subduableadj.
/səbˈdjuːəbl/, /səbˈdʒuːəbl/, U.S. /səbˈd(j)uəbəl/ That may be subdued.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [adjective] > able to be subdued or subjugated
suppressable1609
subduable1611
subjicible1638
suppressible1753
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Surmontable,..subduable.
1628 J. Fletcher Hist. Perfect-Cursed-Blessed Man 12 His Will commands free as an Emperess, Subduable by neither wile nor prowess.
1700 J. Jones Myst. Opium Reveal'd xxv. 272 The resinous Parts being divided and severed, become less liable to a Coalescence at Stomach, and consequently less offensive and more subduable.
1781 W. Stevenson Cases in Med. iii. 106 Treated on the writer's plan, the measles are subduable in a few days.
1839 J. Rogers Antipopopriestian xii. §5. 277 If the love of sin be hardly subduable by the fear of hell.
1870 O. S. Fowler Sexual Sci. 109 We little realize how great the difference between the boy and man. How subduable before, but how indomitable afterwards!
1904 C. P. Gilman Human Work 10 The troubles of any race and time are partly external and subduable.
1997 Washington Times (Nexis) 1 Nov. a12 It wasn't until police backed off..that..[she] calmed down enough to step outside... She was sprayed with rubber bullets, and though uninjured, was subduable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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