Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of putting or piling together or heaping up.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Compilation.
Etymologies
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Examples
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To furnish tables showing the number of Negroes which the selective draft produced for the various occupations mentioned was at the compilement of this work not practicable.
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The first edition of this compilement appeared In 1787, and; was noticed in our Catalogue for July in the same year.
The Monthly Review 1797
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Tb6 compilement, how - ever, has great merit, and the difllnation prefixed to it exhibits a curious hiflory of this branch of German literature, inter - fpcrfed with critical remarks, which are fometiriries ingenious, but frequently ofFcnd us, when Shakefpeare is brought before the tribunal of French tafte, and judged by the laws in which Nature is fo much cramped in the fVench drama.
The Monthly Review 1786
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This compilement will certainly prove very ufeful 'to - young per - i&ns who are engagbd in the pleafing puWmt of natural knowledge.
The Monthly Review 1772
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Mag. 1758, p. 555.] 'As to the alledged design of making the compilement pass for the work of old Mr. Cibber, the charges seem to have been founded on a somewhat uncharitable construction.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Mag_. 1758, p. 555.] 'As to the alledged design of making the compilement pass for the work of old Mr. Cibber, the charges seem to have been founded on a somewhat uncharitable construction.
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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