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docile

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doc⋅ile

  [dos-uhl; Brit. doh-sahyl]
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–adjective
1. easily managed or handled; tractable: a docile horse.
2. readily trained or taught; teachable.
Origin:
1475–85; < L docilis readily taught, equiv. 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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doc·ile   (dŏs'əl, -īl')   
adj.  

  1. Ready and willing to be taught; teachable.

  2. Yielding to supervision, direction, or management; tractable.


[Latin docilis, from docēre, to teach; see dek- in Indo-European roots.]
doc'ile·ly adv., do·cil'i·ty (dŏ-sĭl'ĭ-tē, dō-) n.
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Word Origin & History

docile 
1483, from It. or Fr. docile, from L. docilis "easily taught," from docere "teach" (see doctor). Sense of "obedient, submissive" first recorded 1774.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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