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Compile v. t. (past & past part. compiled; pres. part. compiling)

To put together; to construct; to build. (Obs.) "Before that Merlin died, he did intend A brazen wall in compass to compile."

To contain or comprise. (Obs.) "Which these six books compile."

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."

To write; to compose. (Obs.)

(Computers) To process (computer program source code) with a compiler (2) to produce an assembly-language program or an executable program in machine language.

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"Compiling" Quotes from Famous Books

... second century, and whose account of his travels bears the date of A.D. 175. Pausanias did for ancient Greece what Joanne, the industrious and clever Frenchman did for the other countries of Europe, in compiling the "Traveller's Guide." His account, a most reliable one on all points, and most exact even in details, was one upon which travellers of the second century might safely depend in their journeys through the ...

— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part I. The Exploration of the World • Jules Verne

... female as well as the male was created in the image of God. To those who regarded every word of the Bible as inspired by God, The Woman's Bible was heresy, and both the clergy and the press stirred up a storm of protest against it. Suffragists were condemned for compiling a new Bible and were obliged to explain again and again that The Woman's Bible expressed Mrs. Stanton's personal views and not those ...

— Susan B. Anthony - Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian • Alma Lutz

... these remarkable Rules there have been several guesses. Washington Irving suggests that it was probably his intercourse with the Fairfax family, and his ambition to acquit himself well in their society, that set him upon "compiling a code of morals and manners." (Knickerbocker Ed. i. p. 30.) Sparks, more cautiously, says: "The most remarkable part of the book is that in which is compiled a system of maxims and regulations of conduct, drawn from miscellaneous sources." (i. p. 7.) Dr. Toner says: "Having searched in vain ...

— George Washington's Rules of Civility - Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway • Moncure D. Conway

... of the Empress Suiko (593-628) that the historical project took practical shape. Her Majesty, at the instance, doubtless, of Prince Shotoku, one of the greatest names in all Japan's annals, instructed the prince himself and her chief minister, Soga no Umako, to undertake the task of compiling historical documents, and there resulted a Record of the Emperors (Tennoki), a Record of the Country (Koki), and Original Records (Hongi) of the Free People (i.e., the Japanese proper as distinguished from aliens, ...

— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi

... women is the percentage that have married before the end of the child-bearing period. Classes graduating later than 1888 are therefore not included, and the record shows the marital status in the fall of 1912. In compiling these data deceased members and the few lost from record are of ...

— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

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