Definition of Complies

1. Verb. (third-person singular of comply) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Complies

1. comply [v] - See also: comply

Lexicographical Neighbors of Complies

complicates
complicating
complication
complications
complice
complices
complicit
complicities
complicitous
complicitousness
complicity
complied
complier
compliers
complies (current term)
compliment
complimental
complimentally
complimentarily
complimentariness
complimentary
complimentative
complimented
complimenter
complimenters
complimenting
compliments
complin
compline

Literary usage of Complies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1902)
"Bagehot's greatest merit is that he perceives and complies with this necessary condition of useful inquiry. He illustrates a maxim which he is fond of ..."

2. Men and Measures of Half a Century: Sketches and Commments by Hugh McCulloch (1900)
"... Means—Appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain—Performs his Duties with Great Ability—flis Connection with a Mining Company—complies with the ..."

3. Life of Jonathan Trumbull, Sen., Governor of Connecticut by Isaac William Stuart (1859)
"He receives from Massachusetts an urgent demand for more troops—"with which he complies. Hia connections "with the expedition to Ticonderoga and Crown Point ..."

4. A History of the One Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment, N. Y. Volunteers by James A. Mowris (1866)
"Curtis reluctantly complies with the fourth order to retire, when 1st Brigade returns to the place of Debarkation.—A gloomy night for the command. ..."

5. Civil Procedure Reports: Containing Cases Under the Code of Civil Procedure by New York (State), Henry Huffman Browne, Courts, Rufus Leonard Scott, James Manford Kerr, Percival Soloman Menken (1896)
"Power of Court to extend time to answer until non-resident plaintiff complies teith order for his examination—order binding while in force, ..."

6. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1900)
"... but otherwise complies with the statute, and no objection is made for want of verification, the petition must be dismissed.2 Decree Directing Payment. ..."

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