Definition of "compounder"

compounder

/kəmˈpaʊndə(ɹ)/

noun
plural compounders
1. A person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result)
2. One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.
  Quotations
  Compounders in politics.
  1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […]
3. One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
  Quotations
  Religious houses made compounders / For the horrid actions of their founders.
  1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905
4. (UK, archaic) One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
  Quotations
  The first of these two was a compounder, the other who was an accumulator, was lately made provost of Trin. coll. near Dublin, and on the 31st of March 1692 was nominated bish. of Kilmore.
  1691–92, Anthony Wood (antiquary), Athenæ Oxonienses
5. (UK, historical) A Jacobite who favoured the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.