The treatise opens with an exhortation to the child to learn French that he may speak fairly before wise men, for "heavy is he that is not taught": Cap: primum docet rethorice loqui de assimilitudine bestiarum.
Ipse docet quid agam: fas est et ab hoste doceri=--He himself teaches me what to do; one ought not to be above taking a lesson even from an enemy.
The editor would, however, be sorry to fall under the ban of the mediaeval adage: "Vir qui docet quod non sapit Definitur Bestia!
Musicam docet amor, licet prius fuerit rudis, how love makes them that had no skill before learn to sing and dance; he concludes, 'tis only that power and prerogative love hath over us.
Hæc fabula docetthat one should not keep three-fourths of his capital lying idle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "docet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
