doctrinable en · ADJ
Etymology
From doctrine + -able.
Meanings
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Of the nature of doctrine, or able to be doctrined.
But if the question be for your owne vse and learning, whether it be better to haue it set downe as it should be, or as it was: then certainely is more doctrinable the fained Cirus of Xenophon then the true Cyrus in Iuftine
a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Henry Olney, […], published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: [Alexander Murray & Son], 1 April 1868, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most doctrinable | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more doctrinable | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |