decomˈpounded, ppl. a.
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
I. 1. Further compounded; made up of compound constituents: spec. in Bot. and Zool. = decompound.
| 1674 Boyle Corpusc. Philos. 26 Amel is manifestly not only a compounded, but a decompounded body, consisting of salt and powder of pebbles or sand, and calcined tin. 1794 Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xix. 268 The leaves being decompounded. 1852 Dana Crust. i. 205 The areolation is very deep and the areolets not decompounded. |
II. 2. Separated into its constituent parts, decomposed.
| 1797 Pearson in Phil. Trans. LXXXVII. 152 The oxygen and hydrogen gaz of the decompounded water. 1807 Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 22 Composed of the decompounded shale. 1841 Hor. Smith Moneyed Man II. ix. 309 The very dust..may consist of decompounded human hearts. |