a. [OF. compossible (Oresme) ad. med.L. compossibil-is, f. com- + possibilis, POSSIBLE.] Possible along with or in coexistence with something else.

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1638.  Chillingw., Relig. Prot., VI. Wks. (1742), 327. They should make the Faith, wherewith they believe, an intelligible, compossible, consistent Thing, and not define it by Repugnances.

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a. 1640.  Jackson, Wks. (1673), III. 78. What portion of Freedom of Will is, or can be compossible with Absolute Servitude.

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1827.  Coleridge, Lett. Convers., etc. xxxiii. II. 150. Would to God I could have made the one compossible with the other and done both.

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c. 1850.  Sir W. Hamilton, Logic (1860), II. 283. App., [This] propositional form is compossible with every other form in universals.

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  b.  as sb. with pl.

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1727–51.  Chambers, Cycl., Compossibles, such things as are … capable of subsisting together.

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1730–6.  in Bailey (folio).

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