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Scissile
//ˈsɪs.ɪl// adj
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Adjective
- 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."
- 2 Easily broken.
Etymology
From Latin scissilis, from scindere, scissum (“to cut, to split”). Compare French scissile. See schism, scissors.
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