a. Also (erron.) -iscible. [f. as prec. + -escible (see -ESCE and -IBLE).] a. Having the power to cause fermentation. b. Capable of being fermented.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XIX. 730. Fermentiscible and often bilious Humours bred of … Meat corrupted.
1807. Med. Jrnl., XXII. 198. The albumen … was so altered as to be nearly insoluble, without having lost its fermentescible action.
1814. Edin. Rev., XXIII. 129. To excite fermentation in a fermentiscible fluid.
1865. Reader, No. 117. 346/3. Fermentescible liquids.
