ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] † a. Agreed by compromise. b. Subjected to, arranged or modified by, compromise. c. Exposed to risk, danger, or discredit; damaged in reputation. d. That has been in contact with infectious disease.
1596. See COMPROMISE v. 2.
1844. Kinglake, Eöthen, i. We walked down to the precincts of the Quarantine Establishment, and here awaited us the ‘compromised’ officer of the Austrian Government. Ibid., xviii. Telling him … how deeply I was ‘compromised’ … by my contact with a person … since dead of the Plague.
1858. Froude, Hist. Eng., III. xv. 269. The Emperor … disowned his compromised minister in London.
1864. Lowell, Fireside Trav., 189. A kind of compromised explosion, like that of damp fireworks.
