compear

• compeer
• compeir

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compear (third-person singular simple present compears, present participle compearing, simple past and past participle compeared)

1. (obsolete) To appear before.
2. (obsolete, law, Scotland) To appear before a judge in court, either in person or acting as an attorney.

• compearance
• noncompearance

• “compear”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• compare, pomerac, precoma