com pens ablet (kompensabl)

[ + -able; = F. Sp. compensable, etc.] Capable of being compensated. Cotgrave. compensate (kom-pen's at or kom'pen-sat), v.; pret. and pp. compensated, ppr. compensating. [L. com pens at us, con pens at us, pp. of compen sare, con pens are (whence ult. the earlier form compense, q.v.), weigh together one thing against another, balance, make good, later also shorten, spare, ult. E. poise, q. v. Cf. compendium.] I. trans. 1. To give a substitute of equal value to; give an equivalent to; recompense: as, to compensate a laborer for his work or a merchant for his lo es. Nothing can compensate a people for the lo of what we may term civic individuality. Gladstone, Might of Right, p. 203. 2. To make up for; counterbalance; make amends for. All the wealth and treasures of the Indies can never compensate to a man the lo of his life. Stilling fleet, Sermons, I. xii. To compensate our brief term in this world, it is good to know as much as we can of it. Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., iii. 29. Up to a certain period, the diminution of the poetical powers is far more than compensated by the improvement of all the appliances and means of which those powers stand in need. Macaulay , Dryden. 3. In mech., to construct so as to effect compensation for the results of variations of temperature. See compensation, 4. So long as the clocks themselves are no better than they are, it would undoubtedly be a waste of money to compen sate the pendulums. Sir E. Beckett , Clocks and Watches, p. 180. =Syn. Recompense , Remunerate , etc. (see indemnify ), reward. II. in trans. To supply or serve as an equivalent; make amends; atone: followed by for: as, what can compensate for the lo of honor? pensate for the want of an internal governing sentiment. compensation (kom-pen-sā'shon), n . [= F. compensation = Pr. com pens a cio = Sp. compen No apparatus of senators, judges, and police can com H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 296. sacion = Pg. compensação = It. com pens azione, He that thinks to serve God by way of compensation, that is, to recompense God by doing one duty, for the omi ion of another, sins even in that, in which he thinks he serves God. Donne , Sermons, v. He [the Nabob]... made overtures to the chiefs of the invading armament, and offered to restore the factory, and to give compensation to those whom he had despoiled. Macaulay , Lord Clive. 3. That which supplies the place of something else, or makes good a deficiency, or makes amends: as, the speed of the hare is a compen sation for its want of any weapon of defense. His [Dante's] gentlene is all the more striking by contrast, like that silken compensation which blooms out of Lowell , Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 46. 4. To drive by force; gather rare.] Wyld beastes in yron yokes he would compell . Spenser, F. Q., I. vi. 26. Attended by the chiefs who fought the field, (Now friendly mix'd, and in one troop compell'd .) Dryden, Pal. and Arc., iii. 720. 5. To overpower; overcome; control. [Rare.] But easy sleep their weary limbs compelled. Dryden. compellable (kom-pel'a-bl), a. [ No man being compellable to confe publicly any sin before Nov at i an's time. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, vi. 4. Joint tenants are compellable by writ of partition to divide their lands. Black stone, compellably (kom-pel'a-bli), adv. By compul sion. Todd. compellation (kom-pe-la's hon), n. [ That name and compellation of little flock doth not comfort, but deject my devotion. Sir T. Browne , Religio Medici, i. 58. compendious or terse, brief manner;; summarily; in brief; in epitome. IMG:content-0914.png:[blocks in formation] Bentley. a-making is compendiously expre ed by the word chaos. compendiousne (kom-pen'di-us-nes), n. The state or quality of being compendious; concisene ; brevity; tersene ; comprehension within a narrow compa . The inviting easine and compendiousne of this a ertion. Bentley , Sermons, ix.