CESSIBLE ADJ. yielding; ready to yield or give way ...1644 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY as if from Latin *cessibilis, from cessus, past participle of cēdĕre to yield + -ible FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1644 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...But lastly, if the partes of the strucken body be so easily cessible as without difficulty the stroake can diuide them, then it entereth into such a body vntill it hath spent its force..." From: Two Treatises in the One of Which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule is Looked into: in Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules - Sir Kenelm Digby
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