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Webster 1828 Edition

Intractable

INTRACT'ABLE

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Adj.

[L. intractabilis; in and tractabilis, tracto, to handle, manage, govern.]

1.

Not to be governed or managed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as an intractable temper.

2.

Not to be taught; indocile.