Meanings
comparative more maniable · superlative most maniable
- obsoletemanageable
[A]nd it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churliſh, thwart, and mutinous; […]
1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 11, rectoSynonyms: controllable, governable, rulable, amenable, biddable, complaisant, compliant, controllable
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivemanageable
Origin
- Latinmanus“hand”
- Middle Frenchmaniable
- Middle Englishmanyable
- Englishmaniable
From Middle English manyable, from Middle French maniable, from manier (“to manage”), from Latin manus (“hand”). By surface analysis, man(us) + -i- + -able.
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