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doctrinable

doctrinable adjective: of the nature of doctrine, or able to be doctrined.

Adjective

doctrinable (comparative more doctrinable, superlative most doctrinable)

  1. 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 Iuftinea. 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...

Forms of doctrinable

comparativemore doctrinable
superlativemost doctrinable

Origin of doctrinable

From doctrine + -able.

Questions about doctrinable

What does doctrinable mean?
Doctrinable means of the nature of doctrine, or able to be doctrined.
What part of speech is doctrinable?
Doctrinable is an adjective.

Words near doctrinable in the dictionary

  1. doctours
  2. doctourship
  3. doctress
  4. doctresses
  5. doctrices
  6. doctrinable
  7. doctrinaire
  8. doctrinairely
  9. doctrinaires
  10. doctrinairism
  11. doctrinairisms

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