Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Docile

Docile , adjective

[Latin docilis,from docere to teach; compare Greek {not transcribed}, and Latin discere to learn, Greek {not transcribed} learned, {not transcribed} knowing: compare French docile. Compare Doctor, Didactic, Disciple.]

1.
Teachable; easy to teach; docible. [Obsolete]
2.
Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.
The elephant is at once docible and docile. — C. J. Smith