单词 | treatable |
释义 | treatableadj. 1. a. Easily handled or dealt with; tractable, manageable, docile; open to appeal or argument, ‘easy to be entreated’, affable. (Of persons, etc. or their attributes.) Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [adjective] > tractable beisuma1225 treatable1303 waldinc1485 tractable?1504 towardly1513 obsequent1520 conformable1547 unwilful1570 sonsya1622 ductile1622 obedible1622 ductible1623 unobstinate1632 ducible1633 docile1647 fictile1676 amenable1680 tawie1786 trottya1913 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 1992 Makayre ioyed þat þey were..so tretable; He þankeþ God þat he haþ founde So mylde wymmen yn wedlak bounde. c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋584 Man is a quik þing by nature and tretable to goodnesse. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) x. v. 376/2 Yf he be meke & tretable, gyue hym [horse] a smothe brydel. 1578 Bk. Christian Prayers in Private Prayers (1851) 489 Thou..art treatable and mild,..thou shewest mercy unto thousands. 1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety xvii. 388 Suffer themselves to cool into a treatable Temper. 1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 86 Those Arts by which the People were render'd more treatable in a way of Reason and Understanding. 1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. 583 Nasr..had showed himself more treatable since the others' departure. b. Of things: Tractable; yielding to treatment, as a disease; flexible or ductile, as a metal. Obsolete except in Medicine. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > [adjective] > capable of being treated treatable1340 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > types of metal generally > [adjective] > malleable ductilea1340 treatable1340 ductible1413 battable1601 ducible1657 superplastic1947 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 94 God..huanne he nhesseþ þe herte, and makeþ zuete and tretable, ase wex ymered, and ase land guod and agrayþed. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 167 Gold..þe more hit is ine uere: þe more hit is clene and clyer and tretable. c1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 27 Considere þe lech bisily, þe wounde..if it be wele tretable and with-out hardnes. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 44v/1 Yf the canker be tretable in the begynnynge,..and in suche parte of the bodye, that it maye seme possible to be rooted vppe. 1974 E. Ambler Dr. Frigo ii. 141 Muscular dystrophy..is to some extent treatable and controllable. 1978 Bull. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. Feb. 29 Heart disease and strokes are related to..potentially treatable but undetected hypertension. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] light?c1225 moderatea1398 sober1398 weakc1400 meanly?a1425 treatablec1450 slenderc1475 remiss1550 quiet1560 unpassionatea1600 relaxative1611 c1450 J. Lydgate Stans Puer (Lamb. 853) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 31 Be soft in mesure, not hasti, but treteable. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlvi. 93 Somewhat there is why a vertuous minde should rather wish to depart this world with a kinde of treatable dissolution, then to be suddainely cut off. 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (ii. 15) 536 Doctrine may be ponderous and weightie, where the speach is calme and treatable, still waters often runne the deepest. 1690 W. Temple Ess. Gardens of Epicurus in Wks. (1731) I. 182 In France, and the Low-Countries..the Heats or the Colds, and Changes of Seasons, are less treatable than they are with us. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > clearness, lucidity > [adjective] > of speech or speaker intelligible1509 treatable1530 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) i. 55 To abyde vpon the tretable sayng of theyre seruice be yt neuer so werysom. 1560 Interrogatories for Doctr. & Maners Mynisters sig. A.i Whether the person..dothe read the common seruice with a lowde distincte and treatable voyce. a1633 G. Herbert Priest to Temple (1652) vi. 18 [The parson's] voyce is humble, his words treatable and slow. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 39 All these things with a solid and treatable smoothnesse to paint out and describe. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > quality of being tangible > [adjective] touchablec1384 treatablec1384 palpable1395 gropable14.. maniable1483 tangible1589 tactable1611 tactile1615 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Heb. xii. 18 Ȝe han not come to the tretable fyer [a1425 L.V. the fier able to be touchid]..and able to come to. ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Hiij What woundes of the bely are moste peryllous and moste dyfficyle to heale?.. They in the myddes of the bely, bycause the partyes there ben more treatable. 3. Capable of being or proper to be treated or dealt with. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [adjective] > feasible > capable of being dealt with treatable1570 feasible1611 copable1667 dealable1667 possible1864 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Aiv/1 There be many other [adjs.] in Able, deriued of Englishe verbes,..as,..Treatable, worthy, or able to be treated vpon. 1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 614 More liable to the rigour of Martiall law and treatable as a greater enemy. 1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. 44 Treatable by the common Rules of Art. 1833 C. Lamb Barrenness Imaginative Faculty in Last Ess. Elia 186 From the moment that Sancho loses his reverence, Don Quixote is become a—treatable lunatic. Derivatives ˈtreatableness n. the quality of being treatable; †in quots., tractability, docility; clearness of utterance; mildness of disposition. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > clearness, lucidity > [noun] > of speech treatableness1526 sensibleness?1575 articulateness1677 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > gentleness or mildness > [noun] sweetnessc1000 mildnessOE lithenessc1175 mildshipa1200 softnessa1200 mildheadc1300 softheadc1350 mansuetudec1390 tendresse1390 tendernessa1400 gentleness?c1400 mansuetiea1500 suavitude1512 treatableness1526 placability1531 lenity1548 pleasableness1556 mollity1562 fair1599 lenitude1627 placableness1647 unaggressiveness1870 society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [noun] > tractability treatableness1526 tractability1531 conformablenessa1533 tractableness1561 docility1603 ductility1654 amenableness1761 amenability1774 ductibility1795 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. DDDiiiv In dede iustice, In workes mercy, In maners discipline and tretablenesse. 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke i. x. 21 To..furnysh it with Elegance of termes & picked wordes:..to vtter it with comely gesture..for the conuenient treatablenesse thereof, doth teache and plainly declare the thing. 1700 P. Rycaut Hist. Turks III. 410 He commended the Wisdom of the present Vizier, his Humanity and Treatableness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1303 |
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