a. [f. TRAIN v.1 + -ABLE.] Capable of being trained; amenable to discipline and instruction; educable.
c. 1550. (title) An Enterlude called Lusty Iuuentus, lyuely describing the frailtie of youth: of natur prone to vyce: by grace and good counsayll traynable to vertue.
1594. Carew, Huarte’s Exam. Wits, iii. (1596), 30. Amongst horses … some there are more trainable than the rest.
1600. Holland, Livy, XXXIX. xl. 1049. This man was by nature so trainable and pliant to all alike, that [etc.].
1869. Daily News, 20 Aug. If there were skilled labour, or even trainable labour, to carry it on.
1872. Ruskin, Fors Clav. (1896), I. xxii. 442. The horse, the noblest, because trainablest, of wild creatures.
