COMPOUNDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compounded mean? 

• COMPOUNDED (adjective)
  The adjective COMPOUNDED has 1 sense:

1. combined into or constituting a chemical compound

  Familiarity information: COMPOUNDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPOUNDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Combined into or constituting a chemical compound

Similar:

combined (made or joined or united into one)

 Context examples 

Medications are compounded with globular shaped sucrose, lactose, or other polysaccharides and dried before administered.

(Globule Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

Her sentiments towards him were compounded of all that was respectful, grateful, confiding, and tender.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A tablet composed of a large amount of active and/or inert ingredient(s) that can be used in compounding prescriptions to ensure accurate quantity of ingredient within the final, compounded form .

(Dispensing Tablet Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

The proposed tea-drinkings being quite impracticable, I compounded with Miss Lavinia for permission to visit every Saturday afternoon, without detriment to my privileged Sundays.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Hyde had a song upon his lips as he compounded the draught, and as he drank it, pledged the dead man.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A bile acid compounded with a cation, often sodium.

(Bile Salt, NCI Thesaurus)

A topical preparation of baclofen, amitriptyline, and ketamine compounded in a penetration-enhancing polaxamer-lecithin organogel (PLO) with potential antineuralgic activity.

(Baclofen/amitriptyline/ketamine gel, NCI Thesaurus)

Martin, after a few instructions, sorted the great heaps of soiled clothes, while Joe started the masher and made up fresh supplies of soft- soap, compounded of biting chemicals that compelled him to swathe his mouth and nostrils and eyes in bath-towels till he resembled a mummy.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“Look at him, Hump,” Wolf Larsen said to me, look at this bit of animated dust, this aggregation of matter that moves and breathes and defies me and thoroughly believes itself to be compounded of something good; that is impressed with certain human fictions such as righteousness and honesty, and that will live up to them in spite of all personal discomforts and menaces.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)