docity

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Docility; quickness of comprehension. dialectal,obsolete,uncountable
    — Very well Sirrah, they dy’d in an honourable Calling—but hark’y’ Rag———I have Buſineſs———very earneſt Buſineſs abroad this Evening, now were you a Raſcal of Docity, you wou’d invent a way———to get home my laſt Suit that was laid in Lavender———with the Appurtenances thereunto belonging, as Perriwig, Cravat———and———ſo forth———

词源

Origin doubtful; supposed to be an alteration of docility. Possibly from doc-, the stem of Latin doceō (“I teach”) + -ity.
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