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Decompound   Listen
adjective
Decompound  adj.  
1.
Compound of what is already compounded; compounded a second time.
2.
(Bot.) Several times compounded or divided, as a leaf or stem; decomposite.






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"Decompound" Quotes from Famous Books



... over it; and thus, in fact, leave their pictures nothing at last but overgrown miniatures, but huge caricatures. It is not necessary in any case (either in a larger or a smaller compass) to go into the details, so as to lose sight of the effect, and decompound the face into porous and transparent molecules, in the manner of Denner, who painted what he saw through a magnifying-glass. The painter's eye need not be a microscope, but I contend that it should be a looking-glass, bright, clear, lucid. The little in art begins with insignificant parts, with ...
— Table-Talk - Essays on Men and Manners • William Hazlitt



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