recompoundv.
/ˌriːkəmˈpaʊnd/, U.S. /ˌrikəmˈpaʊnd/ transitive. Originally: to mix (an ingredient or ingredients) again; to reconstitute. Later more widely: to compound or combine (something) again; to combine or put together (things previously separated); (also) to compound further.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > prepare by mixing > again
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1725 P. Shaw Philos. Wks. R. Boyle I. 273 Nature and art must continually make mixtures of..bodies already recompounded.
1738 H. Pemberton Observ. Poetry iv. 48 This faculty divides such complex ideas into those, whereof they are composed, which it recompounds again after different fashions.
1762 W. Redmond Princ. & Constituence Antimony 18 Two Parts of the Sulphur of Antimony, slightly united, are easily decompounded from, and recompounded with the reguline Part.
1842 J. D. Chambers Pract. Treat. Jurisdiction Hugh Court Chancery 532 A guardian or trustee, under the circumstances, may re compound a debt.
1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. iii. x. §4 Many substances, though they can be analysed, cannot by any known artificial means be recompounded.
1873 J. Tyndall Six Lect. on Light iv. 133 This brings us at once to the part played by the analyzer, the sole function of which is to recompound the two vibrations emergent from the gypsum.
1943 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 131 229 He [sc. Newton] proceeded to reverse the process, and to show how the colours of the spectrum could be recompounded into white light.
1971 W. D. Oberholtzer Is Gay Good? Introd. 66 Furthermore, to compound and recompound the confusion, common-law definitions of sodomy..are not even used by enforcement officers.
2003 Materials Today Apr. 31/1 In theory, all thermoplastic polymers can be remelted and recompounded into a new grade.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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