Chapter Compassable to Competence of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Compendiously
(Com*pen"di*ous*ly), adv. In a compendious manner.

Compendiously expressed by the word chaos.
Bentley.

Compendiousness
(Com*pen"di*ous*ness), n. The state or quality of being compendious.

Compendium
(Com*pen"di*um) n.; pl. E. Compendiums L. Compendia [L. compendium that which is weighed, saved, or shortened, a short way, fr. compendere to weigh; com- + pendere to weigh. See Pension, and cf. Compend.] A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary.

A short system or compendium of a science.
I. Watts.

Syn. — See Abridgment.

Compensate
(Com"pen*sate) 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.

Compensate
(Com"pen*sate), v. i. To make amends; to supply an equivalent; — followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.

Compensation
(Com`pen*sa"tion) n. [L. compensatio a weighing, a balancing of accounts.]

1. The act or principle of compensating. Emerson.

2. That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense.

The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners.
Hallam.

No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them.
Burke.

3. (Law) (a)The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off. Bouvier. Wharton. (b) A recompense or reward for some loss or service. (c) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.

Compensation balance, orCompensated balance, a kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different metals having different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement. — Compensation pendulum. See Pendulum.