decompoundedadj.
I. Made up of compound parts.
1. Further compounded; made up of compound constituents: spec. in Botany and Zoology = decompound adj.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > state of being composite > [adjective] > of complex parts
decomponit1522
decomposite1655
decompounded1674
decompounda1691
decomplex1749
1674 R. Boyle About Excellency & Grounds Mech. Hypothesis 26 in Excellency Theol. Amel is manifestly not only a compounded, but a decompounded body, consisting of salt and powder of pebbles or sand, and calcined tin.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xix. 275 The leaves being decompounded.
1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. I 205 The areolation is very deep and the areolets not decompounded.
II. Separated into parts.
2. Separated into its constituent parts, decomposed.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [adjective] > separated into constituents
resolveda1600
analysed1601
untwist1607
separated1661
decompounded1797
reduced1810
broken-down1816
dissociated1882
degraded1927
1797 Pearson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 87 152 The oxygen and hydrogen gaz of the decompounded water.
1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 22 Composed of the decompounded shale.
1841 H. Smith Moneyed Man II. ix. 309 The very dust..may consist of decompounded human hearts.
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