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ndicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility. These [ladies] . . . are by the just complaisance and gallantry of our nation the most powerful part of our people. Addison. They strive with their own hearts and keep them down, In complaisance to all the fools in town. Young.

A disposition to yield to others; complaisance. A man of few words and of great compliance. Clarendon.

from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance. Deference to the authority of thoughtful and sagacious men. Whewell. Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. Shenstone.

animate; to encourage; to cheer. It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance. Barrow.

Easiness of access; complaisance; affability. Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility. South.

Courtesy; civility; complaisance. [Obs.] To show us so much gentry and good will. Shak.

The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.

he quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions.

aughed at; amusing. "Risible absurdities." Johnson. I hope you find nothing risible in my complaisance. Sir W. Scott.

To smile in an affected or conceited manner; to smile with affected complaisance; to simper.

on. South. Without care it may be used to vitiate our minds. Burke. This undistinguishing complaisance will vitiate the taste of readers. Garth.