Obs. [f. COMPILE v. + -MENT.]
1. The compiling (of a literary work, etc.).
1656. H. More, Enthus. Triumph, A 6 a. After the whole compilement whereof.
1657. Howell, Londinop., Advt. to Rdr. Though the method, the style, and compilement be his.
1676. Packet Advices to Men of Shaftesb., 32. His Lordship was no stranger to its compilement.
b. The action of constructing or building up.
a. 1639. Wotton, Surv. Education, Ded. How I could build a man; for there is a moral as well as a natural or artificial compilement, and of better materials.
2. concr. That which is compiled, a compilation.
1665–6. Phil. Trans., I. Ep. Ded. 1. The Intimation of large Compilements.
1729. Swift, Lett. to Pope, Wks. 1761, VIII. 91. The compilements of Graevius and Gronovius, which make thirty-one volumes in folio.
1841. D’Israeli, Amen. Lit. (1859), I. 95. That tesselated compilement … well known by the title of La Morte d’Arthur.
b. A structure. c. A collection, accumulation.
1624. Wotton, Archit., Pref., in Reliq., 4. I found it fitter for my pen … to deal with these plain Compilements and tractable Materials.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. ii. 63. A Compilement of all Imaginable Attributes of Honour, Courtship, and Complement.
a. 1687. H. More, App. Antid. (1712), 225. This compilement of Aiery or Fiery particles.
