comminuible

English

Etymology

From Latin comminuere +‎ -ible.

Adjective

comminuible (comparative more comminuible, superlative most comminuible)

  1. (obsolete, rare) That can be comminuted or pulverized.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
      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.
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