单词 | undisciplinable |
释义 | undisciplinableadj. (un- prefix1 1b.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] > that cannot be trained indisciplinable1600 indocile1603 undisciplinablea1652 unlickable1845 untrainable1864 a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1821) vi. i. 183 God..would not make us so undisciplinable in divine things. 1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine: 2nd Pt. 97 Such [boys] as are undisciplineable, are after some years of probation sent away to Mechanical Imployments. 1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas IV. xii. vi. 201 I imagined that the pedagogues..would find their Latin thrown away, believing one at his age undisciplinable. 1815 L. Simond Jrnl. Tour Great Brit. I. 371 How can you expect to succeed with this undisciplinable spirit. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 52 The..wild ass of the east, is heady, unruly, undisciplinable. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.a1652 |
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