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/compromise/

-) Verb.

-) Pronunciation and accent: kɒmprəmaɪz.

 -) Etymology: from the noun COMPROMISE.

-) It is dated from the end of 1500.

-) Transitively: 1. Obsolete acceptation: (of an arbiter) to harmonize or make harmonious (two opposite claims, differences, etc.) between parties; to adjust.

-) 2. Obsolete: to be compromised: to be agreed as the result of compromise.

-) 3. (Of contending parties) to end (a disagreement, dispute, differences) by compromise or mutual concession.

-) Synonyms for “compromise”: settle, compound.

-) Translation: dirimer, in French; dirimir, in Spanish; dirimere, in Italian.

… through the mediation of the state of Venice the dispute was compromised.

The Athenaeum: A Magazine… 1807

… by the interposition of friends, the dispute was compromised…

David Hughson… London… 1808

[…] a proposal was made for compromising their differences and establishing a durable reconciliation…

Gillingwater… 1847

-) 4. Obsolete acceptation: to entrust (something) to a person for his decision. 

-) 5. To expose (oneself, somebody, or something immaterial, as reputation) to danger or risk.

-) Synonyms: imperil, endanger, risk.

You have not compromised my name, I hope.

George Rainsford… Thirty years since… 1848

[…] Miss Skiffins—in the absence of the little servant […]—washed up the tea-things, in a trifling lady-like amateur manner that compromised none of us.

Dickens… Great Expectations… 1861

Do you not remember our together deploring the imprudence of that wretched Miss Lorn, who voluntarily compromised herself by going to young Laurence's room?

Maillard… Loving and being loved… 1853

-) Intransitively: 1. (Of two or more persons) to establish an agreement with somebody by mutual concession after having disputed.

The Squire seemed inflexible at first, but at last compromised with us…

The Little Corporal, Volumes 5-10… 1867

And the second burglar. How about him?" asked Mr. Pedagog.

"Oh, he was easy," said the Idiot. "I compromised with him. […] I met him on his way out. I was coming home late, and, just as I arrived, he was leaving. I invited him back, lit the gas in the dining-room, and asked him to join me in a bit of cold tongue and a bottle of beer. He tried to shuffle out of it, but, when I said I preferred to reason with him rather than have him arrested, he sat down, and we talked the situation over.

Kendrick Bangs… The Idiot at Home… 1900

Dora wanted him to take her to dinner in the main dining room of the hotel, and he evaded and compromised by taking her there late at night when not many people were present.

Fergusson… The Conquerors… 1921

-) 2. Metaphor: (of a person) to make a compromise between opposite opinions, principles, etc.; to establish an agreement between incompatible things.

-) Words derived from the noun COMPROMISE: compromiser, compromising, compromisingly, uncompromising, uncompromisingly.