docity
Docility; quickness of comprehension.
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———
Where it comes from
Origin doubtful; supposed to be an alteration of docility. Possibly from doc-, the stem of Latin doceō (“I teach”) + -ity.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry docity (CC BY-SA 4.0).