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cessile, a. rare.|ˈsɛsaɪl|
Also 6 cessil.
[as if ad. L. *cessilis, f. cessus (see cessible a.) + -ile.]
Yielding (applied only to the air, in imitation of the first quot.).
a1599A. Hume Poems (1902) 28 Sa silent is the cessile air. Ibid. 49 The massiue earth reposis still, Suspended in the cessil eire. 1911Quiller-Couch Brother Copas xxiii. 319 A faint tapping sound reached them, borne on ‘the cessile air’. 1922Joyce Ulysses 416 Scintillant circumambient cessile air. |