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comˈpounded, ppl. a.
[f. compound v. + -ed1.]
1. Formed by the combination of various elements or the mixture of various ingredients.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. ii. 8 The braine of this foolish compounded Clay-man, is not able to inuent any thing, etc. 1613― Hen. VIII, i. i. 13 What foure Thron'd ones could haue weigh'd Such a compounded one? 1660Barrow Euclid v. Def. 14 Compounded ratio is when the antecedent and consequent taken both as one are compared to the consequent itself. 1691Tryon Wisd. Dictates 10 Sweet compounded Foods. 1789Saunders in Phil. Trans. LXXIX. 104 A compounded medicine made up of above thirty different ingredients. 1874Sayce Compar. Philol. vi. 241 Latin and Greek..possess but few compounded roots in common.
†2. Combined, taken in combination; collective.
1658Bramhall Consecr. Bps. xi. 223 If these words be considered coniointly in a compounded sense. 1725Watts Logic iii. iii. §1 The Sophism of Division is when we infer the same Thing concerning Ideas in a divided Sense, which is only true in a compounded Sense.
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a. Compound, composite, complex. Mostly Obs. Cf. compounded interest: see compound a. 2 b. quot. 1660.
1570Billingsley Euclid i. i. 9 Composition passeth..from thinges simple to thinges more compounded. 1594Blundevil Exerc. i. xxix. (ed. 7) 78 If the number be compounded, that is to say, consisting of Integrums and Fractions. 1694W. Holder Harmony (1731) 40 These Compounded Concords are found..by their Habitude to the Original Concords. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1721) 102 There it was that Judas..met with his compounded death. 1711J. Greenwood Eng. Gram. 213 A Sentence or Saying is either single or compounded. 1768Holland in Phil. Trans. LVIII. 46 A monthly astronomical clock..with a compounded pendulum. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 320 Almost all compounded sentences, are more or less elliptical.
†b. Archit. = composite. Obs.
a1639Wotton Ground Rules Archit. (1676) 11 Eight Columns of the Compounded Order.
4. compounded tenancy, tenancy by which the tenant's rates are included in his rent, and paid by the landlord.
1905Daily Chron. 18 May 3/4 The owners of ‘flats’ and other ‘compounded’ tenancies get off with so much abatement. |