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complaisant, a.|ˈkɒmpleɪˌzɑːnt, -æ-, ˌkɒmpleɪˈzɑːnt, -æ-, now kəmˈpleɪzənt|
Also 7 complizant, compleasant, 8 complisant.
[17th c. a. F. complaisant (16th c. in Littré), pr. pple. of complaire to acquiesce in order to please:—L. complacēre to be very pleasing to: cf. complacent, complease. In 17th c. it was sometimes assimilated in form to complease, pleasant, with stress on 2nd syllable; but a general recognition of its French nativity has preserved the Fr. spelling, with the main stress (c 1891) varying between the 3rd and the 1st syllable. Walker c 1800 has (kɒmpliːˈzænt).]
1. Characterized by complaisance; disposed to please; obliging, politely agreeable, courteous. (Of persons, their actions, manners, etc.)
1647Cowley Mistr., Echo (1669) 40 Complaisant Nymph [Echo], who do'est thus kindly share In griefs, whose cause thou do'st not know! 1651Charleton Ephes. & Cimm. Matrons (1668) 22 The most affable, compleasant, and chearfull creature in the world. 1664Sir C. Lyttelton in Hatton Corr. (1878) 38 Feare not you will find mee as complizant. 1671Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Rehearsal (1714) 55 That's very complaisant..Mr. Bayes, to be of another Man's Opinion, before he knows what it is. a1720Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks. (1753) I. 14 Cautious the young, and complaisant the old. 1727Swift Gulliver ii. iv. 131 The girl was complaisant enough to make the bearers stop. 1871Smiles Charac. ix. (1876) 242 The French..of even the humblest classes, are..complaisant, cordial, and well-bred.
b. Disposed to comply with another's wishes; yielding, accommodating; compliant, facile.
1676G. Etherege Man of Mode iv. i, I am sorry my face does not please you as it is, But I shall not be complaisant and change it. 1678Rymer Trag. Last Age 69 Had [she] been formerly complaisant with him beyond discretion. 1839James Louis XIV, I. 246 Richelieu, not finding the clergy quite so complaisant as he could have desired.
†2. Of things: Pleasant, agreeable. Obs. rare.
1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 293 An honest benign Medicine, yet its not very complaisant to the Palate. |