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compeer - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

compeer (plural compeers)

  • (obsolete) The equal or peer of someone else; a close companion or associate.
    • ✤ And him thus answer’d soon his bold compeer.1
    • ✤ She had fallen into the common error of supposing that the author must personify his works, and that his conversation must be copy and compeer of his writings.2

Verb

compeer (third-person singular simple present compeers, present participle compeering, simple past and past participle compeered)

  • To be equal with; to match.
    • ✤ In my rights,/By me invested, he compeers the best.3

Etymology

From Middle English comper, from Middle French comper, from Latin compater, compatrem. Doublet of compere as well as compadre and goombah. Influenced by folk-etymological analysis as com- +‎ peer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /kəmˈpɪə(ɹ)/, /kɒmˈpɪə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

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Footnotes

  1. 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a] nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a] nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC: ↩

  2. 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 155–156: ↩

  3. c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]: ↩

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