engage in competition for any com'-pě-tençe, com-pe-ten-çỹ, s. [Dan.competence; Ger. kompetenz ; Fr. compétence; Sp. & Port. comp eten cia ; Ital. competenza ; Lat. compe tentia = a meeting together; agreement, symmetry, from competo .] [COMPETE.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. Gen .: Sufficiency. "Something of speech is to be indulged to common civility, more to intimacies, and a competency to those timer in i mic maintain the cheerfulne of society."-Government of the Tongue. 2. Spec.: Adequate pecuniary support, remote at once from want and from superfluity. "He obtained from the royal bounty a modest compe tence: a tence; and he desired no more."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng II. Law : ward is counteracted by that of the other upward. By this arrangement the pendulum does not vary in length, and consequently in frequency of vibration, 1. Of persons: IMG:content-0376.png:[ocr errors][merged small] IMG:content-0377.png:[blocks in formation] the fitne ; acquaintance ith the users to be done, and expertne in the mode of performing it, constitute the qualification ." ( Crabb : Eng. Synon.) com-pě-těn'-tēş, s. pl . [ Lat.competentes , pl. of comp etens , pr. par. of competo .] [COMPETE.] Ch . Hist . An order of catechumens in the early Christian Church who were candidates for immedi- ate baptism. IMG:content-0378.png:[blocks in formation] A brazen wall in compas to compyle About Cairmardin." "Spenser: F. Q., III. iii. 10. Crabb thus distinguishes between competition , emulation, and rivalry : "Competition expre es tion. the relation of a competitor, or the act of seeking the same object; emulation expre es a disposition of the mind toward particular objects; rivalry expre es both the relation and the disposition of a rival. Emulation is to competition as the motive to the action; emulation produces competitors , but it may exist without it; they have the same marks to distinguish them from rivalry. Competition and emulation have honor for their basis; rivalry is but a desire for selfish gratification. A competitor strives to surpa by honest means; he cannot suc- ceed so well by any other: a rival is not bound by any principle; he seeks to supplant by whatever means seem to promise succe . An unfair com- petit or and a generous rival are equally unusual and inconsistent. Competition animates to exer- tion; rivalry provokes hatred; competition seeks to merit succe ; rivalry is contented with obtaining it." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) par. of competo to seek together; and Eng. suff. com-pět'-I-tive, a . [From Lat. com petit us , pa. -ive .] Pertaining to competition, involving com- petition. ( H. Martin eau .) IMG:content-0379.png:[blocks in formation] Flock to the rebels, and their power grows strong." Shakesp.: Richard III., iv. 4. 2. A person who competes; one who engages in a struggle mental, physical, or both with a rival, to at which both aim. become the sole po e or of some desirable object IMG:content-0380.png:[blocks in formation] It may be used also of animals or of species severally. fore of competitors , decreases northward."- Darwin : Ori . the number of species of all kinds, and there. com-pět-i-tõr-y, a . [Eng., ., competitor ; -y.] 1. Engaged in competition. titi on. 2. Involving competition, pertaining to compe "This work was written as a com petitory treatise."_ Faber : Difficulties of Infidelity , prof. com-pět-It-rě , s . [Eng., ., competitor , and trix ( lit. & fig .). fem. suff. -e .] A female competitor, a competi- Cambridge; with whom the Grecian Athens itself was "The two famous flourishing Universities, Oxford and no fit com pet i tre ." -Hie rag on is tic on , or Korah's Doom (1672), p. 136. com-pět-i-trix, s. [Lat.] A female competi- tor, a com pet i tre . "Queen Anne, being now without competitrix for her title, ."-Ld. Herbert: Hist. of Henry VIII. comp i-lā-tion. s. [Sw. & Ger. kompilation ; Dan. & Fr. compilation ; Sp. comp i lac i on ; Port. IMG:content-0381.png:[blocks in formation] Longaville Did never sonnet for her sake compile ." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , iv. 3. & a. [COMPILE.] com-pi led, *com-pilde, *com-pyld, pa . par . IMG:content-0382.png:[merged small][ocr errors] IMG:content-0383.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0384.png:[blocks in formation] 2. One who enters a civil action against another; a plaintiff. com-plain-er, *com-playn-our, *com-playn- complacent; i connective; and suff. -al.] Causing satisfaction or pleasure. "The more high and excellent operations of complacen tial love."- Baxter : Life and Times (1696), p. 7.