cessible
English
editEtymology
editCompare French cessible. See cession.
Adjective
editcessible (comparative more cessible, superlative most cessible)
- (obsolete) Giving way; yielding.
- 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
- 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
Related terms
editPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cessible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
editEtymology
editFrom the stem of Latin cessum (from cēdō (“to yield, to concede, to surrender, to transfer”), whence French céder) + -ible.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editcessible (plural cessibles)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “cessible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.