v. Obs. rare. [Variant of COMPACT v., prob. mainly phonetic, but perh. partly due to erroneous association with PACK v.]

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  1.  = COMPACT v.1; to pack together, combine.

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1584.  T. Hudson, Judith, I., in Sylvester, Du Bartas (1621), 696. Children … mo then Northren windes … Of Cyrene sands in numbers can compack.

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1605.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. vi. (1605–7), I. 221. Th’ Art of Man not onely can compack Features and formes that life and motion lack.

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  2.  = COMPACT v.2; to enter into a compact, league.

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a. 1618.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, Decay (1621), 496. Winter-Storms with absent Stars compack, With th’ angry Waters to conspire her wrack.

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