a. [f. LEARN v. + -ABLE.] That may be learnt.
1629. T. Adams, Medit. Creed, Wks. 1099. These bee mysteries, yet in some measure learneable.
1818. Bentham, Ch. Eng., Pref. xi. I learnt for my first lesson, the matter, in so far as it was learnable, of this formulary.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes, iii. (1858), 249. Dante,… we need not doubt, learned better than most all that was learnable.
1857. Kingsley, Two Y. Ago, xviii. When the lesson comes … I suppose it will come in some learnable shape.
1885. Tennyson, Balin, 127. Gifts Born with the blood, not learnable, divine.
