discerptible (diserptibl)

[L. discerptus, pp. of discerp ere, tear in pieces (see discerp ), + -ible.] Same as discerpible. [Obsolete or rare.] According to what is here presented, what is most dense and least porous will be most coherent and least discerptible. Glanville, Vanity of Dogmatizing, v. discerption (di-serp's hon), n. [L. discerp tio (n-), Maintaining that space has no parts, because its parts are not separable and cannot be removed from any other by discerption. Leibnitz , Letter v. in Letters of Clarke and Leibnitz. discerptive (di-serp'tiv), a. [L. discerptus , pp . of discerp ere , tear in pieces (see discerp ) , + -ive.] Separating or dividing. North Brit. Rev.