Word Meanings - INDOCILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not teachable; indisposed to be taught, trained, or disciplined; not easily instructed or governed; dull; intractable.

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• TEACHABLENESS
  Willingness to be taught.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• TRAINING
  The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• DISCIPLINER
  One who disciplines.
• TRAINABLE
  Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
• GOVERNABLENESS
  The quality of being governable; manageableness.
• GOVERNANCE
  Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman.
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• DISCIPLINARIAN
  Pertaining to discipline. "Displinarian system." Milman.
• INDISPOSE
  1. To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify. 2. To disorder slightly as regards health; to make somewhat. Shak. It made him rather indisposed than sick. Walton. 3. To disincline; to render averse or unfavorable; as, a love of pleasure indisposes
• INDISPOSITION
  1. The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine. A general indisposition towards believing. Atterbury. 2. A slight disorder or illness. Rather as an indisposition in health than as
• TRAINER
  1. One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength. 2. A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. Bartlett.
• INTRACTABLE
  Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child. Syn. -- Stubborn; perverse; obstinate; refractory; cross; unmanageable;
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• GOVERNING
  Requiring a particular case. (more info) 1. Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state. Jay.
• GOVERNANTE
  A governess. Sir W. Scott.
• DISCIPLINAL
  Relating to discipline. Latham.
• GOVERNABILITY
  Governableness.
• TRAIN DISPATCHER
  An official who gives the orders on a railroad as to the running of trains and their right of way.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• UNGOVERNABLE
  Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• UPTRAIN
  To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.
• CORRIDOR TRAIN
  A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• PREINDISPOSE
  To render indisposed beforehand. Milman.
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.