rare. [f. L. type *compossibilitāt-em: see next and -ITY.] Co-existent possibility; compatibility.
c. 1630. Jackson, Creed, IV. III. viii. Wks. III. 462. The mutual compossibility of actual particular cogitations with virtual continuance of some main purpose.
a. 1688. Cudworth, Immut. Mor. (1731), 32. The Compossibility of Contradictions destroys all knowledge.
1850. Sir W. Hamilton, Logic (1860), II. 282. App., The differences in Compossibility of the two schemes of Indefinite and Definite particularity.
