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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Comply

Com·ply′ (kŏm·plī′), 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.

Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply, Scandalous or forbidden in our law. Milton.

They did servilely comply with the people in worshiping God by sensible images. Tillotson.

He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still. Hudibras.

2. To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments. [Obs.] Shak.

Com·ply′, v. t. [See comply, v. i.] 1. To fulfill; to accomplish. [Obs.] Chapman.

2. [Cf. L. complicare to fold up. See Ply.] To infold; to embrace. [Obs.]

Seemed to comply, Cloudlike, the daintie deitie. Herrick.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.