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decomposite, a. and n.|diːˈkɒmpəzɪt|
[ad. late L. dēcompositus, a Latin rendering of Gr. παρασύνθετος used by Priscian in the sense ‘formed or derived from a compound word’, by mediæval and modern L. writers as ‘further or more deeply compounded’. Cf. decompone. Hence a series of senses, found also in decompound, decomposition, in which de- is used differently from the more ordinary sense in decompose and derivatives. See de- I. 5.]
A. adj. Further compounded; formed by adding another element or constituent to something already composite.
1655Gouge Comm. Heb. Epist., Simple, compound, or decomposite notions. 1869Latham s.v., The decomposite character of such words is often concealed or disguised.
B. n. A decomposite substance, word, etc.; a compound formed from something already composite.
1622T. Jackson Judah 48 That elegant metaphoricall decomposite of the Apostle unto Timothie [2 Tim. i. 6, ἀναζωπυρεῖν ‘rekindle’]. a1626Bacon Minerals Wks. 1857 III. 807 The decomposites of three metals or more, are too long to enquire of. 1678Phillips, Decomposite, a term in Grammar, signifying a word equally compounded, that is by the addition of two other words, as In-dis-positio. 1706― (ed. Kersey), Decomposite (in Grammar), a Word doubly compounded; as In-dis-position; also, a Term us'd by Apothecaries, when a Physical Composition is encreas'd. 1848Latham Eng. Lang. §299 Compounds wherein one element is Compound are called Decomposites. 1863W. Smith tr. Curtius' Gr. Gram., Eng. Index, Decomposites, Augm[ent] in, §239 [Some verbs, which are not merely compounded with prepositions, but derived from already compound nouns (Decomposita), have the Augment at the beginning]. |