compact ppl. a.1 [Latin ‘compact-’ from ‘compingere’ to fasten together]
1.
knit together Lr. I. ii. 7.
2.
made up or composed
“of”
Err. III. ii. 22,
MND. V. i. 8
“of imagination all
compact,”
AYL. II. vii. 5, Tit. V. iii. 88,
Ven. 149
“a spirit all compact of
fire.”
3.
solid Lucr. 1423.
