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Compose [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. s as z. Literally, to place or set together. Hence,

2. To form a compound, or one entire body or thing, by uniting two or more things, parts, or individuals; as, to compose an army of raw soldiers; the parliament of G. Britain is composed of two houses, lords and commons; the senate of the United States is composed of two senators from each state.

3. Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affections.

4. To invent and put together words and sentences; to make, as a discourse or writing; to write, as an author; as, to compose a sermon, or a book.

5. To constitute, or form, as parts of a whole; as, letters compose syllables, syllables compose words, words compose sentences.

6. A few useful things, confounded with many trifles, fill their memories, and compose their intellectual possessions.

7. To calm; to quiet; to appease; to tranquilize; that is, to set or lay; as, to compose passions, fears, disorders, or whatever is agitated or excited.

8. To settle; to adjust; as, to compose differences.

9. To place in proper form, or in a quiet state.

10. In a peaceful grave my corpse compose

11. To settle into a quiet state.

12. The sea composes itself to a level surface. It requires about two days to compose it after a gale.

13. To dispose; to put in a proper state for any purpose.

14. The army seemed will composed to obtain that by their swords which they could not by their pen.

15. In printing, to set types or characters in a composing stick, from a copy, arranging the letters in the proper order.

16. In music, to form a tune or piece of music with notes, arranging them on the stave in such a manner as when sung to produce harmony.

Compose [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To come to terms.

Compose [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.

2. To form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute.

3. 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.

4. To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate.

5. To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet.

6. To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).

Composed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; free from agitation.

2. The Mantuan there is sober triumph sat,

3. COMPOSED his posture, and his look sedate.

Composed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Set together, or in due order; formed; constituted; calmed; quieted; settled; adjusted.

Composed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self-possessed.

Composed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Compose

Composedly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Calmly; seriously; sedately.

2. The man very composedly answered, I am he.

Composedness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A state of being composed; calmness; sedateness; tranquility.

Composer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who composes; one who writes an original work, as distinguished from a compiler; an author; also, one who forms tunes, whether he adapts them to particular words or not.

2. One who quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference.

Composer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music.

2. One who, or that which, quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference.