comminuible
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin comminuere + -ible.
Adjective[edit]
comminuible (comparative more comminuible, superlative most comminuible)
- (obsolete, rare) That can be comminuted or pulverized.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
- By which account, a Diamond steeped in Goat's bloud, rather increaseth in hardness, then acquireth any softness by the infusion; for the best we have are comminuible without it; and are so far from breaking hammers, that they submit unto pistillation, and resist not an ordinary pestle.