a. [f. as prec. + -IBLE.]
1. That can be coerced.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Coercible, which may be bridled or restrained.
1721. in Bailey.
1755. in Johnson.
1833. Fraser’s Mag., VIII. 171. The tradesman … is a coercible member of the community.
2. Of gases: Compressible; sometimes, in recent use, condensible.
1777. De Magellan, Glass Appar. Min. Waters, 46. The other elastic but likewise coercible fluid which we call dephlogisticated air [nitrogen].
