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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Compensate \Com"pen*sate\ (? or ?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Compensated}; p. pr & vb n. {Compensating}.] [L.
compensatus p. p. of compensare, prop., to weigh several
things with one another, to balance with one another, verb
intens. fr compendere See {Compendium}.]
1. To make equal return to to remunerate; to recompense; to
give an equivalent to to requite suitably; as to
compensate a laborer for his work or a merchant for his
losses.
2. To be equivalent in value or effect to to counterbalance;
to make up for to make amends for
The length of the night and the dews thereof do
compensate the heat of the day --Bacon.
The pleasures of life do not compensate the
miseries. --Prior.
Syn: To recompense; remunerate; indemnify; reward; requite;
counterbalance.
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