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Comply   /kəmplˈaɪ/   Listen
verb
Comply  v. t.  
1.
To fulfill; to accomplish. (Obs.)
2.
To infold; to embrace. (Obs.) "Seemed to comply, Cloudlike, the daintie deitie."


Comply  v. i.  (past & past part. complied; pres. part. complying)  
1.
To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; usually followed by with. "Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply, Scandalous or forbidden in our law." "They did servilely comply with the people in worshiping God by sensible images." "He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still."
2.
To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments. (Obs.)





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"Comply" Quotes from Famous Books



... it. The truth is, I am almost as willing to have the gout as to be liable to catch cold; and must run up stairs and down, in and out of doors, when I will, or I cannot have the least satisfaction. This will convince you how readily I comply with another of your precepts, walking as soon as am able.—For receipts, you may trust me for making use of none; I would not see a physician at the worst, but have quacked as boldly as quacks ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
... having the same binding force as if agreed to by the parties themselves. Further, that they and each of them will, if required, sign such individual arbitration agreement as to make said arbitration comply with a legal arbitration under the laws of the State of New York, and the rules of the Supreme Court thereof, and that judgment upon the award may be entered in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. The ...
— The Art of Stage Dancing - The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession • Ned Wayburn
... I expended the most elaborate pains on my toilet that afternoon, before waiting upon Mrs Clyde in accordance with my promise to Min. I did not otherwise comply fully with the essential requirements of Madame la Comtesse de Bassanville's Code Complet du Ceremonial—such as causing an influential friend, who could speak of my morals and position, to have a previous audience ...
— She and I, Volume 2 - A Love Story. A Life History. • John Conroy Hutcheson
... either in war or in single combat. This, then, was the reason of the dying injunction of the commander respecting his sword. I carried this weapon with me, wherever I went, but still I neglected to comply ...
— Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies • Washington Irving
... are afraid of each other. They are afraid the richer slaves, who are able to comply with the demands will laugh at them and ridicule them, and that is why they strain every nerve to follow the god's wishes. A slave, whether she is rich or poor, grows more cringing year by year, until at last she ...
— Dickey Downy - The Autobiography of a Bird • Virginia Sharpe Patterson


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