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Compensate
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.
CompensateCompensate Com"pen*sate (? or ?; 277), 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. CompensatedCompensate Com"pen*sate (? or ?; 277), 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. Compensated balanceCompensation 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, or Compensated 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.
Syn: Recompense; reward; indemnification; consideration;
requital; satisfaction; set-off. CompensatingCompensate Com"pen*sate (? or ?; 277), 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. CompensationCompensation 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, or Compensated 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.
Syn: Recompense; reward; indemnification; consideration;
requital; satisfaction; set-off. Compensation balanceCompensation 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, or Compensated 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.
Syn: Recompense; reward; indemnification; consideration;
requital; satisfaction; set-off. Compensation pendulumPendulum Pen"du*lum, n.; pl. Pendulums. [NL., fr. L.
pendulus hanging, swinging. See Pendulous.]
A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to
and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It
is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other
machinery.
Note: The time of oscillation of a pendulum is independent of
the arc of vibration, provided this arc be small.
Ballistic pendulum. See under Ballistic.
Compensation pendulum, a clock pendulum in which the effect
of changes of temperature of the length of the rod is so
counteracted, usually by the opposite expansion of
differene metals, that the distance of the center of
oscillation from the center of suspension remains
invariable; as, the mercurial compensation pendulum, in
which the expansion of the rod is compensated by the
opposite expansion of mercury in a jar constituting the
bob; the gridiron pendulum, in which compensation is
effected by the opposite expansion of sets of rodsof
different metals.
Compound pendulum, an ordinary pendulum; -- so called, as
being made up of different parts, and contrasted with
simple pendulum.
Conical or Revolving, pendulum, a weight connected by a
rod with a fixed point; and revolving in a horizontal
cyrcle about the vertical from that point.
Pendulum bob, the weight at the lower end of a pendulum.
Pendulum level, a plumb level. See under Level.
Pendulum wheel, the balance of a watch.
Simple or Theoretical, pendulum, an imaginary pendulum
having no dimensions except length, and no weight except
at the center of oscillation; in other words, a material
point suspended by an ideal line. Compensation pendulumCompensation 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, or Compensated 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.
Syn: Recompense; reward; indemnification; consideration;
requital; satisfaction; set-off. Compensative
Compensative Com*pen"sa*tive, n.
Compensation. [R.] --Lamb.
Compensative
Compensative Com*pen"sa*tive, a. [LL. compensativus.]
Affording compensation.
compensatorAutotransformer Au`to*trans*form"er, n. [Auto- + transformer.]
(Elec.)
A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as
a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a
compensator or balancing coil. Compensatory
Compensatory Com*pen"sa*to*ry, a.
Serving for compensation; making amends. --Jer. Taylor.
DispensableDispensable Dis*pen"sa*ble, a. [LL. dispensabilis. See
Dispense.]
1. Capable of being dispensed or administered.
2. Capable of being dispensed with. --Coleridge. Dispensableness
Dispensableness Dis*pen"sa*ble*ness, n.
Quality of being dispensable.
DispensariesDispensary Dis*pen"sa*ry, n.; pl. Dispensaries. [Cf. F.
dispensaire.]
1. A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp.,
a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and
medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.
2. A dispensatory. --Pope. DispensaryDispensary Dis*pen"sa*ry, n.; pl. Dispensaries. [Cf. F.
dispensaire.]
1. A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp.,
a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and
medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.
2. A dispensatory. --Pope. Dispensative
Dispensative Dis*pen"sa*tive, a. [Cf. F. dispensatif.]
Granting dispensation.
Dispensatively
Dispensatively Dis*pen"sa*tive*ly, adv.
By dispensation. --Wotton.
Dispensator
Dispensator Dis"pen*sa`tor, n. [L.]
A distributer; a dispenser. --Bacon.
DispensatoriesDispensatory Dis*pen"sa*to*ry, n.; pl. Dispensatories.
A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic
description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It
is usually, but not always, distinguished from a
pharmacop[oe]ia in that it issued by private parties, and not
by an official body or by government. Dispensatorily
Dispensatorily Dis*pen"sa*to*ri*ly, adv.
In the way of dispensation; dispensatively.
DispensatoryDispensatory Dis*pen"sa*to*ry, a. [L. dispensatorius relating
to management. See Dispense, v. t.]
Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations.
``Dispensatory power.' --Bp. Rainbow. DispensatoryDispensatory Dis*pen"sa*to*ry, n.; pl. Dispensatories.
A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic
description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It
is usually, but not always, distinguished from a
pharmacop[oe]ia in that it issued by private parties, and not
by an official body or by government. EquipensateEquipensate E`qui*pen"sate, v. t. [Equi- + pensatus, p. p. of
pensare to weigh. Cf. Equipoise.]
To weigh equally; to esteem alike. [Obs.] Indispensable
Indispensable In`dis*pen"sa*ble, a. [Pref. in- not +
dispensable: cf. F. indispensable.]
1. Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or
spared; absolutely necessary or requisite.
2. (Eccl.) Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release
or exemption. [R.]
The law was moral and indispensable. --Bp. Burnet.
3. Unavoidable; inevitable. [Obs.] --Fuller.
Indispensableness
Indispensableness In`dis*pen"sa*ble*ness, n.
The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely
necessary. --S. Clarke.
Indispensably
Indispensably In`dis*pen"sa*bly, adv.
In an indispensable manner. ``Indispensably necessary.'
--Bp. Warburton.
Patriarchal dispensationPatriarchal Pa`tri*ar"chal, a. [Cf. F. patriarcal.]
1. Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs;
possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal
authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a
patriarchal church.
2. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
About whose patriarchal knee Late the little
children clung. --Tennyson.
3. (Ethnol.) Having an organization of society and government
in which the head of the family exercises authority over
all its generations.
Patriarchal cross (Her.), a cross, the shaft of which is
intersected by two transverse beams, the upper one being
the smaller. See Illust. (2) of Cross.
Patriarchal dispensation, the divine dispensation under
which the patriarchs lived before the law given by Moses. Pensative
Pensative Pen"sa*tive, a.
Pensive. [Obs.] --Shelton.
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