The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compounder \Com*pound"er\, n.
One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines.
One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises. ``Compounders in politics.''
--Burke.-
One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
Religious houses made compounders For the horrid actions of their founders.
--Hudibras. One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take. [Eng.]
--A. Wood.(Eng. Hist.) A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.
Usage examples of "compounder".
Had he dreamed of what materials was made that young compounder of doses at Greshamsbury he would have met him in consultation, morning, noon, and night, without objection.
Her corn-cake, in all its varieties of hoe-cake, dodgers, muffins, and other species too numerous to mention, was a sublime mystery to all less practised compounders.