compliancen.

Brit.

/kəmˈplʌɪəns/, U.S.

/kəmˈplaɪəns/

Forms: Also 1600s complyance.

Etymology: < comply v.¹ + -ance suffix; compare appliance.

The action, practice, or fact of complying; in various senses of the verb.

I. Related to obsolete senses of comply v.¹

†1. Practice of civility, complaisance. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > [noun] > obligingness or complaisance

humouring1602

complacence1626

obligingness1638

complying1639

compliance1641

complacency1651

complaisance1651

accommodableness1663

obligation1664

complaisancy1710

prevenience1751

compliancy1765

prevenancy1768

prevenance1823

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 195 Though the Scepter be departed from them..yet have they had..all convenient connivences, and compliances from the State.

1662 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 3) Contents sig. Riij, in Coll. Philos. Writings (ed. 2) His studied Condescension and compliance with the Atheist, to win him from his Atheism.

1681 R. Baxter Apol. Nonconformists Ministry 4 Mutual Compliances in gentle and amicable Conference.

1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. x. 400 Publick duties ought to take place of domestick compliances.

†2. Accord, concord, agreement; amicable relations (between parties). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > [noun] > amity or good terms

peacea1350

amity1437

amicableness1646

compliance1647

a good (or right) understanding1649

the mind > language > speech > agreement > consent > [noun] > compliance

concession1473

ottroye1480

yielding1597

condescendence1638

compliancy1643

compliance1647

comportance1648

condescension1650

acquiescence1654

condescending1656

condescendment1693

concedence1748

concessiveness1872

1647 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. 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.

1656 J. Trapp Comm. Matt. xi. 17 He [Paul] tells them of his tears, and they answer him with tears: O happy compliance!

1666–7 A. Marvell Corr. lxv The happy compliance renewed betwixt them.

1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. xii. 280 May not..all Sects say the same against Concord and Complyance with you?

1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 202 To move..both Sides to a more charitable Compliance one with another.

†3. Agreement in nature, construction, etc.; accord, harmony. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun]

accordmentc1330

accorda1398

consonancya1398

unitya1398

accordancea1400

commoningc1400

convenience1413

correspondence1413

answeringc1425

conformityc1430

consonance1430

congruity1447

concordancec1450

consonantc1475

agreement1495

monochordc1500

conveniencya1513

agreeance1525

agreeableness1531

concinnity1531

congruence1533

harmony?1533

concent1563

tunableness1569

agreeing1575

answerableness1577

concert1578

consent1578

sympathy1578

concord1579

symphonia1579

correspondency1589

atone1595

coherence1597

respondence1598

symphony1598

sortance1600

coherency1603

respondency1603

symbolizing1605

coaptation1614

compositiona1616

sympathizing1632

comportance1648

compliance1649

syntax1649

concinneness1655

symmetry1655

homology1656

consistency1659

consentaneousness1660

consistence1670

comportment1675

harmoniousness1679

symbolism1722

congruousness1727

accordancy1790

sameness1790

consentaneity1798

consilience1840

chime1847

consensus1854

solidarity1874

synchromesh1966

concordancing1976

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar Ep. Ded. 4 Morall, not intellectual excellencies are of use and complyance with our present state and conjunction.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (lxxvi. 3 Annot.) 376/1 The Syriack in some degree of complyance with them render it.

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. v. 87 You must fit them to an exact complyance of every Bevil with its Match.

1851 S. Judd Margaret (rev. ed.) Of due physical proportion and compliance.

†4. Complaisant or deferential agreement with a person; complaisant or servile accession to his wishes. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [noun] > servile agreement

assentation1481

suppleness1638

compliance1649

yessirring1928

the mind > language > speech > agreement > consent > [noun] > complacent or deferential

compliance1649

complacency1652

unthink1958

1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 2 Neither doe bad men hate Tirants, but have been alwaies readiest with the falsifi'd names of Loyalty and Obedience, to colour over their base compliances.

