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compeer

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Definition:
a peer; a companion

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It was inevitable and there was no use repining; for so profoundly had the phalanstery schooled the minds and natures of those two unhappy young parents (and all their compeers), that, grieve as they might, they never for one moment dreamt of attempting to relax or set aside the fundamental principles of phalansteric society in these matters.

Grant Allen. Strange Stories.
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 Your sooty, smoky-bearded compeer, he
 Will close you so much gold, in a bolt's-head,
 And, on a turn, convey in the stead another
 With sublimed mercury, that shall burst in the heat,
 And fly out all in fumo!

Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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It remains for a more profound analysis than the world has yet seen, fully to investigate and express them. Nevertheless is he confirmed in his instinctive opinions, by the concurrence of all his compeers.

Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The Landscape Garden (1842)
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