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COMPLY , verb intransitive

1. To comply with, to fulfil; to perfect or carry into effect; to complete; to perform or execute; as, to comply with a promise, with an award, with a command, with an order. So to comply with ones expectations or wishes, is to fulfil them, or complete them.

2. To yield to; to be obsequious; to accord; to suit; followed by with; as, to comply with a mans humor.

The truth of things will not comply with or conceits.