From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
[en] From [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
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1. Calmness of mind or temperament
2. * [book=6]
3. * [chapter=3]
4. * [XII]
5. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1894 | translator=w:Arthur Machen | title= [Histoire de ma vie] | author=w:Giacomo Casanova | location=London | publisher=Elek Books | volume=4 | chapter=16 | page=407 | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.460279
|passage=He began to lose his COMPOSURE, and made mistakes, his cards got
mixed up, and his scoring was wild.}}
1. * {{ quote-web
|en |date=September 2, 2011 |author= |title=Wales 2-1 Montenegro |work=BBC
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14660870.stm |page=
|passage=Montenegro's early COMPOSURE was shaken by that set-back and a
visibly buoyed Wales nearly added a second goal when Bale broke past two
defenders and fired a long-range shot that Bozovic tipped over}}
1. [en] The act of composing
2. * 1818 , [John Evelyn] , _Memoirs_ , edited by [William Bray (antiquary)] , London: Henry Colburn, 2nd edition, Volume I, entry for 10 March, 1685, p. 592, <sup> see https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008589041 </sup>
3. *: [...] Sign <sup> r </sup> Pietro [...] had an admirable way both of COMPOSURE [ in music ] and teaching.
4. [en] Something which is composed; a composition .
5. [en] Orderly adjustment; disposition .
6. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1695 | author= [John Woodward (naturalist)] | title=An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies | location=London | publisher=Richard Wilkin | section=Part 5, p. 230 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67007.0001.001
|passage=[...] from the various _COMPOSURES_ and Combinations of these
Corpusoles together, happen all the Varieties of the Bodies formed out of them
[...]}}
1. [en] Frame ; make ; temperament .
2. * [I]
3. [en] A combination ; a union ; a bond .
4. * [II]
[Webster 1913]
**** Synonyms
- [calmness] [en] , [en] ,
- [calmness] See also Thesaurus:calm
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[calmness of mind or matter, self-possession]
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