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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Compare \Com*pare"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Compared}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Comparing}.] [L.comparare, fr. compar like or equal
     to another; com- + par equal: cf. F. comparer. See {Pair},
     {Peer} an equal, and cf. {Compeer}.]
     1. To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or
        more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering


        their resemblances or differences; to bring into
        comparison; to regard with discriminating attention.
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              Compare dead happiness with living woe. --Shak.
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              The place he found beyond expression bright,
              Compared with aught on earth.         --Milton.
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              Compare our faces and be judge yourself. --Shak.
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              To compare great things with small.   --Milton.
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     2. To represent as similar, for the purpose of illustration;
        to liken.
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              Solon compared the people unto the sea, and orators
              and counselors to the winds; for that the sea would
              be calm and quiet if the winds did not trouble it.
                                                    --Bacon.
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     3. (Gram.) To inflect according to the degrees of comparison;
        to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of;
        as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by
        affixing "- er" and "-est" to the positive form; as,
        black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one syllable
        are usually compared by prefixing "more" and "most", or
        "less" and "least", to the positive; as, beautiful, more
        beautiful, most beautiful.
  
     Syn: To {Compare}, {Compare with}, {Compare to}.
  
     Usage: Things are compared with each other in order to learn
            their relative value or excellence. Thus we compare
            Cicero with Demosthenes, for the sake of deciding
            which was the greater orator. One thing is compared to
            another because of a real or fanciful likeness or
            similarity which exists between them. Thus it has been
            common to compare the eloquence of Demosthenes to a
            thunderbolt, on account of its force, and the
            eloquence of Cicero to a conflagration, on account of
            its splendor. Burke compares the parks of London to
            the lungs of the human body.
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