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scissile en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ˈsɪs.ɪl/

Etymology

From Latin scissilis, from scindere, scissum (“to cut, to split”). Compare French scissile. See schism, scissors.

Meanings

1. Readily cut or split.
   • The differences of impressible and not impressible; figurable and not figurable; mouldable and not mouldable; scissile and not scissile; and many other passions of matter, are plebeian notions, applied unto the instruments and uses which men ordinarily practise; but they are all but the effects of some of these causes following, which we will enumerate without applying them, because that would be too long. 1651, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum:
2. (of a bond) Easily broken.

Forms

Translations (8)

bg цеплив (readily cut or split) · fr scissile (readily cut or split) · gv yn-yiarrey (readily cut or split) · fr fissile (readily cut or split) · it scissile (readily cut or split) · fr fendable (readily cut or split) · fi halkaistava (readily cut or split) · fi helposti lohkeava (readily cut or split)