[f. compress- ppl. stem of L. comprimĕre + -URE: cf. PRESSURE, L. pressūra.] The action or process of compressing: pressure together; † repression.
1644. Digby, Nat. Bodies, xxix. (1658), 313. The superficies … is better, or worse disposed to reflection of light, by polishing, or by compressure together.
1655–60. Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), 180. The compressure of Seditions.
1713. Derham, Phys.-Theol., I. i. 5. I … Compressed the Air, but the Engine leaking, I frequently renewed the Compressure.
1833. Fraser’s Mag., VII. 588. Curious … is this same compressure of History.
1841. Mrs. Tonna, Pers. Recollect. (1843), ii. 39. Compressure of the feet was with equal strictness forbidden by my judicious father.
