Definition of "compeer"

compeer

/kəmˈpɪə(ɹ)/

noun
plural compeers
1. (obsolete) The equal or peer of someone else; a close companion or associate.
  Quotations
  And him thus answer'd soon his bold compeer.
  1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  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.
  1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], pages 155–156
verb
third-person singular simple present compeers, present participle compeering, simple past and past participle compeered
1. To be equal with; to match.
  Quotations
  In my rights, / By me invested, he compeers the best.
  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, [Act V, scene iii]