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restrainable, a.|rɪˈstreɪnəb(ə)l|
[f. restrain v. + -able.]
Capable of being restrained.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 262 Nor is the hand of the Painter more restrainable than the pen of the Poet. 1649Canne Golden Rule 30 Such a power is restrainable and punishable by the subject. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. i. i, Mad movements both, restrainable by no known rule. 1859Hawthorne Marb. Faun (1878) II. i. 10 Never quite restrainable within the trammels of social law. 1891Pall Mall G. 15 Sept. 6/2 That such people should be detainable and restrainable in such public institutions. |