What is "compensated"

Usage examples of "compensated".

The interest of a riparian owner in keeping the level of a navigable stream low enough to maintain a power head for his use was not one for which he was entitled to be compensated when the Government raised the level by erecting a dam to improve navigation.

I am still convinced that the apparent ostentation would be more than compensated by real use.

The inferiority of number was, however, compensated by the advantage of the ground.

The loss of sensual pleasure was supplied and compensated by spiritual pride.

These evils, however terrible they may appear, were confined to the smaller number of Roman subjects, whose dangerous situation was in some degree compensated by the enjoyment of those advantages, either of nature or of fortune, which exposed them to the jealousy of the monarch.

These losses, however, were compensated by splendid and decisive success.

These imperfections, however, are compensated in some degree by the poetical virtues of Claudian.

Eutropius seem to have compensated for the folly of the design by any superior merit or ability in the execution.

But the sylvan deities were less implacable, and the extirpation of a more valuable tree was compensated by the moderate fine of twenty-five pounds of copper.

Nor are the defects of the subject compensated by the skill and variety of the painters.

Mahomet compensated the loss, by resigning to the soldiers his fifth of the plunder, and wished, for their sake, that he possessed as many head of cattle as there were trees in the province of Tehama.

But the loss of one mystery was amply compensated by the stupendous doctrines of original sin, redemption, faith, grace, and predestination, which have been strained from the epistles of St.

The capital of the Zeirides was named Africa from the country, and Mahadia from the Arabian founder: it is strongly built on a neck of land, but the imperfection of the harbor is not compensated by the fertility of the adjacent plain.

Isle of Crete, his exclusion from the throne was compensated by the royal title and the provinces beyond the Hellespont.

I hope and believe that if both the nation and the States would, in good faith, in their respective spheres do what they could in the way of improvements, what of inequality might be produced in one place might be compensated in another, and the sum of the whole might not be very unequal.