There was Miss Todd, the Compounder of it, a maiden lady, fat, fair, and perhaps almost forty; a jolly jovial lady, intent on seeing the world, and indifferent to many of its prejudices and formal restraints.
"The Bertrams"
Anthony Trollope
A Grand Compounder pays double fees.
"A Collection of College Words and Customs"
Benjamin Homer Hall
"A Petty Compounder," says the Oxford University Calendar, "must possess ecclesiastical income of the annual value of five shillings, or property of any other description amounting in all to the sum of five pounds, per annum."
"A Collection of College Words and Customs"
Benjamin Homer Hall