scissile

From Latin scissilis, from scindere, scissum (“to cut, to split”). Compare French scissile. See schism, scissors.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪs.ɪl/

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scissile (comparative more scissile, superlative most scissile)

1. 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.

2. (chemistry, of a bond) Easily broken.

Borrowed from Latin scissile(m), accusative form of scissilis.

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈʃis.si.le/
• Rhymes: -issile
• Hyphenation: scìs‧si‧le

scissile (plural scissili)

1. scissile (easily split) (chiefly of minerals)

• scindere
• scissione