comply

[com·ply]

Comply is to act according to someone's wishes or rules. Although you might like to stay out with your friends, you'll have to comply with your parents' rules and be home by midnight.

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To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with.

Verb
act in accordance with someone''s rules, commands, or wishes; "He complied with my instructions"; "You must comply or else!"; "Follow these simple rules"; "abide by the rules"


v. i.
To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with.

v. i.
To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.

v. i.
To fulfill; to accomplish.

v. i.
To infold; to embrace.


Comply

Com*ply" , 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.
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.] Shak.

Comply

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.

To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with.

To fulfill; to accomplish.

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