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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Compounder \Com*pound"er\, n. 1. One who or that which compounds or mixes; as a compounder of medicines. 2. One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish, ends by compromises. ``Compounders in politics.'' --Burke. 3. One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime. Religious houses made compounders For the horrid actions of their founders. --Hudibras. 4. One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take [Eng.] --A. Wood. 5. (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.
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