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        "From Middle English composen, from Old French composer (“to compose, compound, adjust, settle”), from com- + poser, as an adaptation of Latin componere (“to put together, compose”), from com- (“together”) + ponere (“to put, place”)."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To make something by merging parts. \nThe editor composed a historical journal from many individual letters.\nDecember 22 1678, Thomas Sprat, A Sermon Preached before the King at White-Hall\nZeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affection."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.\nA church is composed of its members.\n1741,  I Watts,  The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: , London:    James Brackstone, , →OCLC:\nA few useful things    compose their intellectual possessions."
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              "mean": "(transitive, nonstandard) To comprise."
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              "mean": "(transitive or intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.\nThe orator composed his speech over the week prior.\nNine numbered symphonies, including the Fifth, were composed by Beethoven.\nIt's difficult to compose without absolute silence.\n1714, Alexander Pope, Imitation of Horace, Book II. Sat. 6\nLet me    compose / Something in Verse as true as Prose.\n1838, Benjamin Haydon, Painting, and the fine arts\nthe genius that composed such works as the \"Standard\" and \"Last Supper\""
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              "mean": "(sometimes reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.\nTry to compose your thoughts.\nThe defendant couldn't compose herself and was found in contempt.\n1697,  Virgil,  “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. , London:    Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:Compose thy mind; / Nor frauds are here contrived, nor force designed."
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              "mean": "To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture."
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              "mean": "To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.\n2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 280:\nBy trying his best to compose matters with the mullahs, he had sincerely shown that he did not seek a violent collision"
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              "mean": "To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.\n1697,  Virgil,  “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. , London:    Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:\nIn a peaceful grave my corpse compose.\n1667,  John Milton,  “Book II”, in  Paradise Lost. , London:    , , →OCLC; republished as  Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:How in safety best we may / Compose our present evils."
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            {
              "mean": "(printing, dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset."
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