a. rare. [f. SUBDUE v. + -ABLE.] That may be subdued.

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1611.  Cotgr., Surmontable,… subduable.

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1662.  H. More, Phil. Writ., Pref. gen. (1712), p. x. A natural touch of Enthusiasm … such as, I thank God, was ever governable enough, and have found at length perfectly subduable.

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1839.  J. Rogers, Antipapopr., xii. § 5. 277. If the love of sin be hardly subduable by the fear of hell.

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1844.  Mrs. Browning, Drama of Exile, 1321. Who talks here … Of hate subduable to pity?

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