cessible

English

Etymology

Compare French cessible. See cession.

Adjective

cessible (comparative more cessible, superlative most cessible)

1. (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

• cessibility

Part 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Etymology

From the stem of Latin cessum (from cēdō (“to yield, to concede, to surrender, to transfer”), whence French céder) + -ible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.sibl/, /se.sibl/

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Adjective

cessible (plural cessibles)

1. transferable

Derived terms

• cessibilité
• incessible

Further reading

• “cessible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.