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trainable, a.|ˈtreɪnəb(ə)l| [f. train v.1 + -able.] Capable of being trained; amenable to discipline and instruction; educable.
c1550(title) An Enterlude called Lusty Iuuentus, lyuely describing the frailtie of youth: of natur prone to vyce: by grace and good counsayll traynable to vertue. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits iii. (1596) 30 Amongst horses..some there are more trainable than the rest. 1600Holland Livy xxxix. xl. 1049 This man was by nature so trainable and pliant to all alike, that [etc.]. 1869Daily News 20 Aug., If there were skilled labour, or even trainable labour, to carry it on. 1872Ruskin Fors Clav. (1896) I. xxii. 442 The horse, the noblest, because trainablest, of wild creatures. |