Meanings
- dialectalobsoleteuncountableDocility; quickness of comprehension.
Docity. Docility, quick comprehenſion. Glouc[estershire].
[1787, Francis Grose, “Docity”, in A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions, London: S[amuel] Hooper, […], →OCLC, signature D4, recto1 more example
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———
1686 (first performance), A[phra] Behn, The Luckey Chance, or An Alderman’s Bargain. A Comedy. […], London: […] R. H[olt], for W. Canning, […], published 1687, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 16
Origin
Origin doubtful; supposed to be an alteration of docility. Possibly from doc-, the stem of Latin doceō (“I teach”) + -ity.
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