scissible

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  1. Capable of being cut or divided, as by a sharp instrument. The differences of impressible and not impressible, figurable and not flgurable, mouldable and not mouldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter are plebeian notions, applied unto the instruments and uses which men ordinarily practise. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 846.

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  1. from Latin scindere, past participle scissus, cut, divide, + -ible.
 

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