Word Meanings - COMPLIANCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Compliance; disposition to yield to others. Goldsmith.

Related words: (words related to COMPLIANCY)

• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• YIELDING
  Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. --
• COMPLIANCE
  1. The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission. What compliances will remove dissension Swift. Ready compliance with the wishes of his people. Macaulay. 2. A disposition to yield to others;
• YIELDER
  One who yields. Shak.
• YIELDLESS
  Without yielding; unyielding.
• DISPOSITIONAL
  Pertaining to disposition.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• DISPOSITION
  1. The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will. Who have received the law by the disposition of angels. Acts vii. 53. The disposition of the work,
• DISPOSITIONED
  Having a disposition; -- used in compounds; as, well- dispositioned.
• GOLDSMITH
  1. An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments, etc., of gold. 2. A banker. Note: The goldsmiths of London formerly received money on deposit because they were prepared to keep it safely. Goldsmith beetle , a large, bright yellow, American
• NONCOMPLIANCE
  Neglect of compliance; failure to comply.
• INCOMPLIANCE
  1. The quality or state of being incompliant; unyielding temper; obstinacy. Self-conceit produces peevishness and incompliance of humor in things lawful and indifferent. Tillotson. 2. Refusal or failure to comply. Strype.
• INDISPOSITION
  1. The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine. A general indisposition towards believing. Atterbury. 2. A slight disorder or illness. Rather as an indisposition in health than as
• PREDISPOSITION
  1. The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger. 2. Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression,
• DISCOMPLIANCE
  Failure or refusal to comply; noncompliance. A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance to my lord chancellor. Pepys.
• BOTHERSOME
  Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.
• MISDISPOSITION
  Erroneous disposal or application. Bp. Hall.