What is to pass compliments; to use conventional expressions of respect. I make the interlocutors, upon occasion, compliment with one another. Boyle called?
compliment — To pass compliments; to use conventional expressions of respect. I make the interlocutors, upon occasion, compliment with one another. Boyle. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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