[ad. L. tractābilitās, -āt-, f. tractābilis TRACTABLE: see -ITY, -ITY.] The quality of being tractable; manageableness, docility.
1531. Elyot, Gov., I. xxi. Tractabilitie (which is to be shortly persuaded and meued).
1605. A. Warren, Poverties Patience, ii. Vaine Perswasion, that deludes Fond Tractability with fallacies.
1778. [W. Marshall], Minutes Agric., Digest, 41. A further proof of their tractability.
1849. Lytton, Caxtons, I. iii. He, wild man,… not yet civilized into the tractabilities of home.
