Word Meanings - COMPLIABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.

Related words: (words related to COMPLIABLE)

• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• BENDER
  1. One who, or that which, bends. 2. An instrument used for bending. 3. A drunken spree. Bartlett. 4. A sixpence.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• COMPLIABLE
  Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.
• YIELDING
  Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. --
• RELIGION
  A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion. Trench. A good man was there of religion. Chaucer. 4. Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined
• COMPLIANT
  Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. "The compliant boughs." Milton.
• RELIGIONISM
  1. The practice of, or devotion to, religion. 2. Affectation or pretense of religion.
• YIELDER
  One who yields. Shak.
• BENDING
  The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. Chaucer.
• COMPLIANTLY
  In a compliant manner.
• BENDY
  Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge. Cussans.
• BENDABLE
  Capable of being bent.
• BENDLET
  A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• RELIGIONIZE
  To bring under the influence of religion. Mallock.
• CAPABLENESS
  The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.
• BENDWISE
  Diagonally.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• UNCAPABLE
  Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• CORRELIGIONIST
  A co-religion
• OVERBEND
  To bend to excess.
• OVERCAPABLE
  Too capable. Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker.
• HELLBENDER
  A large North American aquatic salamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog.
• PREBEND
  praebenda, from L. praebere to hold forth, afford, contr. fr. praehibere; prae before + habere to have, hold. See Habit, and cf. 1. A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral
• PREBENDARY
  1. A clergyman attached to a collegiate or cathedral church who enjoys a prebend in consideration of his officiating at stated times in the church. See Note under Benefice, n., 3. Hook. 2. A prebendaryship. Bailey.