Pomped vs Comped - What's the difference?
pomped | comped |
(pomp)
Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
* 1698 . "A person of quality" [Pierre Nicole]. Moral Essayes, Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties. Vol I, p95.
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
* Addison
(comp)
A competition.
(British) A school
A complimentary ticket or item
A .
A computer, especially a desktop computer
Compensation.
A , a composition
A comptroller.
A (comprehensive examination).
A compile.
A compilation.
A comprehensive layout, a graphic design showing final proposed layout of text and images.
(US) To accompany, in music
To compose (a visual design); to make a composite.
To provide (a complimentary item, such as a ticket) to (someone).
As verbs the difference between pomped and comped
is that pomped is (pomp) while comped is (comp).pomped
English
Verb
(head)pomp
English
Noun
- "'Tis a gross visible errour, which Tertullian teaches in his Book of Idolatry cap. 18. That all the marks of Dignity and Power, and all the ornaments annexed to Office, are forbid Christians, and that Jesus Christ hath plac'd all these things amongst the pomps of the Devil, since he himself appeared in a condition so far from all pomp and splendour."
- The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.
- all the pomps of a Roman triumph