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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Ductile

/dŭk'-təl/ · Duc·tile · IPA /ˈdʌk.təl/
01 a. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
  1. 1.
    Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
    “Forms their ductile minds To human virtues.” — Philips.
  2. 2.
    Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads.
    “Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all metals.” Dryden.