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Compare (v. t.) To
inflect according to the
degrees of
comparison; to state
positive, comparative, and
superlative forms of; as, most
adjectives of one
syllable are
compared by
affixing - er and -est to the
positive form; as,
black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one
syllable are
usually compared by
prefixing more and most, or less and
least, to the
positive; as,
beautiful, more
beautiful, most
beautiful..