compounded

English

Adjective

compounded (comparative more compounded, superlative most compounded)

1. Compound; composite; resulting from the interaction and combination of multiple parts.
   • 2009, Jonathan Edwards, Harvey G. Townsend, The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards, page 259:

     'Tis exceeding evident in natural philosophy that all the operations of the creatures are the immediate influence of the divine being; and that the method of influence is most simple, constant, and unvaried in the meanest and simplest beings, and more evident, compounded, and various and according to less simple rules in beings that are more perfect and compounded—and that in proportion as they are more or less perfect. 'Tis most simple in inanimate beings, less so in plants, more compounded still in the more-perfect plants, more evident in animals than in them, and most so in the most-perfect animal and most-compounded and least of all bound to constant laws—in man.

   • 2023, Matthew Daniel Eddy, Ursula Klein, A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century:

     He made a distinction between mixts and more compounded substances, and between the ultimate principles and more proximate, compounded principles.

Derived terms

• compoundedness
• noncompounded
• uncompounded

 

Verb

compounded

1. simple past and past participle of compound

Anagrams

• decompound