Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of decussate
comparative more decussated · superlative most decussated
- Crossed or intersected in the form of an X.
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Over the centuries the movement of clans and tribes of people has provided the kind of crop that would emerge if a blind god had sprinkled seeds at random on a field - a vast array of diverse patterns, usually not even interlocking or decussated, but crossed and intersected by every kind of structured diversity.
1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 137
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