Obs. [f. L. type *compositūra, f. composit-: see above and -URE.]

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  1.  Make, mode of constitution; = COMPOSITION 13, 14

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1625.  Jackson, Orig. Unbeliefe, xii. 93. The fabricke or compositure of the vnderstanding.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, I. 50. In the ordinaries of this kind, there are diverse Compossitures.

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a. 1718.  Penn, Maxims, Wks. 1726, I. 821. If we consider his [man’s] Make, and lovely Compositure.

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  2.  concr. A collection, mass.

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1632.  Lithgow, Trav., IX. (1682), 374. Not being able to contain such a Compositure of Combustible matter.

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