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Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk. [Obs.] Shak

Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative. Milton. Carlyle.

Intractable; not yielding to culture. [R.] "Ill-natured land." J. Philips. -- Ill`-na"tured*ly, adv. -- Ill`-na"tured*ness, n.

Intractableness; stubbornness.

Not to be overcome, presuaded, or controlled by any reasonable method; unmanageable; intractable; not capable of being easily dealt with; -- used in a general sense, as applied to a person or thing that is difficult to control or get along with. This though, impracticable heart Is governed by a dainty-fingered girl. Ro…

Incapable of being taught, or not easily instructed; dull in intellect; intractable; unteachable; indocile. Bp. Hall. -- In*doc"i*ble*ness, n.

isposed to be taught, trained, or disciplined; not easily instructed or governed; dull; intractable.

The quality or state of being indocile; dullness of intellect; unteachableness; intractableness. The stiffness and indocility of the Pharisees. W. Montagu.

The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.

Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.

Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse.

Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable. "Obdurate consonants." Swift.

Capable of being ordered; tractable. [R.] Being very orderable in all his sickness. Fuller.

Obstinate in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary. To so perverse a sex all grace is vain. Dryden.

a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart. The will was then ductile and pliant to right reason. South.

Governable; tractable. [Obs.]

Retractable.

particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tubercul…

To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable. Diffidence conciliates the proud, and softens the severe. Rambler.

ate or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity. Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration itself. Bentley.