Word Meanings - INCOMPLIANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not compliant; unyielding to request, solicitation, or command; stubborn. -- In`com*pli"ant*ly, adv.

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• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• COMMANDATORY
  Mandatory; as, commandatory authority.
• COMMANDO
  In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers. The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. James Bryce.
• COMPLIANT
  Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. "The compliant boughs." Milton.
• COMMANDEER
  To compel to perform military service; to seize for military purposes; -- orig. used of the Boers. 2. To take arbitrary or forcible possession of.
• COMMANDMENT
  One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. 3. The act of commanding; exercise of authority. And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. Shak. (more info) 1. An order or injunction given
• COMMANDINGLY
  In a commanding manner.
• COMPLIANTLY
  In a compliant manner.
• COMMANDABLE
  Capable of being commanded.
• COMMANDRY
  See COMMANDERY
• SOLICITATION
  1. The act of soliciting; earnest request; persistent asking; importunity. 2. Excitement; invitation; as, the solicitation of the senses. Locke.
• COMMANDER
  An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army. 3. The chief officer of a commandery. 4. A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc. Commander in chief, the military title of
• REQUEST
  LL. requesta, for requisita, fr. L. requirere, requisitum, to seek 1. The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty. I will marry her, sir, at your request. Shak. 2. That which
• STUBBORN
  Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn
• REQUESTER
  One who requests; a petitioner.
• COMMANDRESS
  A woman invested with authority to command. Hooker.
• COMMANDERY
  1. The office or rank of a commander. 2. A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory. 3. An assembly or lodge
• COMMAND
  commander, fr. L. com- + mandare to commit to, to command. Cf. 1. To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge. We are commanded to forgive our enemies, but you never read that we are commanded to forgive
• COMMANDANT
  A commander; the commanding officer of a place, or of a body of men; as, the commandant of a navy-yard.
• COMMANDERSHIP
  The office of a commander.
• INCOMPLIANT
  Not compliant; unyielding to request, solicitation, or command; stubborn. -- In`com*pli"ant*ly, adv.