a. [f. COMPLY v. + -ABLE.]
1. Apt or inclined to comply; disposed to agree and act in accord; compliant. ? Obs.
a. 1635. Naunton, Fragm. Reg. (Arb.), 24. How compliable soever and obsequious she found them.
1643. Milton, Divorce, II. xvi. Not the joining of another body will remove loneliness, but the uniting of another compliable mind.
1657. Reeve, God’s Plea, 42. Make him vary, or put a plyable, compliable Tongue into his mouth.
1762. trans. Busching’s Syst. Geog., II. 113. His place supplied by one of a more compliable disposition.
1803. Pic Nic, No. 3. I. 97. In as good and compliable a state as I ever remember them.
† 2. Accordable, reconcilable, accordant. Obs.
1642. Milton, Apol. Smect., xi. (1847), 94/1. If this were all, perhaps it were a compliable matter.
1667. H. More, Div. Dial., I. § 30 (1713), 66. Any thing that is compliable with the Dictates of the noble Des-Cartes.
1746. Jortin, Chr. Relig., i. (R.). The Jews, by their own interpretations, had made their religion compliable and accommodated to their passions.
Hence Compliableness, Compliably adv.
1684. H. More, An Answer, 208. Its suppleness and compliableness to cleave to that which is stronger.
