Dictionary entry

Compact (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Com‐pact″, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Compacted; p. pr. & vb. n.Compacting.] 1. To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; — as the parts which compose a body.

Now the bright sun compacts the precious stone.

Blackstone.

2. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth.

Eph. iv. 16.