compense
See also: compensé
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From French compenser. See compensate.
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compense (third-person singular simple present compenses, present participle compensing, simple past and past participle compensed)
- (obsolete) To compensate.
- May 2 1623, Francis Bacon, letter to Mr. Tobie Matthew
- I hope, if any thing want in the speed of time, it will be compensed in the fruit of time, that all may sort to the best.
- May 2 1623, Francis Bacon, letter to Mr. Tobie Matthew
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “compense”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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compense
- inflection of compenser:
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- Hyphenation: com‧pen‧se
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compense
- inflection of compensar:
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compense
- inflection of compensar: