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Definition of Amenable
1. Adjective. Disposed or willing to comply. "Someone amenable to persuasion"
2. Adjective. Readily reacting to suggestions and influences. "A responsive student"
Similar to: Susceptible
Derivative terms: Amenability, Amenableness, Tractability, Tractableness
3. Adjective. Open to being acted upon in a certain way. "The tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment"
4. Adjective. Liable to answer to a higher authority. "The president is amenable to the constitutional court"
Definition of Amenable
1. a. Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband.
Definition of Amenable
1. Adjective. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions. ¹
2. Adjective. Willing to comply with; agreeable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amenable
1. capable of being persuaded [adj] : AMENABLY [adv]
Medical Definition of Amenable
1. 1. Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. 2. Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. "Nor is man too diminutive . . . To be amenable to the divine government." (I. Taylor) 3. Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc. 4. Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable. "Sterling . . . Always was amenable enough to counsel." (Carlyle) Origin: F. Amener to lead; (L. Ad) = mener to lead, fr. L. Minare to drive animals (properly by threatening cries), in LL. To lead; L. Minari, to threaten, minae threats. See Menace. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amenable
Literary usage of Amenable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Constitutional Law of the United States by Westel Woodbury Willoughby (1910)
"Head of Executive Department Acting for the President; When amenable to Writ.
... is not amenable to the authority of the courts; but that, ..."
2. Remarks on the Constitution and Practice of Courts Martial: With a Summary by Thomas Frederick Simmons (1863)
"... and consequently amenable, it might be inferred, to military law. This appears
by the orders which promulgated the court martial on Lieutenant John ..."
3. Pleading and Practice of the High Court of Chancery by Edmund Robert Daniell, Thomas Emerson Headlam, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1846)
"It may also be observed, that by the 40th Order of August, Practice where 1841,
the Court is expressly authorized, when a suit is defective amenable" V for ..."
4. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1917)
"guardian, still it makes him a soldier, and he is amenable to the military law
just as a citizen who is a minor is amenable to the civil law. ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"... foreign countries, rests on the clear authority vested in courts of equity
over persons within the limits of their jurisdiction and amenable to process, ..."
6. Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of the Commonwealth of by Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, John Agg, Pennsylvania (1838)
"He is amenable to the law, and he is therefore, in this respect, placed on the same
... And what is that you wish to make him amenable to? The will of man. ..."
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