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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Compile  \Com*pile"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Compiled};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Compiling}.]  [F.  compiler,  fr.L.  compilare  to 
  plunder,  pillage;  com-  +  pilare  to  plunder.  See  {Pill},  v. 
  t.,  Pillage.] 
  1.  To  put  together;  to  construct;  to  build.  [Obs.] 
 
  Before  that  Merlin  died,  he  did  intend  A  brazen  wall 
  in  compass  to  compile.  --Spenser. 
 
  2.  To  contain  or  comprise.  [Obs.] 
 
  Which  these  six  books  compile.  --Spenser. 
 
  3.  To  put  together  in  a  new  form  out  of  materials  already 
  existing;  esp.,  to  put  together  or  compose  out  of 
  materials  from  other  books  or  documents. 
 
  He  [Goldsmith]  compiled  for  the  use  of  schools  a 
  History  of  Rome.  --Macaulay. 
 
  4.  To  write;  to  compose.  [Obs.]  --Sir  W.  Temple. 




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