rulableadj.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 242 (MED) Thei..trowiden that the bodili heuen and hise seid parties reuliden al that was reuleable here bynethe among men.

1596 F. Bacon Let. 4 Oct. in Resuscitatio (1657) ii. 107 For the removing the Impression, of your Nature, to be Opiniastre, and not Rulable.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 320 They make the horses..tractable, and rulable, to be turned, restrained, or put forward.

1672 H. Dodwell Two Lett. Advice Contents sig. d^v Some general Rules in managing a Parochial Cure for bringing the People to a ruleable temper.

a1730 R. Altham Serm. Several Occasions (1732) I. xiv. 267 It gives the soul what it ought to have, a commanding power and authority over the body: it makes that, what it ought to be, governable and rulable.

1821 J. Clare Let. 21 Mar. (1985) 168 If any one wou'd be rulable & suffer to be led by the hand.

1892 Ld. Tennyson Foresters iv. 126 If the land Were ruleable by tongue, thou shouldst be king.

1909 Putnam's Mag. Aug. 604/1 So rulable, so helpful and void of offence.

1970 E. P. Thompson Warwick Univ. Ltd. vii. 153 Superciliosus is the most divisible and rulable creature in this country.

2003 Africa News (Nexis) 26 May They earned poverty-facilitating wages that would guarantee they remained underdogs—easy to intimidate, divided and rulable.

1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? xxv. 201 But..I will take no such exception: I admit it ruleable euery way.

1828 J. W. Whitman Rep. Trial Supreme Court T. Lyman 51 It was always ruleable to take into consideration the character and standing of the party accused of a libel.

1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 170 He would take a cigar—not considered exactly fair, perhaps, but ‘rulable’ (occasionally) according to the standard of the country.

1905 M. Robertson Down to Sea 56 Hit below the water-line—it's rulable—and keep your head by all means.

1920 Public Health June 290 It is rulable to hit the center player with nothing but the slipper.