Dictionary entry

Compromise (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Com″pro‐mise, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Compromised (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Compromising.] [From Compromise, n.; cf. Compromit.] 1. To bind by mutual agreement; to agree.

Laban and himself were compromised

That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied

Should fall as Jacob's hire.

Shak.

2. To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.

The controversy may easily be compromised.

Fuller.

3. To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.

To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances.

Motley.