compensate, compensate

t. & i. [From Lat. com pens a tum, sup. of compenso = to weigh together, to weigh one thing against another, freq. of compendo to weigh together: com together, and pen do to cause to hang down, to weigh.] [COMPENSE.] A. Transitive : 1. Lit .: To pay the proper price for, to give adequate remuneration for services rendered, or an equivalent for lo es sustained; to recompense, to pay. I should at least secure my own, Words worth: Excursion, bk. iii. And be in part compensated " 2. Fig .: To furnish an equivalent for, to counterbalance, to make a sufficient set-off against. "The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries." -Prior. equivalent is given. By is placed before that which is received in payment, and for precedes that for which the animated beings, ill compensated by the faint light of the satellites."- Herschel : Astron. (5th ed., 1858), extension to compensate for the injury."-London Times. hints are the out of claims to territorial §522 b. 1012 B. In trans.: To supply an equivalent, to make amends, atonement, or set-off. (Followed by for.) was one for which “. but that blemish no merit could compensate..."-Macaulay: Hist, Eng., ch. xv. com-pěn-sā-těd, com-pěn-sā-těd, pa. par. & a. [COMPENSATE, v. t.] căm-pěn-sa-ting, com-pěn'-sa-ting, pr. par. or a. [COMPENSATE.] Compensating strips: [The same as COMPEN SATION STRIPS (q. v.).]