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dominable

dominable adjective: subject to domination; able to be dominated.

Adjective

dominable (comparative more dominable, superlative most dominable)

  1. Subject to domination; able to be dominated.
    • 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

Forms of dominable

comparativemore dominable
superlativemost dominable

Origin of dominable

From dominate + -able.

Questions about dominable

What does dominable mean?
Dominable means subject to domination; able to be dominated.
What part of speech is dominable?
Dominable is an adjective.

Words near dominable in the dictionary

  1. domify
  2. domifying
  3. Domin
  4. domina
  5. dominability
  6. dominable
  7. dominae
  8. dominance
  9. dominances
  10. dominancies
  11. dominancy

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