disciplinable
English
Etymology
From discipline + -able and from Latin disciplinabilis.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɪsɪplɪnəb(ə)l/
Adjective
disciplinable (comparative more disciplinable, superlative most disciplinable)
- That can be instructed (by discipline); able to be taught.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- Plato affirmeth, that melancholy minds are more excellent and disciplinable; So are there none more inclinable unto follie.
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- For which one is liable to be disciplined or punished.
- a disciplinable offence
- (obsolete) Relating to discipline; disciplinary.
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