1659 O. Walker Περιαμμα Ἐπιδήμιον iii. §1. 38 Since Adam came into compliance with the Serpent.

†5. A complaisant disposition; complaisance; = compliancy n. 2. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [noun] > compliancy

correspondence1530

suppleness?1570

pliantness1578

appliableness1587

correspondency1587

flexibleness1623

complacence1626

complacency1651

complaisance1651

pliancy1663

compliance1667

compliableness1684

flexibility1703

complaisancy1710

compliancy1765

pliability1768

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > [noun] > obligingness or complaisance > as quality or disposition

accommodation1632

compliance1667

accommodativeness1834

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 603 All her words and actions, mixt with Love And sweet compliance .

1674 M. Scrivener Course Divinity ii. vi. 393 A notable piece of modesty, condescension and complyance.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. x. 266 Jones, who in the Compliance of his Disposition..a little resembled his lovely Sophia, was easily prevailed on.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles 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 v.¹

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.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > obedience > [noun] > action in accordance with a desire or request

pliance1607

appliancea1616

compliancy1643

comportance1648

compliance1649

obsequience1830

1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη (1824) 8 I am so farre from excusing..that complyance on My part (for plenary consent it was not) to his destruction.

1688 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 231 That his Complyance therewith is desired by The Goverr.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 34 [He] told him, ‘he expected more compliance from him’.

1711 Earl of Oxford in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. ii. IV. 267 The Queen's compliance to your desires.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvi. vi. 56 Nor shall you ever have her, unless she can be brought freely to compliance .

1788 Trifler No. 5. 62 An obsequious compliance to the will of a superior.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iv. §5. 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.

ΚΠ

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. vi. v. sig. Nn7 In Matters indifferent, there is oft-times requir'd by Prudence, as much of Compliance as is allow'd by Innocence.

1703 J. Evelyn Let. 20 Jan. in S. Pepys Private Corr. (1926) II. 301 In the most servile complyances and basest offices.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 160. ⁋11 Few..can avoid disingenuous compliances.

1863 W. Phillips Speeches xxiii. 498 All politics necessitates questionable compliances.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire iv. 187 The compliances of society,..are not problems that he is fond of solving.

1874 J. Morley On Compromise 2 The aim of the present writer 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 n. 2b. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > conformity > [noun]

conformity1622

compliturea1624

compliance1699

1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xx. 194 It was only a Compliance, and not a Submission to their Opinions, that made them observe days, and distinguish meats.

1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 21 Apr. He was suspected of Hypocrisy and of mean Complyance.

1716 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 143 We, in this Presbytery, have deposed several schoolmasters for their compliances during the Rebellion.

1856 J. A. Froude 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.

ΚΠ

1685 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 55 In complyance with an Order of Councill Charles Ashcome appeared.

1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §155 In compliance with established language and the use of the world.

1746 E. Haywood Female Spectator (1748) IV. 280 In compliance to the request made her by his lord.

1834 R. Whately in E. J. Whately Life & Corr. R. Whately (1866) I. 231 To profess or do anything they think wrong in compliance to me.

1852 Coleridge's Lives N. Worthies I. 33 In weak compliance to a popular clamour.

1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood xxxii In compliance with your wishes.

8. Mechanics. 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > stress or force exerted and tending to deform > [noun] > alteration of form or dimensions caused by stress > property of yielding to stress

compliance1934

the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > measure > [noun] > property of tissue measured by applied pressure

compliance1955

1934 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 184/2 Compliance..the displacement in cm. corresponding to the application of the force of one dyne.

1950 Electronic Engin. 22 435 If voltage be taken to represent force, and current to represent velocity, inductance corresponds to inertia and capacitance to compliance.

1955 J. 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.

1955 J. H. Comroe et al. Lung vii. 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.

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 245 Compliance is the acoustical and mechanical equivalent of capacitance.

