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decussated

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Verb

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decussated

  1. simple past and past participle of decussate

Adjective

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decussated (comparative more decussated, superlative most decussated)

  1. Crossed or intersected in the form of an X.
    • 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 137:
      Over the centuries the movement of clans and tribes of people has provided the kind of crop that would emerge if a blind god had sprinkled seeds at random on a field - a vast array of diverse patterns, usually not even interlocking or decussated, but crossed and intersected by every kind of structured diversity.