non-comˈpounder
[non- 2.]
One who does not compound; spec. Hist. a member of that section of the Jacobite party shortly after the Revolution which desired the restoration of James II without imposing any conditions on him.
| 1651 Biggs New Disp. 41 ¶77 Those [herbs] who are..listed in the bills of mortality, excepted against in the list of non-compounders with the State of our vital Œconomy [etc.]. 1827 [see compounder 2 b]. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xx. IV. 385 The Non-compounders thought it downright Whiggery, downright rebellion, to take advantage of His Majesty's unfortunate situation for the purpose of imposing on him any condition. 1886 A. Fergusson Laird of Lag v. 103 This incorrigible offender aginst Whig Rule and inveterate ‘non-compounder’. |