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dominable en · ADJ

Etymology

From dominate + -able.

Meanings

1. Subject to domination; able to be dominated.
   • DuBois was slowed and occupied by the paralyzing madness of "Europe gone mad," "the terrible soul of white culture — back of all culture — stripped and visible" but still dominable. - 2009, C. Boyd James, Garvey, Garveyism, and the antinomies in Black redemption, page 130:
   • One part of the science of God is dominable by reason, is capable of being rationally cognised : this is the natural science of God, metaphysics. 1861, Isaak August Dorner, History of the Development of the Doctrine of the Person of Christ:
   • Geertz, a pioneer of these processes (they are not yet frozen into "methods"), recognizes them as ways of handling the new world that has borne itself since World War II: a world of colliding cultures no longer dominated by Europeans and Americans, and no longer dominable by anyone. 2003, Philip Auslander, Performance: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, →ISBN, page 289:
2. Order bounded in the universal completion.
   • An important tool for the study of laterally complete Riesz spaces is the notion of the dominable set, which is introduced next. 1978, Charalambos D. Aliprantis, Owen Burkinshaw, Locally solid Riesz spaces, →ISBN, page 170:

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