adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a teachable manner; with docility.
1630. J. Randall, 23 Serm., xviii. 171. Teachers you know must speake plainly, they must speake teachably, they must deliver the matter with a lively voyce.
1743. H. Dodwell, Christianity not founded on Argument, 3rd Letter, 44–5. When we have discovered the Evidence of a Divine Revelation, which the Natural Weakness of our Minds might engage us to wish, and to enquire after, we are teachably to submit to its Instructions.
1804. Eugenia de Acton, Tale without Title, I. 143. If these superficial gentry would … be teachably humble.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., i. I. 47. The child who teachably and undoubtingly listens to the instruction of his elders.
