compose

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
compose/kəmˈpəʊz/

▶verb

• 1 write or create (a musical or written work).

  ■ arrange so as to form an artistic whole.

• 2 (of elements) constitute or make up (a whole).

• 3 (often as adj. composed) calm or settle (one's features or thoughts).

• 4 prepare (a text) for printing by setting up the characters to be printed.

• 5 archaic settle (a dispute).

– derivatives
composedly adverb.

– origin ME: from OFr. composer, from L. componere (see component), but influenced by L. compositus ‘composed’ and OFr. poser ‘to place’.