Compunction

[Fr. componction; It. compun zione; Lat. compunctio, from compungo con, and pun go, punctus, to prick. A pricking of conscience; remorse; contrition; penitential sorrow. "He acknowledged his disloyalty to the king, with expre ions of great compunction." - Clarendon. IMG:content-0294.png:[graphic] -To unite two or more words so as to form one; as, to compound a substantive. To compound a felony. (Eng. Law.) To enter into an agreement with a felon, that he shall not be prosecuted on the condition that he surrenders the objects of his felony; to take a reward for forbearing to prosecute. - To agree upon conce ion; to come to terms; to bargain; to agree; to come to terms by granting some thing on each side; to settle by compromise; generally with for or with; as, to compound a ransom.