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compact

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compact \Com"pact\ (k[o^]m"p[a^]kt), n. [L. compactum, fr. compacisci, p. p. compactus, to make an agreement with; com- + pacisci to make an agreement. See Pact .] An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract. The law of nations depends on mutual ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"make-up case," 1921, from compact (adj.), based on its containing compacted face powder.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A compact newspaper is a broadsheet -quality newspaper printed in a tabloid format (slightly taller), especially one in the United Kingdom . The term as used for this size (not to be confused with 108 × 171 mm or 4.25 × 6.75 inches paper sizes ) came into ...

Usage examples of compact.

This is just like the invasion of Italy in 553 by the Alamannic brethren, and is quite in keeping with the loosely compacted character of the Merovingian monarchy, in which it was copied by the Anglian and Saxon Kingdoms.

We think such a compact is a treaty under the Circuit Court of Appeals Act, and, where its construction is directly involved, as it is here, there is a right of review by direct appeal to this court.

Johns, by nature as well as by education, was disposed to look distrustfully upon any sudden conviction of duty which had its spring in any extraordinary exaltation of feeling, rather than in that full intellectual seizure of the Divine Word, which it seemed to him could come only after a determined wrestling with those dogmas that to his mind were the aptest and compactest expression of the truth toward which we must agonize.

Twisting his automatics inside the compact bundle, he pushed the black cloth out between the bars.

A handkerchief, a fillet for your hair, a wreath of gold or silver, a breastpin, a mirror, a girdle, a purse, a tassel, a comb, sleeves, gloves, a ring, a compact, a picture, a washbasin, a flag but only as a souvenir.

Ithaca 37 pump S-shot with pistol grip and stock and a Mossberg 12-gauge bullpup 8-shot with sights fore and aft and compacted stock.

When Orsini attempted to execute the sentence of death on the Emperor of the French, in obedience to the order of the Carbonari, of which the Emperor was a member, he was, if the theory of the origin of government in compact be true, no more an assassin than was the officer who executed on the gallows the rebel spies and incendiaries Beal and Kennedy.

In some cases the clusters are quite compact, and in others the rooms are distributed in narrow rows.

The Harmonic Heptagon provides a compact visualisation of all the consonant relationships between notes in the diatonic scale, and a trip once around the heptagon corresponds to one syntonic comma.

They nailed the crossties over the trusses and then roped everything into a compact mass.

Yet if the rocks be compact, or if they have layers of a soft and clayey nature, we may find the construction water, even in very old deposits, remaining near the surface of the ground.

The human brain is really nothing more or less than a marvelously compact and efficient electrochemical battery.

Iupiter, compact of fower frustes, fortie Cubits high, fower Cubits broade, and two Cubits thick, in his deluber within the temple dooth manifest it selfe to be a wonderfull miracle.

He blamed my mother and the compact forced on him to place a Bene Gesserit on the throne.

I have my compact sure, and I ken that the Lord will no gie me a back-cast.