a. Also bidable. [f. BID + -ABLE. Of Scotch origin.] Ready to do what is bidden, obedient, willing, docile.
1826. J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1864, I. 259. Judicious, regular and biddable contributors.
1848. Dickens, Dombey (C. D. ed.), 61. I never saw a more biddable woman.
1862. H. Kingsley, Ravenshoe, xliv. (1864), 265. A more gentle and biddable invalid can hardly be conceived.
Hence Biddableness, Biddably adv. Sc.