Synonyms:
compose
Meaning: form the substance of; "Greed and ambition composed his personality"
Synonyms:
compose, write
Meaning: write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
Synonyms:
write, compose, pen, indite
Meaning: produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"
Synonyms:
compose, compile
Meaning: put together out of existing material; "compile a list"
Synonyms:
compose
Meaning: calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet; "She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult"
Usage examples
I will compose a homily and read it to her."
"Pray compose yourself," pleaded the persuasive Wragge.
"Nay, my beloved, sweetest friend," continued the other, "compose yourself.
Now, pray compose yourself!" (I was looking at him in speechless astonishment.) "Take it easy; pray take it easy!
When at his type, he would often compose paragraphs for the paper, setting up the words without writing them out.
For all good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their beautiful poems not by art, but because they are inspired and possessed.
With what endless care, with what unsparing labour, do we not strive to get together for our great national council the men most fitting to compose it.
Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.
The Commander of the Faithful Harun Al-Rashid was exceeding restless one night and rising from his bed, paced from chamber to chamber, but could not compose himself to sleep.
"From ocean to ocean"--so say the Americans; and these four words compose the general designation of the "great trunk line" which crosses the entire width of the United States.