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compliable, a.|kəmˈplaɪəb(ə)l|
[f. comply v. + -able.]
1. Apt or inclined to comply; disposed to agree and act in accord; compliant. ? Obs.
a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 24 How compliable soever and obsequious she found them. 1643Milton Divorce ii. xvi, Not the joining of another body will remove loneliness, but the uniting of another compliable mind. 1657Reeve God's Plea 42 Make him vary, or put a plyable, compliable Tongue into his mouth. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. II. 113 His place supplied by one of a more compliable disposition. 1803Pic Nic No. 3. I. 97 In as good and compliable a state as I ever remember them.
†2. Accordable, reconcilable, accordant. Obs.
1642Milton Apol. Smect. xi. (1847) 94/1 If this were all, perhaps it were a compliable matter. 1667H. More Div. Dial. i. §30 (1713) 66 Any thing that is compliable with the Dictates of the noble Des-Cartes. 1746Jortin Chr. Relig. i. (R.), The Jews, by their own interpretations, had made their religion compliable and accommodated to their passions.
Hence comˈpliableness, comˈpliably adv.
1684H. More An Answer 208 Its suppleness and compliableness to cleave to that which is stronger. |