educable

[English educ(ate); -able.] Capable of or fit for education; that may be edu cated. ěd-u-cāte, v . t. [Lat. educatus, pa. par. of educo =to bring out, to educate: e = ex =out, and duco to lead, to bring; Sp.educar , Ital.educare.] To bring up, as a child, to rear, to train up; to inform, cultivate, and improve the mental and intellectual pow. ers of; to instruct; to instill the principles of art, science, religion, ., into; to train up so as to be qualified for any busine or duties in life. "Some arm'd within-doors upon duty stay, Or tend the sick, or educate the young." Dryden Annus Mirabilis , cxlv. ed-u-cat-ěd, pa. par. or a. [EDUCATE.] A. As pa . par .: (See the vorb.) B As adjective : 1. Instructed, trained, taught. 2. More refined or cultivated. and colleges for the purpose have been established [TECHNICAL.) Mechanics' and other Institutes, Lectures, Libraries, Debating and other Societies, Political Clubs, , are all appliances for some department or other of education. Crabb thus discriminates between education, ( Watts : Dict. Chem .)