Crossword clues for compose
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compose \Com*pose"\, v. i.
To come to terms. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Compose \Com*pose"\ (k[o^]m*p[=o]z"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Composed; p. pr. & vb. n. Composing.] [F. composer; com- + poser to place. The sense is that of L. componere, but the origin is different. See Pose, v. t.]
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To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.
Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affection.
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To form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute.
Their borrowed gold composed The calf in Oreb.
--Milton.A few useful things . . . compose their intellectual possessions.
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To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture.
Let me compose Something in verse as well as prose.
--Pope.The genius that composed such works as the ``Standard'' and ``Last Supper''.
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To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate.
In a peaceful grave my corpse compose.
--Dryden.How in safety best we may Compose our present evils.
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To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet.
Compose thy mind; Nor frauds are here contrived, nor force designed.
--Dryden. (Print.) To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, compousen, from Old French composer "put together, arrange, write" a work (12c.), from com- "with" (see com-) + poser "to place," from Late Latin pausare "to cease, lay down" (see pause (n.)). Meaning influenced in Old French by componere (see composite; also see pose (v.)). Musical sense is from 1590s. Related: Composed; composing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make something by merging parts. (from later 15th c.) 2 (context transitive English) To make up the whole; to constitute. 3 (context transitive nonstandard English) To comprise. 4 (context transitive or intransitive English) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work. 5 (context sometimes reflexive English) To calm; to free from agitation. 6 To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture. 7 To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement. 8 To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition. 9 (context printing dated English) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.
WordNet
v. form the substance of; "Greed and ambition composed his personality"
write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies" [syn: write]
produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels" [syn: write, pen, indite]
put together out of existing material; "compile a list" [syn: compile]
calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet; "She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult"
draw up the plans or basic details for; "frame a policy" [syn: frame, draw up]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "compose".
In composing the picture, Trumbull had placed Adams at the exact center foreground, as if to leave no doubt about his importance.
It was his creative work that he wished most to be remembered for: Here Was Buried THOMAS JEFFERSON Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia Adams had, however, composed an inscription to be carved into the sarcophagus lid of Henry Adams, the first Adams to arrive in Massachusetts, in 1638.
While the man was preparing his pens and ink and setting a disc of red wax to soften on a sun-warmed stone, the Aedile composed in his head the letter he needed to write.
The main body of ancient tradition here agrees with the evidence of language: the poems are composed in the Ionic dialect, with an admixture of Aeolic forms.
On the news that the Porpoise fleet, composed of six hundred great ships, was in sight of Alca, the bishop ordered a solemn procession.
Raised by her parents from Mahon on a small farm in the Sahel, she was very young when she married a slender and delicate man, also of Mahon origin, whose brothers had already settled in Algeria by 1848, after the tragic death of the paternal grandfather, a sometime poet who composed his verses mounted on a donkey and riding around the island between stone walls that bordered vegetable gardens.
All we need is a team composed of specialist Alpinists, Commandos, mountaineers and safe-breakers and what do we have?
Here, again, is another resemblance to the conductor, who can impose his own will on the orchestra, altho he may not be able to play one of the instruments in it, and altho he may be quite incapable of composing.
He also sang as basso of the Temple Emanuel from 1874 to 1888, thirteen consecutive years, and was the basso profundo of that celebrated male quartette, The Amphions, composed of Joseph Maguire, H.
It was composed, after a careful consideration and comparison of the principal Anglican divines of the seventeenth century.
He supposed that it might very well be composed of the same sort of material used to make the ants themselves.
The nations which composed the formidable conspiracy against Rome were eight in number--the Marsians, Pelignians, Marrucinians, Vestinians, Picentines, Samnites, Apulians, and Lucanians.
Don Quixote of La Mancha, composed not by Cide Hamete, its first author, but by an Aragonese who is, he says, a native of Tordesillas.
It was composed in Aramaic two thousand years ago by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.
For the Word in its bosom is spiritual, containing arcana of divine wisdom, and in order to contain them has been composed throughout in correspondences and representations.