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Definition of Destructible
1. Adjective. Easily destroyed. "Destructible glassware"
Similar to: Abolishable, Destroyable
Derivative terms: Destroy, Destroy, Destructibility
Antonyms: Indestructible
Definition of Destructible
1. a. Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed.
Definition of Destructible
1. Adjective. Liable to destruction; capable of being destroyed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Destructible
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Destructible
Literary usage of Destructible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Rules Against Perpetuities, Restraints on Alienation and by Roland Roberts Foulke (1909)
"destructible Interests 378. A future interest destructible by the owner of the
... Mr. Gray's position appears to amount to this: when the destructible ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Perpetuity: Or, Remoteness in Limitations by William David Lewis (1843)
"A contingent remainder at Common law being destructible by the determination of
the particular-estate (by forfeiture, merger, or otherwise,) previous to its ..."
3. The Rule Against Perpetuities by John Chipman Gray (1886)
"Conditional Limitations at first held destructible like Contingent Remainders.
§ 142. It is said in the preceding section that no difference was at first ..."
4. The Physical Basis of Immortality by Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell (1876)
"All intermediate systems are variable and destructible.—The universal system is
not destructible. The atom as a unit of the universal whole. ..."
5. Memoir of James Prescott Joule by Osborne Reynolds (1892)
"Thus, according to the general meaning attached to "force," it was universally
and rightly held to be destructible, and the indestructibility of "force" ..."
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