interfusable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

interfuse +‎ -able

Adjective[edit]

interfusable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being interfused or blended together.
    • 1913, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, volume 116, page 657:
      Yet realism and poetry are interfusable, if the poet has a poetic purpose and the spiritual light without which the mot juste will not come on moth-wings to him; []
    • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Billy Budd[1], London: Constable & Co.:
      For it was close on the heel of the suppressed insurrections, an aftertime very critical to naval authority, demanding from every English sea-commander two qualities not readily interfusable—prudence and rigour.