AMENABLE

a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. [Obs.] Jacob.

2.
a.

Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. I. Taylor.

3.
a.

Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc.

4.
a.

Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable. Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel. Carlyle.

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