Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being decompounded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being decompounded.
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- adjective Capable of being
decompounded .
Etymologies
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decompound + -able
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Examples
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For a long time it was supposed that carbonic acid was not decompoundable; but Mr. Tennant discovered, a few years ago, that this acid may be decomposed by burning phosphorus in a closed vessel with carbonat of soda or carbonat of lime: the phosphorus absorbs the oxygen from the carbonat, whilst the carbon is separated in the form of a black powder.
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Mr. Tooke, in fact, treated words as the chemists do substances; he separated those which are compounded of others from those which are not decompoundable.
The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt 1804
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