Complot
(Com*plot") v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Complotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Complotting.] [Cf. F. comploter,
fr. complot.] To plot or plan together; to conspire; to join in a secret design.
We find them complotting together, and contriving a new scene of miseries to the Trojans.
Pope.
Complotment
(Com*plot"ment) n. A plotting together. [R.]
Complotter
(Com*plot"ter) n. One joined in a plot. Dryden.
Complutensian
(Com`plu*ten"sian) a. Of or pertaining to Complutum (now Alcala de Henares) a city
near Madrid; as, the Complutensian Bible.
Compluvium
(||Com*plu"vi*um) n. [L.] (Arch.) A space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling,
through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.
Comply
(Com*ply") v. i. [imp. & p. p. Complied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Complying.] [Perh. formed fr.
compliment, influenced by ply, pliant, which are of different origin: cf. It. complire to compliment, finish,
suit. See Compliment, Complete.]
1. To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; — usually
followed by with.
Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply,
Scandalous or forbidden in our law.
Milton.
They did servilely comply with the people in worshiping God by sensible images.
Tillotson.
He that complies against his will
Is of his own opinion still.
Hudibras.
2. To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments. [Obs.] Shak.
Comply
(Com*ply"), v. t. [See comply, v. i.]
1. To fulfill; to accomplish. [Obs.] Chapman.
2. [Cf. L. complicare to fold up. See Ply.] To infold; to embrace. [Obs.]
Seemed to comply,
Cloudlike, the daintie deitie.
Herrick.
Compone
(Com*pone") v. t. [L. componere. See Compound.] To compose; to settle; to arrange. [Obs.]
A good pretense for componing peace.
Strype.
Compone
(||Com*po"ne) a. [F.] See Compony.
Component
(Com*po"nent) a. [L. componens, p. pr. of componere. See Compound, v. t.] Serving,
or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.
The component parts of natural bodies.
Sir I. Newton.
Component
(Com*po"nent), n. A constituent part; an ingredient.
Component of force (Mech.), a force which, acting conjointly with one or more forces, produces the
effect of a single force or resultant; one of a number of forces into which a single force may be resolved.
Compony
(Com*po"ny ||Com*po"né) , a. [F. componé.] (Her.) Divided into squares of alternate tinctures
in a single row; — said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches
of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter- compony.
