Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Compounder \Com*pound"er\, n.
   1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
      compounder of medicines.

   2. One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of
      agreement, or to accomplish, ends by compromises.
      ``Compounders in politics.'' --Burke.

   3. One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.

            Religious houses made compounders For the horrid
            actions of their founders.            --Hudibras.

   4. One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the
      degree he is to take. [Eng.] --A. Wood.

   5. (Eng. Hist.) A Jacobite who favored 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.