constrainable
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
constrainable (comparative more constrainable, superlative most constrainable)
- Capable of being constrained.
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- by mere force of their agreement taken place as a law, making all men constrainable to be obedient thereunto
Further reading edit
- “constrainable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.