To compromise. Now rare, if not obsolete.
1787. The public reputation is in danger of being compromitted with him.—Tho. Jefferson, ‘Writings’ (1859), ii. 155. (N.E.D.)
1794. Liable to the danger of compromitting himself.—Gouverneur Morris, ‘Life,’ ii. 399. (N.E.D.)
1807. It has compromitted the faith of our government with those savage warriors, which, to enable any government ever to do good, should be held inviolate.—Z. M. Pike, ‘Sources of the Mississippi,’ i. App. 31. (N.E.D.)
1841. Carry this correspondence to the utmost extent. What is it more? How does it compromit this country?—John Q. Adams in the House of Repr., Sept. 4: Cong. Globe, p. 434, App.
1842. Mr. White of Louisiana said that civil liberty and the rights of man were daily compromitted, outraged, and trampled under foot, in Washington, by the manner of making arrests in cases of debt.—The same, June 18: id., p. 650.
