composition

1. (obsolete) An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce.Examples: "It will stoope and yeeld upon better compositions to him that shall make head against it."; "If the Duke, with the other dukes, come not to composition with the king of Hungary, why then all the dukes fall upon the king."; "That now Sweno, the Norways’ king, craves composition: Nor would we deign him burial of his men Till he disbursed at Saint Colme’s inch Ten thousand dollars to our general use."countableobsoleteuncountable

2. (obsolete) A payment of money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling or fine.Examples: "He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in Florence, of a most chaste renown; and this night he fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour: he hath given her his monumental ring, and thinks himself made in the unchaste composition."; "That all and every person and persons already convicted or prosecuted in order to conviction of recusancy […] shall be thenceforth exempted and discharged from all the penalties, seizures, forfeitures, judgments, and executions, incurred by force of any of the aforesaid Statutes, without any composition, fee, or further charge whatsoever."; "Insidious death! should his strong hand arrest, No composition sets the prisoner free."countableobsoleteuncountable

3. (obsolete) A payment of money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling or fine.Singaporecountableobsoleteuncountable

4. (law) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.countableuncountable

5. (linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words.countableuncountable

6. (printing) Typesetting.countableuncountable