RESISTIBLE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Resistible

... tendency still persisted, and increasing by half a grain each alternate evening, no very definite effect was perceived, until the dose reached 21/2 grains, and this dose simply rendered the tendency to sleep resistible by effort. After an interval of three evenings, with the tendency to sleep recurring with somewhat varying force each evening, a dose of 3 grains was taken, the maximum single dose of the German Pharmacopoeia. This gave a comfortable evening of restedness, ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 • Various