Word Meanings - SUBDIVISIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Susceptible of subdivision.

SUSCEPTIBLE
up, to support, undertake, recognize, admit; pref. sus + 1. Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration. It sheds on souls susceptible
SUBDIVISION
1. The act of subdividing, or separating a part into smaller parts. 2. A part of a thing made by subdividing. In the decimal table, the subdivision of the cubit, as span, palm, and digit, are deduced from the shorter cubit. Arbuthnot.
INSUSCEPTIBLE
Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity; a mind insusceptible to flattery. -- In`sus*cep`ti*bly adv.