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 265 Styli with very high compliance can track at very low playing weights.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	compliance
释义	compliancen. Brit. /kəmˈplʌɪəns/, U.S. /kəmˈplaɪəns/ Forms: Also 1600s complyance. Etymology: < comply v.¹ + -ance suffix; compare appliance. The action, practice, or fact of complying; in various senses of the verb. I. Related to obsolete senses of comply v.¹ †1. Practice of civility, complaisance. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > [noun] > obligingness or complaisance humouring1602 complacence1626 obligingness1638 complying1639 compliance1641 complacency1651 complaisance1651 accommodableness1663 obligation1664 complaisancy1710 prevenience1751 compliancy1765 prevenancy1768 prevenance1823 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 195 Though the Scepter be departed from them..yet have they had..all convenient connivences, and compliances from the State. 1662 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 3) Contents sig. Riij, in Coll. Philos. Writings (ed. 2) His studied Condescension and compliance with the Atheist, to win him from his Atheism. 1681 R. Baxter Apol. Nonconformists Ministry 4 Mutual Compliances in gentle and amicable Conference. 1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. x. 400 Publick duties ought to take place of domestick compliances. †2. Accord, concord, agreement; amicable relations (between parties). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > [noun] > amity or good terms peacea1350 amity1437 amicableness1646 compliance1647 a good (or right) understanding1649 the mind > language > speech > agreement > consent > [noun] > compliance concession1473 ottroye1480 yielding1597 condescendence1638 compliancy1643 compliance1647 comportance1648 condescension1650 acquiescence1654 condescending1656 condescendment1693 concedence1748 concessiveness1872 1647 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. 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. 1656 J. Trapp Comm. Matt. xi. 17 He [Paul] tells them of his tears, and they answer him with tears: O happy compliance! 1666–7 A. Marvell Corr. lxv The happy compliance renewed betwixt them. 1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. xii. 280 May not..all Sects say the same against Concord and Complyance with you? 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 202 To move..both Sides to a more charitable Compliance one with another. †3. Agreement in nature, construction, etc.; accord, harmony. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] accordmentc1330 accorda1398 consonancya1398 unitya1398 accordancea1400 commoningc1400 convenience1413 correspondence1413 answeringc1425 conformityc1430 consonance1430 congruity1447 concordancec1450 consonantc1475 agreement1495 monochordc1500 conveniencya1513 agreeance1525 agreeableness1531 concinnity1531 congruence1533 harmony?1533 concent1563 tunableness1569 agreeing1575 answerableness1577 concert1578 consent1578 sympathy1578 concord1579 symphonia1579 correspondency1589 atone1595 coherence1597 respondence1598 symphony1598 sortance1600 coherency1603 respondency1603 symbolizing1605 coaptation1614 compositiona1616 sympathizing1632 comportance1648 compliance1649 syntax1649 concinneness1655 symmetry1655 homology1656 consistency1659 consentaneousness1660 consistence1670 comportment1675 harmoniousness1679 symbolism1722 congruousness1727 accordancy1790 sameness1790 consentaneity1798 consilience1840 chime1847 consensus1854 solidarity1874 synchromesh1966 concordancing1976 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar Ep. Ded. 4 Morall, not intellectual excellencies are of use and complyance with our present state and conjunction. 1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (lxxvi. 3 Annot.) 376/1 The Syriack in some degree of complyance with them render it. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. v. 87 You must fit them to an exact complyance of every Bevil with its Match. 1851 S. Judd Margaret (rev. ed.) Of due physical proportion and compliance. †4. Complaisant or deferential agreement with a person; complaisant or servile accession to his wishes. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [noun] > servile agreement assentation1481 suppleness1638 compliance1649 yessirring1928 the mind > language > speech > agreement > consent > [noun] > complacent or deferential compliance1649 complacency1652 unthink1958 1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 2 Neither doe bad men hate Tirants, but have been alwaies readiest with the falsifi'd names of Loyalty and Obedience, to colour over their base compliances. 1659 O. Walker Περιαμμα Ἐπιδήμιον iii. §1. 