write or create (a work of art, especially music or poetry)

he composed the First Violin Sonata four years earlier

(of elements) constitute or make up (a whole, or a specified part of it)

the National Congress is composed of ten senators

Christians compose 40 per cent of the state's population

calm or settle (oneself or one's features or thoughts)

she tried to compose herself

prepare (a text) for printing by manually, mechanically, or electronically setting up the letters and other characters in the order to be printed

in offices where close-set text was composed both men and women pieceworkers were normally employed