[f. COMPOUNDER: see -ESS.] A female compounder: † a. that settles quarrels (obs.); b. that compounds mixtures.
1640. Howell, Vocal Forrest, 9. Arbitratrix and compoundress of any quarrell that may intervene.
1844. Blackw. Mag., LVI. 768. We … tasted it out of courtesy to the fair compoundress.
1892. Sir W. Moore, in Med. Reporter, I. 1 Dec., 229/1. There is little doubt that the nepenthe of Homer was hemp, and that when bright Helen mixed the ‘mirth-inspiring bowl,’ some part of the hemp plant, ‘friendly to the joys of life,’ was used by the fair compoundress.