38 Since Adam came into compliance with the Serpent. †5. A complaisant disposition; complaisance; = compliancy n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [noun] > compliancy correspondence1530 suppleness?1570 pliantness1578 appliableness1587 correspondency1587 flexibleness1623 complacence1626 complacency1651 complaisance1651 pliancy1663 compliance1667 compliableness1684 flexibility1703 complaisancy1710 compliancy1765 pliability1768 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > [noun] > obligingness or complaisance > as quality or disposition accommodation1632 compliance1667 accommodativeness1834 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 603 All her words and actions, mixt with Love And sweet compliance . View more context for this quotation 1674 M. Scrivener Course Divinity ii. vi. 393 A notable piece of modesty, condescension and complyance. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. x. 266 Jones, who in the Compliance of his Disposition..a little resembled his lovely Sophia, was easily prevailed on. View more context for this quotation 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles 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 v.¹ 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. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > [noun] > action in accordance with a desire or request pliance1607 appliancea1616 compliancy1643 comportance1648 compliance1649 obsequience1830 1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη (1824) 8 I am so farre from excusing..that complyance on My part (for plenary consent it was not) to his destruction. 1688 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 231 That his Complyance therewith is desired by The Goverr. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 34 [He] told him, ‘he expected more compliance from him’. 1711 Earl of Oxford in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. ii. IV. 267 The Queen's compliance to your desires. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvi. vi. 56 Nor shall you ever have her, unless she can be brought freely to compliance . View more context for this quotation 1788 Trifler No. 5. 62 An obsequious compliance to the will of a superior. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iv. §5. 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. ΚΠ 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. vi. v. sig. Nn7 In Matters indifferent, there is oft-times requir'd by Prudence, as much of Compliance as is allow'd by Innocence. 1703 J. Evelyn Let. 20 Jan. in S. Pepys Private Corr. (1926) II. 301 In the most servile complyances and basest offices. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 160. ⁋11 Few..can avoid disingenuous compliances. 1863 W. Phillips Speeches xxiii. 498 All politics necessitates questionable compliances. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire iv. 187 The compliances of society,..are not problems that he is fond of solving. 1874 J. Morley On Compromise 2 The aim of the present writer 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 n. 2b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > conformity > [noun] conformity1622 compliturea1624 compliance1699 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xx. 194 It was only a Compliance, and not a Submission to their Opinions, that made them observe days, and distinguish meats. 1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 21 Apr. He was suspected of Hypocrisy and of mean Complyance. 1716 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 143 We, in this Presbytery, have deposed several schoolmasters for their compliances during the Rebellion. 1856 J. A. Froude 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. ΚΠ 1685 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 55 In complyance with an Order of Councill Charles Ashcome appeared. 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §155 In compliance with established language and the use of the world. 1746 E. Haywood Female Spectator (1748) IV. 280 In compliance to the request made her by his lord. 1834 R. Whately in E. J. Whately Life & Corr. R. Whately (1866) I. 231 To profess or do anything they think wrong in compliance to me. 1852 Coleridge's Lives N. Worthies I. 33 In weak compliance to a popular clamour. 1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood xxxii In compliance with your wishes. 8. Mechanics. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > stress or force exerted and tending to deform > [noun] > alteration of form or dimensions caused by stress > property of yielding to stress compliance1934 the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > measure > [noun] > property of tissue measured by applied pressure compliance1955 1934 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 184/2 Compliance..the displacement in cm. corresponding to the application of the force of one dyne. 1950 Electronic Engin. 22 435 If voltage be taken to represent force, and current to represent velocity, inductance corresponds to inertia and capacitance to compliance. 1955 J. 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. 1955 J. H. Comroe et al. Lung vii. 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. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 245 Compliance is the acoustical and mechanical equivalent of capacitance. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 265 Styli with very high compliance can track at very low playing weights. 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