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English
Etymology
From dominate + -able.
Adjective
dominable (comparative more dominable, superlative most dominable)
- Subject to domination; able to be dominated.
1861, Isaak August Dorner, History of the Development of the Doctrine of the Person of Christ:One part of the science of God is dominable by reason, is capable of being rationally cognised : this is the natural science of God, metaphysics.
2003, Philip Auslander, Performance: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, →ISBN, page 289:Geertz, a pioneer of these processes (they are not yet frozen into "methods"), recognizes them as ways of handling the new world that has borne itself since World War II: a world of colliding cultures no longer dominated by Europeans and Americans, and no longer dominable by anyone.
- 2009, C. Boyd James, Garvey, Garveyism, and the antinomies in Black redemption, page 130:DuBois was slowed and occupied by the paralyzing madness of "Europe gone mad," "the terrible soul of white culture — back of all culture — stripped and visible" but still dominable.
- (mathematics) Order bounded in the universal completion.
1978, Charalambos D. Aliprantis, Owen Burkinshaw, Locally solid Riesz spaces, →ISBN, page 170:An important tool for the study of laterally complete Riesz spaces is the notion of the dominable set, which is introduced next.
Anagrams
Spanish
Etymology
dominar + -able
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /domiˈnable/
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: do‧mi‧na‧ble
Adjective
dominable m or f (masculine and feminine plural dominables)
- That can be dominated; easy to dominate.
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