compositionaladj.

1815 J. Jebb Let. 31 May in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) II. 222 To use verbal alterations, and compositional modification.

1922 Daily Mail 8 Nov. 13 The compositional lines are so obvious that if the left half of the picture were covered up it would be..easy to fill in mentally the hidden part.

1927 Observer 10 July 14/2 This defiance of compositional rules.

1928 Observer 17 June 14/3 All the artists so far mentioned are mainly concerned with compositional problems.

1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (1949) xiii. 321 European compositional schools which can no longer be called modern.

1953 C. E. Bazell Ling. Form 73 The distinction between particle and inflection belongs properly to the compositional level.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 26 Jan. 47/2 The compositional testing of milk samples.

1970 Nature 6 June 926/2 A compositional layering in which the density increases upward in the stratigraphic sequence.

1934 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.

1953 C. E. Bazell Ling. Form 51 There are no more morphs in sank than in rank, since compositionally these are on a par.

1969 G. M. Bennison & A. E. Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles iii. 65 The Gwna Mélange is a remarkable rock, compositionally mature quartzite and limestone blocks set in a chlorite schist.

1976 Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 132 124 However, it differs in that it is located at the lower contact of a slump, and that the clasts are monomict and compositionally identical to the enclosing flysch calcarenites.

1984 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Sept. 1012/3 Elgar, compositionally, brought off what he did when, on so many occasions, he had virtually to start from scratch.