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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
  • But he too must perish, for life is a continuous process, and humanity an old man, refusing to be decompounded and rebuilt to the linear utopianism of the dreamer and theorist, come out of the silence with his ideal to be foisted on unregenerate society. Leonid Andreyev: 1871-1919
  • And some decompound production of foaming agent can reinforce the foaming ability of refining slag.
  • It seems a certain permanent average; as the atmosphere is a permanent composition, while so many gases are combined only to be decompounded. XII. Essays. Manners. 1844
  • sending flowers to switzerland ~ climbing corydalis corydalis claviculata fumaria claviculata annual vine with decompound leaves and racemes of yellow and pink flowers. Top Information about Home Management
  • The same may be done in all our complex ideas whatsoever; which, however compounded and decompounded, may at last be resolved into simple ideas, which are all the materials of knowledge or thought we have, or can have. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • But when a word stands for a very complex idea that is compounded and decompounded, it is not easy for men to form and retain that idea so exactly, as to make the name in common use stand for the same precise idea, without any the least variation. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • According to Verreaux, the feathers of the under side of the tail are soft and decompounded, but at a distance they only recall the beautiful plumes of the adjutant. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
  • Flavour compounds of fermented sausage are formed through carbohydrate fermentation , fat metabolism, nitrogenous compounds decompound and spices .
  • Hence, likewise, we may learn why the complex ideas of mixed modes are commonly more compounded and decompounded than those of natural substances. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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