Governable [adjective]

If left to a late period they retain all the impetuous ferocity of the male sex, and are scarcely governable.

The rage of the outlaw grew momently darker and less governable.

We are almost in love with one another: but she is most egregiously ugly; but perfectly well-bred, and governable as I please.

This latter would make the Men more governable, and consequently better Troops, and all together would make a great Noise.

They exist partly as producers to maintain, partly as governable matter to obey, the Guardians; and to be cared for by them.

Herein we find suggestive hints concerning the natural man; he must be governed from without, till he become self-governable.

He chose to remain away until it should have sufficiently worn down to be governable.

What he does not like will then be the forbidding law of a most governable people, what he does like the consenting.

But the baroness and he were of one opinion, that Alvan in love was not likely to be governable by prudent counsel.

Even ambition, the least governable of all human passions, could then yield to the necessities of the State.