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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

cessible en · ADJ

Etymology

Compare French cessible. See cession.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) Giving way; yielding.
    • they are bound to flesh , and to other part of the body ; which being cessible , must needs dull the stroke , and not permit it to be carried far 1644, Kenelme [i.e., Kenelm] Digby, Two Treatises. In the One of which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked into: In Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules, Paris: […] Gilles Blaizot, →OCLC:

Forms

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most cessible Degree=Sup lexicographic
more cessible Degree=Cmp lexicographic

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