compotations

Nor do I remember me of any fee or honorarium received from him on account of these my labours, except the compotations aforesaid.

Old Mortality 2004

Nor do I remember me of any fee or honorarium received from him on account of these my labours, except the compotations aforesaid.

The Black Dwarf 2004

They have regular clubs, at which they meet to collate the gathered slang and pilfered witticisms of the week; periodical compotations to work these materials into something like a readable shape; and hebdomadal journals, by means of which their choice productions are issued to a wondering world.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

She herself had no other amusement, as she sat facing one of the great oriel windows, the same by which Wildrake had on a former occasion looked in upon Tomkins and Joceline while at their compotations, than watching the clouds, which a lazy wind sometimes chased from the broad disk of the harvest-moon, sometimes permitted to accumulate, and exclude her brightness.

Woodstock 1855

DREGY, DERGY, _s. _ the compotations after a funeral.

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. Alexander Leighton 1837

Page 203 speaking, the sediment of the population, whose occasions had brought them to the court house, had repaired hither to enjoy the compotations and arguments that are apt to abound in such assemblages.

Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1832

The voracity of the former was astonishing, nor was that of the latter much less; and when the dishes were removed and the tables cleared for their compotations, the faces of both gentlemen appeared as if they were about to explode.

The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831

He moreover built other edifices for pleasure; as also very long cloisters, and those situate in an agreeable place of the palace; and among them a most glorious dining-room, for feastings and compotations, and full of gold, and such other furniture as so fine a room ought to have for the conveniency of the guests, and where all the vessels were made of gold.

Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I Francis Augustus Cox 1818

She herself had no other amusement, as she sat facing one of the great oriel windows, the same by which Wildrake had on a former occasion looked in upon Tomkins and Joceline while at their compotations, than watching the clouds, which a lazy wind sometimes chased from the broad disk of the harvest-moon, sometimes permitted to accumulate, and exclude her brightness.

Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801

Nor do I remember me of any fee or honorarium received from him on account of these my labours, except the compotations aforesaid.

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801