a. [as if ad. L. *ēducābilis, f. ēducā-re to educate.] Capable of being educated.
1839. J. Simpson, in Monthly Chron., IV. 475. The observing, or educable, mental faculties.
1845. R. W. Hamilton, Pop. Educ., viii. (ed. 2), 178. Of educable age.
1879. Bain, Education as Science, iii. 24. In old age, when we cease to be educable in any fresh endowment.
1886. Sat. Rev., 1 May, 590/1. Tories will prove educable.
