compounder

noun5

1. •
   A person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result)

   • a compounder of medicines
2. •
   One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.

   • Religious houses made compounders / For the horrid actions of their founders. — 1662
3. •
   One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.

   • Compounders in politics. — 1790
4. •
   (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.
5. •
   (UK, no longer used) One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.

   • 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