Definition of "decomposed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of decompose. (verb)

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• "So the terms decomposed, human body odor, I don ` t think any scientist can qualify to say -- just smell the odor, say that ` s a human body."
• "For an elementary body is one that has never been decomposed, that is to say, separated into other substances; and fire, air, earth, and water, are all of them susceptible of decomposition."
• "If you present to a body composed of two principles, a third, which has a greater affinity for one of them than the two first have for each other, it will be decomposed, that is, its two principles will be separated by means of the third body."