a. Also bidable. [f. BID + -ABLE. Of Scotch origin.] Ready to do what is bidden, obedient, willing, docile.

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1826.  J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1864, I. 259. Judicious, regular … and biddable contributors.

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1848.  Dickens, Dombey (C. D. ed.), 61. I never saw a more biddable woman.

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1862.  H. Kingsley, Ravenshoe, xliv. (1864), 265. A more gentle and biddable invalid … can hardly be conceived.

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  Hence Biddableness, Biddably adv. Sc.

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