imputrescible

[ im-pyoo-tres-uh-buhl ]

adjective

1. not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible:

   a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.

Word History and Origins

Origin of imputrescible¹

From the Late Latin word imputrescibilis, dating back to 1650–60. See im- ², putrescible

Example Sentences

Antonym: imputrescible. decease, n. demise, death. deceased person. decedent. deceit, n. deception, imposition, trickery, chicanery, artifice, delusion, circumvention, guile, duplicity, imposture finesse, dissimulation, cozenage, trumpery, fallacy. deceitful, a. deceptive, illusive, insidious, fraudulent, wily, artful, disingenuous. deceivable, a. deceptible, gullible, credulous.

From Project Gutenberg

It remains for us to say here that the differences observable in the quantity of fixed tannin ought to arise chiefly from the different natures of these tannins, which have properties differing as do those of one plant from another, and which really have but one property in common, that of assimilating themselves with animal tissues and rendering them imputrescible.

From Project Gutenberg