comminuible
adjEtymology From Latin comminuere + -ible.
- By which account, a Diamond steeped in Goat's bloud, rather increaseth in hardness, then acquireth any softness by the infusion; for the best we have are comminuible without it; and are so far from breaking hammers, that they submit unto pistillation, and resist not an ordinary pestle.1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
- Related terms
- comminute, comminuted, comminution, comminutor