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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Compact \Com*pact"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Compacted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Compacting}.]
1. To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body.
Now the bright sun compacts the precious stone. --Blackstone.
2. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth. --Eph. iv. 16.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Compacted \Com*pact"ed\ (k[o^]m*p[a^]kt"[e^]d), adjective Compact; pressed close; concentrated; firmly united.
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