indocible

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adjective

Incapable of being taught, or not easily instructed; dull in intellect; intractable.

OriginLatin indocibilis →
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Meanings

adjectiveindocible (comparative more indocible, superlative most indocible)

comparative more indocible · superlative most indocible

  1. Incapable of being taught, or not easily instructed; dull in intellect; intractable.

    Let him alone, till time and ill example have hardened him; till he be settled in a habit of evil, and contracted and clung together with sensual delights; now he becomes utterly indocible.

    1630–1634, Joseph Hall, “[Occasional Meditations, […]] On the Sight of a Bladder.”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC, page 200

Origin

  1. Latinindocibilis
  2. Englishindocible

From Latin indocibilis. See in- (“not”) + docible.

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