decomposite
English
Etymology
de- + composite
Adjective
decomposite (comparative more decomposite, superlative most decomposite)
- Compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite.
- (botany) decompound
Noun
decomposite (plural decomposites)
- Anything decompounded.
- Francis Bacon
- decomposites of three metals or more
- Francis Bacon
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for decomposite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin
Adjective
dēcomposite
- vocative masculine singular of dēcompositus