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conformable

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con·form·a·ble  (kn-fôrm-bl)
adj.
1. Corresponding; similar: plans that are conformable to your wishes.
2. Quick to comply; submissive.
3. Geology Of, relating to, or being strata that are parallel to each other without interruption.
con·forma·bili·ty, con·forma·ble·ness n.
con·forma·bly adv.
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Adj.1.conformable - quick to comply; "I have been to you a true and humble wife, at all times to your will conformable"-Shakespeare
obedient - dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority; "an obedient soldier"; "obedient children"; "a little man obedient to his wife"; "the obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke
2.conformable - disposed or willing to comply; "someone amenable to persuasion"
amenable
compliant - disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the parental will"
3.conformableconformable - in keeping; "salaries agreeable with current trends"; "plans conformable with your wishes"; "expressed views concordant with his background"
concordant, consonant, accordant, agreeable
consistent - (sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent or reliable; "testimony consistent with the known facts"; "I have decided that the course of conduct which I am following is consistent with my sense of responsibility as president in time of war"- FDR
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Physicians are, some of them, so pleasing and conformable to the humor of the patient, as they press not the true cure of the disease; and some other are so regular, in proceeding according to art for the disease, as they respect not sufficiently the condition of the patient.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
On comparing the Constitution planned by the convention with the standard here fixed, we perceive at once that it is, in the most rigid sense, conformable to it.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison by Madison, James View in context
If we do NOT know them all--if Nature has still secrets in the deeps for us, nothing is more conformable to reason than to admit the existence of fishes, or cetaceans of other kinds, or even of new species, of an organisation formed to inhabit the strata inaccessible to soundings, and which an accident of some sort has brought at long intervals to the upper level of the ocean.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
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