compounder

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1. 1.One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish, ends by compromises. "Compounder in politics." Burke.
2. 2.One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime. Religious houses made compounders For the horrid actions of their founders. Hudibras.
3. 3.One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take. [Eng.] A. Wood.
4. 4.(Eng. Hist.) A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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