restrainableadj.

1580 J. Bell tr. J. Foxe Pope Confuted i. sig. A^v The inwarde heartburninges of the greatest dominions of the worlde, yea theyr very nayles scarcely restrayneable from your present raking in peeces.

1625 R. Bolton Some Gen. Direct. for Comfortable Walking with God 209 Christs rule is not so generall, but restrainable to that will, which is orderly and honestly guided by the light of nature and Gods Law.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 262 Nor is the hand of the Painter more restrainable than the pen of the Poet. View more context for this quotation

1649 J. Canne Golden Rule 30 Such a power is restrainable and punishable by the subject.

1758 Manifesto Court of France 13 Such Assistance..admits of no Delay, as otherwise it would be giving Violence Time to spread and grow to such Head, as to be no longer restrainable.

1772 J. Johnson Let. 17 Apr. in Joshua Johnson's Letterbk. (1979) 33 The men being more inactive and much addicted to drunkenness; the women are fond of it but rather more restrainable.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. i. 12 Mad movements both, restrainable by no known rule.

1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. i. 10 Never quite restrainable within the trammels of social law.

1917 F. McCormick Menace of Japan v. 79 The exasperation of the financiers was hardly restrainable.

1996 India Abroad 20 Sept. 23 A natural overflow of population..will not be restrainable by barbed wire or border-patrol measures.