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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

sectilis

, fr.

secare

sectum

, to cut: cf. F.

sectile

. See

Capable of being cut; specifically

(Min.)

, capable of being severed by the knife with a smooth cut; – said of minerals.

Adj.

[L. sectilus, from seco, to cut.] A sectile mineral is one that is midway between the briddle and the malleable, as soapstone and plumbago.