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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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... Such a package should be based on cubic-measure and not on weight as is often advocated; for grapes cannot be shipped without some loss from sampling in transit; and there are also losses in weight by evaporation so that the grower, although trying to comply with the law, may become technically a law-breaker if the standard is ...
— Manual of American Grape-Growing • U. P. Hedrick
... the peradventure of a doubt, the brethren of Joseph had no choice but to comply with the steward's command and return to the city. They accompanied him without delay. Each of them loaded his ass himself, raising the burden with one hand from the ground to the back of the beast, and then they retraced their steps cityward,[258] and as they walked, they rapped Benjamin roughly ...
— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg
... decided, then, not to comply with my request—a request made according to common ...
— The Piazza Tales • Herman Melville
... who should have power to give redress to such of them as should be injured, and plead the cause of the community. 11. The people, who are generally of opinion with the last speaker,[4] highly applauded this proposal, with which, however, the commissioners had not power to comply; they, therefore, sent to Rome to take the instructions of the senate, who, distracted with divisions among themselves, and harassed by complaints from without, were resolved to have peace, at whatever price it should be obtained; accordingly, as ...
— Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome • Oliver Goldsmith
... Kaiser too, who loved his Duchies, and hoped yet to keep them by some turn of the game, never could decide to comply. Whereupon Elizabeth grew more and more termagant; listened to wild counsels; took up an Alberoni, a Ripperda, any wandering diplomatic bull-dog that offered; and let them loose upon the Kaiser and her other gainsayers. To the terror of mankind, lest universal war should supervene. She held ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Volume V. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle


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