Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Deserving of or subject to discipline.
- adjective Responsive to training; easily taught.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being disciplined by instruction and of improvement in learning.
- Capable of being made matter of discipline: as, a disciplinable offense in church government.
- Subject or liable to discipline, as a member of a church.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being disciplined or improved by instruction and training.
- adjective Liable or deserving to be disciplined; subject to disciplinary punishment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That can be
instructed (by discipline); able to be taught. - adjective obsolete Relating to discipline;
disciplinary .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And must not this conclusion be strengthened, when they hear ministers of talent and learning declare that the Bible does sanction slaveholding, and that it ought not to be made a disciplinable offence in churches?
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The Celt, undisciplinable, anarchical, and turbulent by nature, but out of affection and admiration giving himself body and soul to some leader, that is not a promising political temperament, it is just the opposite of the Anglo-Saxon temperament, disciplinable and steadily obedient within certain limits, but retaining an inalienable part of freedom and self - dependence; but it is a temperament for which one has a kind of sympathy notwithstanding.
Celtic Literature Matthew Arnold 1855
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a round vaulted pallate, and a long throte, besides an excellent capacitie of wit that maketh him more disciplinable and imitative than any other creature: then as to the forme and action of his speach, it commeth to him by arte & teaching, and by vse or exercise.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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I find him soe disciplinable, and soe desirous to repare ye time Lost, yt I make no question but your Lordship shall receive a great ioye. "[
English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard
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