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cessible

cessible adjective: giving way; yielding.

Adjective

cessible (comparative more cessible, superlative most cessible)

  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 far1644, 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...

Forms of cessible

comparativemore cessible
superlativemost cessible

Origin of cessible

Compare French cessible. See cession.

Questions about cessible

What does cessible mean?
Cessible means giving way; yielding.
What part of speech is cessible?
Cessible is an adjective.

Words near cessible in the dictionary

  1. cessavits
  2. cessed
  3. cesser
  4. cessers
  5. cesses
  6. cessible
  7. cessile
  8. cessing
  9. cessio bonorum
  10. cession
  11. cessionaries

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