Discerpible vs Discernible - What's the difference?
discerpible | discernible |
Capable of being discerped.
* 1662 , , Appendix, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 150:
Possible to discern; detectable or derivable by use of the senses or the intellect.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
As adjectives the difference between discerpible and discernible
is that discerpible is capable of being discerped while discernible is possible to discern; detectable or derivable by use of the senses or the intellect.discerpible
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Alternative forms
* discerptibleAdjective
(en adjective)- "That the conceived parts in a Spirit'' have an inseparable dependence upon the central Essence thereof, from which they flow, and in which they are radically contained; and therefore though there be an ''Extension'' of this whole substantial power, yet one part is not separable or discerpible from another, but the intire Substance, as well ''Secondary'' as ''Primary'' or ''Central'', is ''indivisible ."
discernible
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(en adjective)John Duncan], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=En58zhD3SWUC Duncan's Travels
- To have demolished and rebuilt the walls, would have been a very costly expedient, and as the least of two evils, the painter's brush was resorted to; here and there however, above some of the windows, the black wreathings of the smoke are still discernible through the white covering.