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amenable(dictionary)
amenable(dictionary)
AMENABLE(law)

amenable (iou)



amenable adjective. Also (earlier) amesnable. L16.
[Presumably legal Anglo-Norman, from Old French amener bring to, from a AD- + mener bring, lead from popular Latin minare drive (animals) for Latin minari threaten: see MENACE noun, -ABLE.]
Foll. by to or absol.
Of a person: liable to answer (to a law, tribunal, etc., or fig.); responsible, liable, subject, (to). L16.
Spenser Not amesnable to Law. Coleridge The sufficiency of the conscience to make every person a moral and amenable being. E. Mellor The next witness..is amenable to the same imputation. Joyce Amenable under section two of the Criminal Law Amendment Act.
Of a thing (foll. by to): liable to the legal authority of; gen. subject or liable to. M18.
James Mill All offences against the act were rendered amenable to the courts of law. Dickens Your property..being amenable to all claims upon the company.
Disposed to respond or submit (to); responsive, susceptible, (to); tractable. E19.
Conan Doyle She is quite amenable to her father's will. A. J. P. Taylor Churchill determined to restore confidence by changing the leaders. Maybe he hoped, too, to get more amenable ones. C. Sagan The hypothesis..is amenable to experimental testing. D. Storey You're young, you're flexible, you're amenable to new ideas.
amena'bility noun the quality of being amenable (to) L18.
amenableness noun the quality or state of being amenable (to) M19.
amenably adverb M19.