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decompound

ADJECTIVE
  1. of a compound leaf; consisting of divisions that are themselves compound

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  • Because they being the workmanship of the understanding, pursuing only its own ends, and the conveniency of expressing in short those ideas it would make known to another, it does with great liberty unite often into one abstract idea things that, in their nature, have no coherence; and so under one term bundle together a great variety of compounded and decompounded ideas. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • The different kinds of the decompound leaf are — Bigeminatc t Bitemate and Bipinnate; which fee in their proper places. — The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...
  • 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
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  • The first shows that the instrument has been constructed for a place on the parallel of 50°, and the others show that, at the solstices, the height of the sun was respectively 18° and 65°, decompounded as follows: Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891
  • “compound” to “decompound,” he wrote of ideas and actions being either “complex” or David Hartley
  • _Caryota_ or wine-palm, whose immense decompound leaves are twelve feet long. Himalayan Journals — Complete
  • Sea fait is compofed of the marine acid, and a foflil alkali, to which latter the vitriolic acid found in Gypfiim has a greater affinity than the marine acid; it will therefore decompound the fait and unite with the foflil alkali perhaps, (I fpeak with deference, not knowing the fa6l) perhaps, I fay, the foflil alkali may be unfriendly to vegetation, or not of a nature to be ab - forbed by the plant. Transactions of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts and Manufactures, instituted in the State of New York
  • COMPLEX IDEAS, however compounded and decompounded, though their number be infinite, and the variety endless, wherewith they fill and entertain the thoughts of men; yet I think they may be all reduced under these three heads: — 1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • 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
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