compounder

A person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result)

a compounder of medicines

One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.

Compounders in politics.

One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.

Religious houses made compounders / For the horrid actions of their founders.

One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.

1691–92, Anthony Wood (antiquary), Athenæ Oxonienses 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.

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.