COMPOSITION, in a general sense, the uniting or putting together several things, so as to form one whole, called a compound.
COMPOSITION of Ideas, an act of the mind, whereby it unites several simple ideas into one conception or complex idea.
When we are provided with a sufficient stock of simple ideas, and have by habit and use rendered them familiar to our minds, they become the component parts of other ideas still more complicated, and form what we may call a second order of compound notions. This process may be continued to any degree of composition we please, mounting from one stage to another, and enlarging the number of combinations.