cessile, a. rare.
(ˈsɛsaɪl)
Also 6 cessil.
[as if ad. L. *cessilis, f. cessus (see cessible a.) + -ile.]
Yielding (applied only to the air, in imitation of the first quot.).
| a 1599 A. Hume Poems (1902) 28 Sa silent is the cessile air. Ibid. 49 The massiue earth reposis still, Suspended in the cessil eire. 1911 Quiller-Couch Brother Copas xxiii. 319 A faint tapping sound reached them, borne on ‘the cessile air’. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 416 Scintillant circumambient cessile air. |