docible

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English

Etymology

From Latin docibilis, from docere (to teach). Compare docile.

Adjective

docible (comparative more docible, superlative most docible)

  1. (obsolete) Easily taught, tamed or managed; teachable.
    • , [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC, page 3:
      I doubt not but ye ſhall have more adoe to drive out dulleſt and lazieſt youth [...] then we have now to hale and drag our choiſeſt and hopefulleſt wits to that aſinine feaſt of ſowthiſtles and brambles which is commonly ſet before them, as all the food and entertainment of their tendereſt and moſt docible age.

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