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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--compossible This week's theme: miscellaneous words. compossible (kom-POS-uh-buhl) adjective Compatible; possible along with something else. [From Latin com- (with) + possibilis (that may be done), from posse (to be able). Ultimately from the Indo-European root poti- (powerful, lord) that is also the source of power, potent, possess, and pasha.] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "I also argue that the presence of compossible options is a precondition of political toleration." Peter Jones; Making Sense of Political Toleration; British Journal of Political Science (Cambridge, UK); Jul 2007. X-Bonus The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. -Madeleine L'Engle, writer (1918- )

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