Careful Words

compound (n.)

compound (v.)

compound (adj.)

Compound for sins they are inclined to,

By damning those they have no mind to.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 215.

  The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.