compages
compages compacted whole, framework of conjoined parts. XVII (earlier anglicized †compage). — L. compāges, f. com COM- + pāg- as in pangere (see prec.).
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Com- , com- repr. L. com-, arch. form of the prep. cum with, used in comps. with the meanings ‘together, in combination or union’, ‘altogether, completely’.… Compendious , compendious •Bierce, fierce, Pearce, Peirce, pierce, tierce •Fabius, scabious •Eusebius •amphibious, Polybius •dubious • Thaddeus • compendious •radi… lact- , lact- stem of L. lac, lact- milk (cf. Gr. gála, galakt-; see GALAXY) in derivs.: lactation XVII(f. L. lactāre), lacteal XVII (f. L. lacteus), lacteou… commensurable , com·men·su·ra·ble / kəˈmensərəbəl; kəˈmenshərəbəl/ • adj. 1. measurable by the same standard: the finite is not commensurable with the infinite. 2. (… Dot-com , At the most basic level, "dot-com" is simply a colloquial term born of the suffix appended to Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), as in www.companyname… Tsao Hsueh-chin , Ssu-ming
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