compounder

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compounder - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Compounder \Com*pound"er\, n.
     1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
        compounder of medicines.
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     2. One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of
        agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.
        "Compounders in politics." --Burke.
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     3. One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
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              Religious houses made compounders
              For the horrid actions of their founders.
                                                    --Hudibras.
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     4. One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the
        degree he is to take. [Eng.] --A. Wood.
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     5. (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.
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compounder - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  COMPOUNDER, in Louisiana. He who makes a composition. An amicable compounder 
  is one who has undertaken by the agreement of the parties to compound or 
  settle differences. between them. Code of Pract. of Lo. art. 444.