Scissile

//ˈsɪs.ɪl// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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. 2
    Easily broken.

Etymology

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

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