Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being educed.

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  • adjective Capable of being educed.

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  • adjective Able to be elicited or evoked
  • adjective Able to be deduced

Etymologies

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educe +‎ -ible

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Examples

  • Now it is educible: if the Creator of the race of men who inhabit the terrestrial globe had intended for them a future state or destination differing in every respect from their present one, he would have prepared their minds for different pursuits, and ordained them for other occupations than those they follow to the very grave.

    Strange Visitors Henry J. Horn

  • In the one case of forms not so educible, the efficient cause (God) creates and infuses them into matter.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran -- have assured me that they could readily reconcile the dogmas of their respective Churches with doctrines educible from the primitive text of "Job," "Koheleth," and

    The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur Emile Joseph Dillon 1894

  • This fact St. Thomas expresses in the physical terms of his time: "If any particular matter, e.g. fire or air, were despoiled of its form, it is manifest that the potentiality towards other educible forms remaining in it would not be so ample, as is the case in regard to matter (considered) universally" (De Nat.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

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