单词 | disciplinable |
释义 | disciplinableadj. 1. Amenable to discipline or instruction; (in early use) ready or able to learn; (later) capable of being instructed, trained, or controlled. Cf. discipline v. 2. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > qualities of learners > [adjective] > teachable disciplinablec1454 appliant1483 docile1483 teachable1483 towardly1528 docible1549 schoolable1594 instructable1603 disciplinala1628 instructible1645 educable1834 educationable1852 educatable1868 c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 105 (MED) Suffraunce is oon remedie into tyme peple chaunge and falle fro her furie, and be more disciplinable forto rede or here what is to be take for treuþ. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 196v Of Elephantes, how disciplinable and of how greate prudence, docilitee and..capacitee and aptitude thei are. 1559 Abp. M. Parker Let. 1 Mar. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 63 If ye see ought in my quire worth reformation, ye know I am disciplinable. 1639 F. Marcombes Let. in Lismore Papers (1888) 2nd Ser. IV. 101 Your hopefull sons..are very noble, vertuous, discret and disciplinable. 1778 tr. S. N. H. Linguet Polit. & Philos. Speculations iii. 78 However disciplinable..these are, yet education cannot be brought to curb their stomachs. 1840 J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) II. 146 Instead of the most disciplinable one of the most intractable races among mankind. 1889 Temple Bar Nov. 406 Lads..who were disciplinable to take a special line. 1922 E. F. Lynch Bookless Lessons for Teacher-mother iv. 37 A normal, healthy baby is disciplinable, but parental neglect may make it undisciplinable and spoil it. 1986 Financial Times 24 July 20/5 The automatic..assumptions that workers were disciplinable into political camps by their unions have suffered many knocks. 2005 Seattle Weekly (Nexis) 23 Mar. 25 These governments..may not be disciplinable by the international corporate structure. ΚΠ 1603 M. Kellison Surv. New Relig. Table sig. AAaiiv How disciplinable feare and hope make men in euerye well ordered common wealthe. 1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) xxiv. 255 Aufidius Cassius..did punish divers fugitive Souldiers..by cutting off their hands and feete, affirming that such punishment was more exemplary and disciplinable than the putting of them to Death. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [adjective] instructivea1492 preceptivea1525 instructing1561 documentalc1575 dogmatical1580 doctrinablea1586 doctrinal1597 didactical1603 didascalic1609 tutorly1611 schooling1614 indoctrinating1642 disciplinable1644 docenta1645 institutionary1646 protreptic1658 protreptical1662 dogmatic1678 educating1699 didactive1723 educativea1750 tuitive1776 educatory1792 didactic1799 instructional1801 tuitionary1816 instructionary1824 didascalara1846 teaching1853 tuitional1861 documentary1873 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. ix. 419 Those Philosophers, who in a disciplinable way search into nature. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 311 Animals..are advanceable by Industry and disciplinable Acts to a great perfection. 4. Subject or liable to discipline or chastisement; requiring or deserving of censure or punishment; punishable. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [adjective] > entailing punishment (of offence) punishable1435 penal1569 disciplinable1647 vengeable1650 subpenal1659 mulctable1678 disciplinary1832 penalized1848 1647 J. Noyes Temple Measured 53 As some things are Disciplinable in the Church, which are not punishable in the Common-wealth; so some persons are punishable in the Common-wealth, which are not Disciplinable in the Church. 1791 C. Strong Disc. Acts ii. 42 (ed. 2) 45 Those who own the convenant..do not mean to engage an attendance upon one plain and important institution; neither do such as admit them understand them as engaging to do it, or disciplinable if they neglect it. 1798 S. Griswold Statement Manner Proceeding Rev. Assoc. Litchfield County 11 Crimes and immoralities are justly disciplinable. 1810 C. Comstock Ess. Duty Parents & Children iv. 340 If any should be disposed to query, whether parents are not disciplinable for this want of faith in children, since it must be owing to their neglect of duty. 1870 R. Anderson Hist. Missions Amer. Board II. xix. 155 [They] had maintained their standing as Christians, and avoided all disciplinable offences. 1900 Legal Gaz. Jan. 5/1 To publish his professional card, even in a legal periodical, or to post it to a solicitor, would be a disciplinable offense. 1992 R. J. Adams & B. Adell in H.N. Wheeler & J. Rojot Workplace Justice iii. 112 Toleration of otherwise disciplinable conduct. 2009 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 2 Aug. a4 If you fall below a certain productivity level, they consider that disciplinable. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > qualities of learners > [noun] > aptness to be taught docility1560 teachableness1571 docibility1607 docibleness1638 disciplinablenessa1676 docity1682 educability1815 educatability1832 teachability1876 a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 16 We find in Animals..something of Sagacity, Providence, Disciplinableness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1454 |
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