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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uncompounded

1580s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of compound (v.).

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uncompounded

a. Not compounded.

WordNet
uncompounded

adj. not constituting a compound [syn: unmixed]

Usage examples of "uncompounded".

Either we must exhibit the self-knowing of an uncompounded being--and show how that is possible--or abandon the belief that any being can possess veritable self-cognition.

We still think we are ourselves, and ourselves only, and are as certain as we can be of any fact, that we are single sentient beings, uncompounded of other sentient beings, and that our action is determined by the sole operation of a single will.

The former, on the contrary, being only external and transitory modifications of an immortal and uncompounded essence, are insensibly effaced, and leave the mind in its original form, which is not susceptible of alteration.

There is first the pure or uncompounded ethical feelings, which spring directly from the moral sense alone, and which all men experience in varying degrees.

The former class of feelings, or the uncompounded ethical class, have exclusive reference to the moral obligations that subsist between ourselves and other human beings, or sentient organisms.

Here Spinoza appears, and tells me that these are only modifications and that the subject in which they inhere is simple, uncompounded, and indivisible.

Upon my inquiring concerning these, theologians present themselves, and tell me that these also are modifications, and modifications of one simple, uncompounded, and indivisible substance.

But are there not elements -- as yet not completely understood -- within our physical universe, bound by the laws of our physical universe, which might be described as unborn, unoriginated, unmade, and uncompounded?