Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Compounded a second time; compounded with things already composite.
- In botany, same as
decompound . - noun Anything compounded of composite things.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Anything decompounded.
- adjective Compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite.
- adjective (Bot.) See
Decompound , a., 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Anything
decompounded .
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Examples
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The anarchist individualists wish to make the individual person an independent, therefore a decomposite of his environment.
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Readers of the Observations would have been familiar with the words “decompound” and “decomposite” ” both from the late Latin decompositus, a rendering of the Greek parasynthetos ” in which the “de -” prefix signifies “repeatedly” or “further.”
David Hartley Allen, Richard 2009
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