Word Meanings - COMPOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all

Additional info about word: COMPOSE

To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all pious affection. Bp. Sprat. 2. To form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute. Their borrowed gold composed The calf in Oreb. Milton. A few useful things . . . compose their intellectual possessions. I. Watts. 3. To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture. Let me compose Something in verse as well as prose. Pope. The genius that composed such works as the "Standard" and "Last Supper". B. R. Haydon. 4. To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate. In a peaceful grave my corpse compose. Dryden. How in safety best we may Compose our present evils. Milton. 5. To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet. Compose thy mind; Nor frauds are here contrived, nor force designed. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPOSE)

• Allay
• soothe
• alleviate
• repress
• mitigate
• quiet
• moderate
• appease
• compose
• soften
• pacify
• mollify
• assuage
• tranquilize
• palliate
• culm
• Arbitrate
• Settle
• adjust
• decide
• determine
• accommodate
• adjudicate
• Bury
• Inter
• inhume
• conceal
• suppress
• obliterate
• cancel
• entomb
• hush
• Calm
• Smooth
• allay
• still
• Compromise Arbitrate
• settle
• endanger
• implicate
• involve

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMPOSE)

• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad

Related words: (words related to COMPOSE)

• STILL
  1. A vessel, boiler, or copper used in the distillation of liquids; specifically, one used for the distillation of alcoholic liquors; a retort. The name is sometimes applied to the whole apparatus used in in vaporization and condensation. 2. A
• INTERVALLUM
  An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• INTERAMBULACRUM
  In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum. (more info) Interambulacrums
• INTERLACE
  To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches
• INTERAMBULACRAL
  Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.
• INTERCENTRUM
  The median of the three elements composing the centra of the vertebræ in some fossil batrachians.
• INTERMURE
  To wall in; to inclose. Ford.
• INTERREX
  An interregent, or a regent.
• INTERIM
  A name given to each of three compromises made by the emperor Charles V. of Germany for the sake of harmonizing the connecting opinions of Protestants and Catholics. (more info) 1. The meantime; time intervening; interval between events, etc. All
• INTERIOR
  1. Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball. 2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore;
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• INTERRADIAL
  Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoölogy, said of certain parts of radiate animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish.
• INTERHEMAL; INTERHAEMAL
  Between the hemal arches or hemal spines. -- n.
• INTERDUCE
  An intertie.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• INTERMUTATION
  Interchange; mutual or reciprocal change.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• INTERVENE
  A coming between; intervention; meeting. Sir H. Wotton.
• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• INTERMEDDLE
  To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To
• INSTILL
  To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.