compose
• verb 1 create (a work of art, especially music or poetry). 2 constitute or make up (a whole). 3 arrange in an orderly or artistic way. 4 often composed calm or settle (one’s features or thoughts). 5 prepare (a text) for printing by setting up the characters to be printed. — ORIGIN Old French composer, from Latin componere ‘put together’.
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