ppl. a. [f. COMPOUND v. + -ED1.]

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  1.  Formed by the combination of various elements or the mixture of various ingredients.

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1597.  Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., I. ii. 8. The braine of this foolish compounded Clay-man, is not able to inuent any thing, etc. Ibid. (1613), Hen. VIII., I. i. 13. What foure Thron’d ones could haue weigh’d Such a compounded one?

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1660.  Barrow, Euclid, V. Def. 14. Compounded ratio is when the antecedent and consequent taken both as one are compared to the consequent itself.

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1691.  Tryon, Wisd. Dictates, 10. Sweet compounded Foods.

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1789.  Saunders, in Phil. Trans., LXXIX. 104. A compounded medicine made up of above thirty different ingredients.

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1874.  Sayce, Compar. Philol., vi. 241. Latin and Greek … possess but few compounded roots in common.

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  † 2.  Combined, taken in combination; collective.

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1658.  Bramhall, Consecr. Bps., xi. 223. If these words be considered coniointly in a compounded sense.

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1725.  Watts, Logic, III. iii. § 1. The Sophism of Division is when we infer the same Thing concerning Ideas in a divided Sense, which is only true in a compounded Sense.

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  † 3.  Compound, composite, complex. Mostly Obs. Cf. Compounded Interest: see COMPOUND a. 2 b. quot. 1660.

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1570.  Billingsley, Euclid, I. i. 9. Composition passeth … from thinges simple to thinges more compounded.

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1594.  Blundevil, Exerc., VII. xxix. (ed. 7), 78. If the number be compounded, that is to say, consisting of Integrums and Fractions.

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1694.  W. Holder, Harmony (1731), 40. These Compounded Concords are found … by their Habitude to the Original Concords.

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1703.  Maundrell, Journ. Jerus. (1721), 102. There it was that Judas … met with his compounded death.

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1711.  J. Greenwood, Eng. Gram., 213. A Sentence or Saying is either single or compounded.

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1768.  Holland, in Phil. Trans., LVIII. 46. A monthly astronomical clock … with a compounded pendulum.

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1824.  L. Murray, Eng. Gram. (ed. 5), I. 320. Almost all compounded sentences, are more or less elliptical.

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  † b.  Archit. = COMPOSITE. Obs.

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a. 1639.  Wotton, Ground Rules Archit. (1676), 11. Eight Columns of the Compounded Order.

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