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frangible, a.|ˈfrændʒɪb(ə)l|
[a. OF. frangible, as if ad. L. *frangibil-is, f. frangĕre to break.]
Capable of being broken, breakable.
c1440Songs & Carols (Percy Soc.) 65 An adamant stone, it is not frangebyll With no thyng but with mylke of a gett. c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 320 The frangabyll tyn, to Iubyter, yf ȝe can dyscus. 1598Barret Theor. Warres v. ii. 129 If of hard stone, or of soft, frangible, and easie. 1647Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. vi. 121 The Councell is blasphemous in saying that Christs glorified body is passible and frangible by naturall manducation. 1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 383 Your ships..are but made up of..frangible materials. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 223 Hardness from 7 to 9, difficultly frangible. 1865Cornh. Mag. Sept. 259 Whenever..the housemaid [had] broken any little frangible article. 1883Harper's Mag. Jan. 192/2 The least frangible rays predominate.
b. as n. in pl. Things breakable. nonce-use.
1824Mirror III. 19/2 Strut around your room..to the manifest terror of all frangibles in your reach.
Hence ˈfrangibleness.
1676H. More Remarks 100 The lightness and frangibleness of Glass. |