doctrinable

English

Etymology

From doctrine +‎ -able.

Adjective

doctrinable (comparative more doctrinable, superlative most doctrinable)

1. (obsolete) Of the nature of, or constituting, doctrine.
   • 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:

     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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “doctrinable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)