Definition of Compounding

1. Noun. The act of combining things to form a new whole.


Definition of Compounding

1. Verb. (present participle of compound) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Compounding

1. compound [v] - See also: compound

Lexicographical Neighbors of Compounding

compound protein
compound q
compound restoration
compound sentence
compound sentences
compound skull fracture
compound symbol
compound symbols
compound word
compound words
compoundable
compounded
compoundedness
compounder
compounders
compounding
compoundness
compounds
comprador
comprador bourgeoisie
compradore
compradores
compradors
comprecation
comprecations
compreg
compregs
comprehend
comprehended
comprehender

Literary usage of Compounding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States by Francis Wharton (1874)
"Compounding CRIMES. § 250">. Compounding a crime is committed by agreeing to conceal it, when the party concealing knows it to have been committed. a It has ..."

2. Precedents of Indictments and Pleas: Adapted to the Use of Both of the by Francis Wharton (1881)
"The agreeing to receive money in consideration of compounding a charge of ... It is also a misdemeanor to receive money for compounding a prosecution for ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1902)
"The argument that compounding of alternating current generators is not ... Working an alternating current station without compounding is equivalent to ..."

4. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1887)
"Compounding a Misdemeanor.—The offence of compounding is not restricted to ... Compounding a misdemeanor is also indictable.1 that extent to hinder and ..."

5. A Practical Guide to the Quarter Sessions, and Other Sessions of the Peace by William Dickinson, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1829)
"The agreeing to receive money in consideration of compounding a charge of felony is a high misdemeanor, subjecting the party who commits it to imprisonment ..."

6. Principles of the Criminal Law: A Concise Exposition of the Nature of Crime by Seymour Frederick Harris, Frederic Philip Tomlinson (1881)
"Compounding OFFENCES. Mere forbear- A private individual is not obliged to set the law in mice ... Compounding felony, or forbearing to prosecute felony. a ..."

7. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"It is indifferent for compounding whether the words are simple or derivative ... The principle of English compounding is the Germanic, to which compounds of ..."

8. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell (1877)
"Compounding a mere charge of felony is illegal ; as where a person, having larged a man before a magistrate with embezzlement, agrees not to prosecute the ..."

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