单词 | docity |
释义 | docityn. dialect. Docility; quickness of comprehension; ‘gumption’. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > qualities of learners > [noun] > aptness to be taught docility1560 teachableness1571 docibility1607 docibleness1638 disciplinablenessa1676 docity1682 educability1815 educatability1832 teachability1876 1682 A. Behn False Count ii i. 18 With good instructions I shall improve; I thank Heav'n I have Dossety, or so. 1687 A. Behn Luckey Chance ii. i. 17 Were you a Rascal of Docity, you wou'd invent a way. 1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) ii. 12 Tha hast no Stroil ner Docity,—no Vittiness in enny keendest Theng. 1786 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XII. 155 I cannot help it, if people have no docity. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Docity, docility, quick comprehension. Glouc. 1825 E. Hewlett Cottage Comforts vi. 40 If she has but..docity or gumption, that is, if she has got the use of her wits and the use of her hands. 1838 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 2nd Ser. 243 She's all docity jist now, keep her so. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. (at cited word) She seems to have no mind, no dossity whatever. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1682 |
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