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docible, a. Obs.|ˈdɒsɪb(ə)l|
[ad. L. docibil-is teachable, f. docēre to teach: see -ble.]
1. Apt to be taught; teachable, docile; submissive to teaching or training, tractable.
1549Latimer 2nd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 70 Lorde, sayed he, Da mihi cor docile. He asked a docible herte. 1601Holland Pliny I. 293 Linnets..be very docible. 1644Milton Educ. Wks. (1847) 99/2 Their tenderest and most docible age. 1783Ld. Hailes Antiq. Chr. Ch. iv. 147 A young and docible philosopher.
†b. Const. of, to, in. Obs.
1617Bp. Hall Quo Vadis iii, This age..is therfore more docible of euill. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 188 The Prince, docible in such like disciplines. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 532 Persons..most docible to instruction.
2. Capable of being imparted by teaching.
1659Stanley Hist. Philos. III. iii. 82 Corporealls are not docible nor admit certain knowledge. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1692) 28 Learning anything that is docible. |