That compounds; † constituent, component (obs.).
1571. Digges, Pantom., IV. x. Y ij. The side of dodecaedron … hauing the squares of his names or compounding lynes in proportion.
1672. Grew, Anat. Plants, Idea Philos. Hist., § 9. Of their Compounding Parts.
1748. Hartley, Observ. Man, I. i. 17. The extreme Smallness of the compounding Vessels.
1757. Mrs. E. Griffith, Lett. Henry & Fr. (1767), I. 41. Like a compounding creditor, you must accept of quantity for quality.
