| Back | dissilient \dih-SIL-ee-uhnt\ |
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| Front | adjective Bursting apart; bursting open. [Dissilent comes from the Latin word dissilīre meaning "to leap apart."] I imagined the dissilient pod of rumours a creative bureau chief up for promotion might hatch. Stories, once sprung, would snowball out of control, growing more damaging with each repetition. - Susan Daitch, L.C., 2002 The court was dissilient, generationally fractured, manned (as it were) by an increasingly impatient and acquisitive nobility. - Eric Scott Mallin, Inscribing the Time, 1995 |
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