docious
Docile, amenable to order.
Adjective
- Docile, amenable to order.
- I stood it all quite docious till the Doctor talked of trying arsenic, and then kicked. […] [T]he best man that the Almighty ever planted on this side had been awfully murdered. Stranger, I can’t bear to think of it...
- I began to feel docious. Nothing was expected of me; she was a grown woman and she had the reins. - 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 137:
Origin
Related to docity. Ultimately from Latin doceō (“to teach”); see -ous.