accendible
English
Etymology
From accend + -ible (compare Italian accendibile).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əkˈsɛndɪbəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
accendible (comparative more accendible, superlative most accendible)
- (obsolete) Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable. [17th–19th c.]
- 1839, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines:
- Every combustible requires a peculiar pitch of temperature to be kindled, called its accendible point
References
- “accendible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “accendible”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.