DOMABLE ADJ. easy to be tamed, tamable ...1623 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from late Latin domābilis (tamable) from domāre (to tame) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1623 - Domable. Easie to be tamed From: The English Dictionarie: Or, An Interpreter of Hard English Words - Henry Cockeram EXAMPLE "...That Gods righteous and holy children, who are both harmeless, and innocent doves, even as quiet and peaceable in the world as domable, or indomable doves are that sit upon their Columbaries, or other birds that perk themselves upon the highest or lowest branches, or as Dolphins in the Sea, which intend the Mariner no hurt nor harm, yet cannot the godly and the upright live at quiet for them in the world, for their arrows are dayly notched and upon their strings, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart..." From: Pelagos: Nec inter vivos, nec inter mortuos, neither amongst the living, nor amongst the dead. Or, An Improvement of the Sea, upon the Nine Nautical Verses in the 107. Psalm - Daniel Pell
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