Found 3 hits - Term: complying, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
complying \complying\ adj.
pr. p. of comply. narrower terms: compliant vs.
defiant
syn: obliging, yielding.
wordnet 1.5
see also:
comply compliant vs. defiant
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
comply \comply"\ ko^mplimac", v. i. imp. p. p.
complied; p. pr. vb. n. complying. perh. formed fr.
compliment, influenced by ply, pliant, which are of different
origin: cf. it. complire to compliment, finish, suit. see
compliment, complete.
1. to yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt
one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by
with.
1913 webster
yet this be sure, in nothing to comply,
scandalous or forbidden in our law. --milton.
1913 webster
they did servilely comply with the people in
worshiping god by sensible images. --tillotson.
1913 webster
he that complies against his will
is of his own opinion still. --hudibras.
1913 webster
2. to be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.
obs. --shak.
1913 webster
see also:
complied complying compliment complete
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
complying
adj : happy to comply syn: obliging, yielding
see also:
obliging yielding
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