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Docilely

[dos-uhl; Brit. doh-sahyl]

Origin

adjective

easily managed or handled; tractable: a docile horse.

readily trained or taught; teachable.

Origin:
1475–85; < Latin docilis readily taught, equivalent to doc(ēre) to teach + -ilis -ile

Related forms

doc·ile·ly, adverb

do·cil·i·ty

[do-sil-i-tee, doh-] , noun

Synonyms
1. manageable, malleable; obedient.

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docile (ˈdəʊsaɪl)

—*adj*
1.	easy to manage, control, or discipline; submissive
2.	rare ready to learn; easy to teach

[C15: from Latin docilis easily taught, from docēre to teach]

'docilely

—*adv*

docility

—n

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Word Origin & History

docile

late 15c., from It. or Fr. docile, from L. docilis "easily taught," from docere "teach" (see doctor). Sense of "obedient, submissive" first recorded 1774.

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"Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. When they fail to come off its clergy simply say that they will be realized later on. Thus, if we have another boom, they will argue that the collapse of capitalism is only postponed. The fact that the greatest booms ever heard of followed Marx's formal prophecy of the downfall of capitalism is already forgotten, just as millions have long since forgotten the early Christian prophecy that the end of the world was at hand. The first Christians accepted postponements as docilely as the Communists of today."

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