compounder
A person who compoundsA person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result)
Meaning
5 sensesA person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result)
a compounder of medicines
One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.
One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
(UK, historical)A Jacobite who favoured 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.
(UK, archaic)One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
Origin
From compound + -er.From compound + -er.
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Forms
plural: compounders| Singular | compounder |
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Word family
1 related wordsSee also
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