Incapacitating him from successfully compounding a
tale of this sort. --Sir W.
Scott.
2. To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in
order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.
We have the power of altering and compounding those
images into all the varieties of picture. --Addison.
3. To modify or change by combination with some other thing
or part; to mingle with something else.
Only compound me with forgotten dust. --Shak.
4. To compose; to constitute. [Obs.]
His pomp and all what state compounds. --Shak.
5. To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise;
to discharge from obligation upon terms different from
those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt.
I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.
--Shak.
{To compound a felony}, to accept of a consideration for
forbearing to prosecute, such compounding being an
indictable offense. See {Theftbote}.