teachless

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teachless (comparative more teachless, superlative most teachless)

(archaic) Not teachable.
- 1818-1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Julian and Maddalo
  […] if man be
  The passive thing you say, I should not see
  Much harm in the religions and old saws
  (Tho' I may never own such leaden laws)
  Which break a teachless nature to the yoke.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “teachless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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