scissile
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Etymology edit
From Latin scissilis, from scindere, scissum (“to cut, to split”). Compare French scissile. See schism, scissors.
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Adjective edit
scissile (comparative more scissile, superlative most scissile)
- Readily cut or split.
- 1651, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum:
- 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.
- (chemistry, of a bond) Easily broken.
Translations edit
readily cut or split
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin scissile(m), accusative form of scissilis.
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Adjective edit
scissile (plural scissili)
- scissile (easily split) (chiefly of minerals)