a. rare. [f. prec. + -ABLE.] That can be constrained, liable to constraint.
1594. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., I. (1632), 73. They are now by vertue of humane law become constrainable, and if they transgresse, punishable. Ibid., VI. iv. § 11. Before Novatian’s uprising, no man was constrainable to confess publicly any sin.
