Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
company .
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Examples
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L'occasion, la compaignie, le branle mesme de ma voix, tire plus de mon esprit, que je n'y trouve lors que je le sonde et employe à part moy.
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Thei woulde not spitte within the precincte of the compaignie emong theim, ne yeat on their righte side.
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And not thei onely that strike the couenantes, but also those that are moste honourable in their compaignie.
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If at any time thei lacke the bodies of the beastes, then take thei the rawe hides of suche as thei lateliest before had slaine, and clensyng them cleane fro the heare, thei sokynglie laie them to a softe fire; and when thei be throughly hette, deuide them emong the compaignie, whiche very griedely fille themselues of them.
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Suche as thei tooke with a faulte, thei draue fro their compaignie.
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Some of them gaue themselues to wedlocke: least if they shoulde be of the oppinion that men oughte to absteine vttrely from women, mankinde shoulde fade, and in processe be extincte, yeat vsed thei the compaignie of their wiues nothing at riote.
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This people so despiseth al other men, and thincke theim selues so farre to surmount them in wisedome and goodnes: that thei abhorre to speake to theim, or to compaignie with theim.
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When so euer any man lusteth for the compaignie of his woman, he hangeth vp his quiuer vpon the carte wherein his wife is caryed by him, and there openly without shame coupleth.
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"Ce parteur & sa compaignie la plus part de vos subjectz ..."
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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"Ce parteur & sa compaignie la plus part de vos subjectz ..."
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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