discerpibleadj.

Brit.

/dᵻˈsəːpᵻbl/, U.S.

/dᵻˈsərpəb(ə)l/

Forms: 1600s discerpable, 1600s– discerpible.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin discerpibilis ; Latin discerpere , -ible suffix.

Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin discerpibilis (also used by Henry More (compare quot. 1655), but apparently first attested later than the English word: 1668 or earlier) < classical Latin discerpere discerp v. + -bilis -ble suffix, or directly < classical Latin discerpere discerp v. + -ible suffix. Compare earlier discernible adj. and slightly later indiscerpible adj. In later use superseded by discerptible adj.With the form discerpable compare -able suffix.

= discerptible adj.In later use chiefly with reference to the works of Henry More and his contemporaries.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [adjective] > separated into constituents > able to be

resoluble?a1425

dissoluble1534

dissolvable?1541

resolvible1652

discerpible1655

discerptible1667

resolvable1771

analysable1784

decomposable1784

decompoundable1797

decomponible1859

1655 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 2) App. 305 One part is not separable or discerpable from another, but the intire substance..is indivisible.

1659 H. More Immortality of Soul i. ii. 15 As there is one kind of Substance, which of it's own nature is Impenetrable and Discerpible, so there may be another Indiscerpible and Penetrable.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 51 What is most dense and least porous, will be most coherent and least discerpible.

1720 Bibliotheca Biblica I. 435 A Vapour, or a Fluid Discerpible Substance.

1789 W. Belsham Ess. I. xix. 364 The properties of solidity and extension are absolutely essential to matter, which is therefore necessarily a discerpible substance.

1839 D. W. Lathrop Case Gen. Assembly Presbyterian Church United States Amer. 555 Suppose a synod is condemned... It is capable of being dissolved, it is discerpible, and may suffer disintegration of its component parts; but this is not punishment.

1900 Amer. Anthropologist 2 26 While they are not discerpible, they are still concomitant and may be considered severally.

2008 A. Hallacker in I. Iribarren & M. Lenz Angels in Medieval Philos. Inq. v. xiii. 210 Air is a sort of matter less dense than what is generally meant by terrestrial bodies but nevertheless a substance impenetrable and discerpible.

Derivatives

discerpiˈbility n. [ < discerpible adj. + -ity suffix: see -bility suffix]

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [noun] > ability

discerpibility1659

discerpibleness1659

resolvableness1665

discerptibility1667

resolvability1833

decomposability1862

analysability1902

1659 H. More Immortality of Soul ii. 11 By Actuall Divisibility I understand Discerpibility, gross tearing or cutting one part from another.

1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature v. 74 A natural discerpibility and susceptivity of various shapes.

1991 S. M. Fallon Milton among Philosophers ii. 75 He maintained a dualism by substituting discerpibility..and impenetrability for extension as the essential qualities of matter.

† diˈscerpibleness n. Obsolete

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