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 Comprehension: f. A comprehension, containing; apprehension, vnderstanding of.

Comprendre. To comprehend, containe, comprise, compasse; to perceiue, vnderstand, apprehend, attaine vnto the knowledge of; to conceiue, to be capable of.

Comprer. as Comparer; To buy: ¶Pic. Compresse: f. A boulster, pillow, or fould of linnen, to bind vp, or lay on, a wound.

Comprimé: m. ée: f. Pressed, squeezed, thrust, closed, or strained hard together.

Comprimer. To presse, to squeeze, to thrust, close, or straine, together.

Comprimeur: m. A presser, thruster, squeezer together.

Comprins: m. inse: f. Comprised, comprehended, contained within the compasse, or limits, of.

Compromettre. To compromit, or put vnto compromise.

Compromis: m. A compromise; a mutuall promise of aduersaries to referre their differences vnto arbitrement; or, a priuate power to end a controuersie, giuen by the mutuall consent of the parties in controuersie.

Compromis: m. ise: f. Compromitted, put vnto compromise.

Compromissaire: m. He vnto whom a controuersie is compromitted.

Comptable: com. Accountable, accountant, lyable vnto account.

Comptant. Counting, accounting, reckoning numbring.  Argent comptant. Readie money; Looke Argent.  Bailler comptant. To giue readie money; to pay presently, out of hand, or downe in hand.

Compte: m. An account, a reckoning; a computation, or calculation; a number; also, a respect had, regard made, of; also, the reason, or cause of a matter; also, a fib, gull, tale; an idle, or vnlikelie tale, historie, relation; (See Conte.) La chambre des comptes. The Court of Accounts; the Exchequer, or Exchequer chamber. Homme de bon compte. One that is true in all his dealings; a right honest man. Ligne de compte. Seeke Ligne. Perle de compte. A Paragon; a faire, great, Orientall Pearle. Rouë de compte. A notch-wheele (in a watch, or clocke.) Petis comptes. Trifling words, ridiculous tearmes, toyes to mocke Apes withall. À ton compte. As thou tellest it; or, as thou thinkest, or makest account; according to thy reason. Hors de compte. Se voyant hors &c; Seeing, that he had mist of his reckoning; or, that matters answered not his expectation. Abreger son compte. To make the matter short. Avoir son compte. To be merie, iollie, liuelie, light-*hearted, all-a-hoight; Looke Avoir. C'est le compte. This reckoning fals out right. Il est bien au compte de la douzaine. He is a sorie fellow, sillie mate, simple companion. Servir dieu par compte. That is, iust so many times a day, weeke, moneth, yeare, &c, and no more. Tenir compte. To score, or keepe reckoning. Tenir compte de. To prize, respect, esteeme, regard, make reckoning of. Trouver son compte. Ie trouve mō compte. I haue reason for it; or, it appeares by my reckoning; I know it well ynough; I am certaine of it; my conceit of it falls out right. À vieux comptes nouvelles disputes: Pro. Old accounts breed new disputations (whereto, either their disorder, or the forgetfulnesse of those they concerne, makes them verie subiect.)  Qui vit à compte il vit à honte: Prov. Hee liues but shamefully that reckons all he spends; (yet is there verie little difference betweene a gallant that knowes not how, and a gull that cares not what, he spends.)

Compté: m. ée: f. Told, reckoned, numbred, counted, calculated, accounted.

Comptement: m. A counting, telling, reckoning, numbring, calculating, accounting.

Compter. To count, account, reckon, tell, number; to calculate, or cast, an account; also, to make, or giue vp, an account; also, to fib, fable, cog, talke vainely, chat idly, tell a foolish, fabulous, or vnlikelie, tale.  Compter les ais, & souliveaux. To picke strawes, to loose time, or spend it to small purpose.  Compter les chevilles. When one makes another wait a little too long at his doore before he open it, the Frenchmen say, c'est luy faire compter les chevilles; viz. To mocke, or amuse him to no purpose; and when they wil threaten to make one attend long for the thing he desires, they say, Ie te feray compter des chevilles; (I will make you coole your heeles before you haue it;) and hence, are most Courtiers tearmed, grands compteurs de Chevilles.  Compter les cloux. The same; or, to loose time; or consume it in idle feasting.  Compter sans son hoste. (We say the same) to reckon without his host; Looke Hoste.  Qui compte sans son  hoste, il faut qu'il compte deux fois: Prov. Hee that reckons without his host must reckon twice; he that concludes, or determines of, businesse, without the priuitie, or presence of him whom it most concerns, is like ynough to heare of it, or be troubled with it, at least once more.  Vne fois faut compter à l'hoste: Prov. Our account must be made, our reckoning paid; (our liues examined, our vices censured) one time or other.  Apres compter il faut boire: Prov. Looke Boire. C'est vn marchant qui prend l'argent sans compter, ni peser. One of Saint Nicholas Clerks; or an arrant theefe.

Comptereau: m. A booke of accounts; a bill of reckoning.

Compteur: m. A reckoner, counter, accounter; a caster of accounts; also, the Numerator; or figure that stands aboue the line, in an Arithmeticall fraction.  Compteur de chevilles. An ordinarie, or thred-bare Courtier; as in Compter les chevilles.

Comptoir: m. A Counter, or Table to cast accounts on.  Comptoir de chemin. A box, cabinet, or little coffer to carrie letters, or other writings in.

Compulsé: m. ée: f. Compelled, forced, constrained vnto.

Compulser. To compell, force, constraine vnto.

Compulsoire: f. A compelling, or compulsion; also, an instrument or meanes of compulsion; also, a commission inioyning a Register, Notarie, or Clerke, to deliuer the contracts, pleadings, acts, orders, or iudgements which a suiter hath need of.

Compunction: f. Compunction, remorse; the pricke, or sting of conscience.

Compurgateur: m. A compurgator; one that by oath iustifies the (innocencie) report, or oath, of another.

Computiste: m. A computist, or computatist; a reckoner, calculator, or counter of.