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compliance|kəmˈplaɪəns|
Also 7 -plyance.
[f. comply v. + -ance; cf. appliance.]
The action, practice, or fact of complying; in various senses of the vb.
I. Related to obs. senses of comply.
†1. Practice of civility, complaisance. Obs.
1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. iii. 195 Though the Scepter be departed from them..yet have they had..all convenient connivences, and compliances from the State. 1662H. More Antid. Ath. Contents R iij a, His studied Condescension and compliance with the Atheist, to win him from his Atheism. 1681Baxter Apol. Nonconf. Min. 4 Mutual Compliances in gentle and amicable Conference. 1732T. Lediard Sethos II. x. 400 Publick duties ought to take place of domestick compliances.
†2. Accord, concord, agreement; amicable relations (between parties). Obs.
1647in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 143 It is the desire of Mr. Maior..that in all things their may be a free and faire complyance betwixt the townesmen and the soldiers. 1656Trapp Comm. Matt. xi. 17 He [Paul] tells them of his tears, and they answer him with tears: O happy compliance! 1666–7Marvell Corr. lxv, The happy compliance renewed betwixt them. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. xii. 280 May not..all Sects say the same against Concord and Complyance with you? 1722De Foe Plague (1756) 202 To move..both Sides to a more charitable Compliance one with another.
†3. Agreement in nature, construction, etc.; accord, harmony. Obs.
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. Ep. Ded. 4 Morall, not intellectual excellencies are of use and complyance with our present state and conjunction. 1659Hammond On Ps. lxxvi. 3 The Syriack in some degree of complyance with them render it. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 90 You must fit them to an exact Compliance of every Bevil with its Match. 1851S. Judd Margaret, Of due physical proportion and compliance.
†4. Complaisant or deferential agreement with a person; complaisant or servile accession to his wishes. Obs.
1648Milton Tenure Kings 2 Neither do bad men hate tyrants, but have been always readiest, with the falsified..names of Loyalty and Obedience to colour over their base compliances. 1659Vulgar Errours Censured iii. §1. 38 Since Adam came into compliance with the Serpent.
†5. A complaisant disposition; complaisance; = compliancy 2. Obs.
1667Milton P.L. viii. 603 All her words and actions mixed with love And sweet compliance. 1674M. Scrivener Course of Div. ii. vi. 393 A notable piece of modesty, condescension and complyance. 1749Fielding Tom Jones (1775) II. 269 Jones, who in the compliance of his disposition..a little resembled his lovely Sophia, was easily prevailed on. 1754Richardson Grandison II. ii. 21 It is not that graceful manner of obliging, in which you generally excel. Compliance and Reflection are not to be coupled.
II. Related to the current sense of comply.
6. a. The acting in accordance with, or the yielding to a desire, request, condition, direction, etc.; a consenting to act in conformity with; an acceding to; practical assent. Const. with, less often to.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. (1843) 17/2 [He] told him, he expected more compliance from him. 1648Eikon Bas. (1824) 8, I am so farre from excusing..that complyance on My part (for plenary consent it was not) to his destruction. 1688Col. Rec. Penn. I. 231 That his Complyance therewith is desired by The Goverr. 1711Earl of Oxford in Ellis Orig. Lett. ii. IV. 267 The Queen's compliance to your desires. 1749Fielding Tom Jones (1775) III. 84 Nor shall you ever have Sophia unless she can be brought freely to compliance. 1788Trifler No. 5. 62 An obsequious compliance to the will of a superior. 1874Green Short Hist. iv. §5 (1882) 200 A direct threat of rebellion forced him to swear compliance with its provisions.
b. Often absol.; also in bad sense, Unworthy accommodation or submission.
1665Boyle Occas. Refl. (1675) 356 In Matters indifferent, there is ofttimes requir'd by Prudence, as much of Compliance as is allow'd by Innocence. 1702Evelyn in Pepys' Diary VI. 255 In the most servile Compliances and basest offices. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 160 ⁋11 Few..can avoid disingenuous compliances. 1863W. Phillips Speeches xxiii. 498 All politics necessitates questionable compliances. 1872Morley Voltaire (1886) 198 The compliances of society..are not problems that he is fond of solving. 1874― Compromise (1886) 3 The aim of the present essay is..to seek one or two of the most general principles which ought to regulate the practice of compliance.
†c. The action of conforming in matters political or religious. Cf. complier 2 b. Obs.
1699Burnet 39 Art. xx. (1700) 194 It was only a Compliance, and not a Submission to their Opinions, that made them observe days, and distinguish meats. 1706Hearne Collect. 21 Apr., He was suspected of Hypocrisy and of mean Complyance. 1716Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 143 We, in this Presbytery, have deposed several schoolmasters for their compliances during the Rebellion. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. ix. 307 The government knew too well the temper of the clergy to trust to outward compliance.
7. in compliance with (less often to): in harmony, agreement, or accordance with; in submission or active obedience to.
1685Col. Rec. Penn. I. 55 In complyance with an Order of Councill Charles Ashcome appeared. 1744Berkeley Siris §155 In compliance with established language and the use of the world. 1746Eliza Heywood Female Spect. (1748) IV. 280 In compliance to the request made her by his lord. 1833H. Coleridge North. Worthies (1852) I. 33 In weak compliance to a popular clamour. 1834Whately in Life (1866) I. 231 To profess or do anything they think wrong in compliance to me. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxxii, In compliance with your wishes.
8. Mech. The property of a body or substance of yielding to an applied force or of allowing a change to be made in its shape; also, the degree of yielding, measured by the displacement produced by a unit change in the force.
1934in Webster. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 184/2 Compliance..the displacement in cm. corresponding to the application of the force of one dyne. 1950Electronic Engin. XXII. 435 If voltage be taken to represent force, and current to represent velocity, inductance corresponds to inertia and capacitance to compliance. 1955J. H. Comroe et al. Lung vii. 113 Physiologists now call this the ‘mechanical compliance’, or, more simply, the ‘compliance’ of the tissues; it is defined as the volume change per unit pressure change, and its units are liters/cm H2O. Ibid. 133 Her compliance was only 0·025 liters/cm H2O (1/5 of normal), so that her ventilation was inadequate even when..the maximal inflating pressure of a resuscitator was employed. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 245 Compliance is the acoustical and mechanical equivalent of capacitance. Ibid. 265 Styli with very high compliance can track at very low playing weights. |