a. Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. [ 1913 Webster ]
Another compliable mind. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accommodated to their passions. Jortin. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Comply. ]
What compliances will remove dissension? Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
Ready compliance with the wishes of his people. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
A man of few words and of great compliance. Clarendon.
n. Compliance; disposition to yield to others. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. “The compliant boughs.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a compliant manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A state of being complicate or intricate. Mitford. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. complicans, p. pr. ] (Zool.) Overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Nor can his complicated sinews fail. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]
Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
When the disease is complicated with other diseases. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. complicatus, p. p. of complicare to fold together. See Complex. ]
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,
How complicate, how wonderful is man! Young. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a complex manner. [ 1913 Webster ]