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compossible, a.|kəmˈpɒsɪb(ə)l|
[OF. compossible (Oresme) ad. med.L. compossibil-is, f. com- + possibilis, possible.]
Possible along with or in coexistence with something else.
1638Chillingw. Relig. Prot. vi. Wks. (1742) 327 They should make the Faith, wherewith they believe, an intelligible, compossible, consistent Thing, and not define it by Repugnances. a1640Jackson Wks. (1673) III. 78 What portion of Freedom of Will is, or can be compossible with Absolute Servitude. 1827Coleridge Lett. Convers., etc. xxxiii. II. 150 Would to God I could have made the one compossible with the other and done both. c1850Sir W. Hamilton Logic (1860) II. 283 App., [This] propositional form is compossible with every other form in universals.
b. as n. with pl.
1727–51Chambers Cycl., Compossibles, such things as are..capable of subsisting together. 1730–6in Bailey (folio). |