Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Liable to be dissipated; that may be scattered or dispersed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Capable of being scattered or dissipated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Capable of being
dissipated ordispersed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Touching which point Proclus the Platonist disputeth, that the compounded essence of the world (and because compounded, therefore dissipable) is continued, and knit to the Divine Being, by an individual and inseparable power, flowing from Divine unity; and that the world's natural appetite of
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730
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II.] _Neither is it impossible that of these minute Particles divers of the smallest and neighbouring ones were here and there associated into minute Masses or Clusters, and did by their Coalitions constitute great store of such little primary Concretions or Masses as were not easily dissipable into such Particles as compos'd them.
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