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inductile, a.|ɪnˈdʌktɪl, -aɪl|
[in-3: cf. F. inductile (Littré).]
Not ductile; not pliable; unyielding to influences.
1736Ld. Hervey Mem. Geo. II, I. 57 The stuff she had to work with was so stubborn and so inductile. 1827J. Fearn in E. H. Barker Parriana (1828) I. 568 The human mind becomes extremely inductile to the pressure of any new evidence. 1828Webster, Inductile, not capable of being drawn into threads, as a metal. 1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1872) II. vi. xii. 156 Of bodies that resist in different modes..we have..the Ductile and Inductile. 1891F. W. Robinson Her Love & His Life I. iii. ix. 278 A man of honour,..but inductile, unimaginative, hard.
Hence inducˈtility, the quality of being inductile (so F. inductilité).
1828in Webster. |