Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ductile \Duc"tile\, a. [L. ductilis, fr. ducere to lead: cf. F.
   ductile. See {Duct}.]
   1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives,
      persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.
      --Addison.

            Forms their ductile minds To human virtues.
                                                  --Philips.

   2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or
      threads.

            Gold . . . is the softest and most ductile of all
            metals.                               --Dryden.
      -- {Duc"tile*ly}, adv. -- {Duc"tile*ness}, n.