a. [UN-1 7 b and 5 b.] = INDECOMPOSABLE a. Also const. by.

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1807.  Southey, Espriella’s Lett., III. 363. Nothing will vegetate upon it, and it is undecomposable by the weather.

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1855.  Mill, Exam. Hamilton, 13. Many of our intellectual ideas are regarded by him as ultimate and undecomposable facts.

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1870.  Jevons, Elem. Logic, ii. 15. A simple undecomposable substance called by chemists an element.

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