a. [f. COMPOUND v. + -ABLE.]
† 1. Accordable, agreeable. Obs.
1611. Cotgr., Accordable, compoundable, accordable, agreeable.
2. Capable of being compounded or combined.
1674. Grew, Anat. Plants, Lect., i. (1682), 227. Bodies … many, and compoundable infinite ways.
1803. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XIII. 113. Gothic words … are … far more flexible and compoundable than those of southern origin.
1870. Abbott, Shaks. Grammar, § 432. Hence ‘blame’ … was considered compoundable with another adjective.
3. Capable of being commuted for money.
1860. Dickens, Uncomm. Trav., xii. A penalty of … five pounds, compoundable for a term of imprisonment.
1883. Sir L. Griffin, in Fortn. Rev., 1 Oct., 489. Every offence is ordinarily compoundable for money.
