Verb

(achiev)

To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.

To carry out successfully; to accomplish.

* I. Taylor

Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it.

(obsolete) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.1:

Full many Countreyes they did overronne, / From the uprising to the setting Sunne, / And many hard adventures did atchieve [...].

To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.

*

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* (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night), II-v

Some are born great, some achieve greatness.

*

Thou hast achieved our liberty.

(obsolete) To conclude, to turn out.

* Prior

Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved .

* (William Shakespeare), (Othello), II-i

He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description.

Verb

(en-verb)

To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply , / Scandalous or forbidden in our law.

* (John Tillotson) (1630-1694)

They did servilely comply with the people in worshiping God by sensible images.

* 1664? , , (Hudibras)

He that complies against his will / Is of his own opinion still.

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*

(label) To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.

* 1599 , , II. ii. 371:

Let me comply with you in this / garb, lest my extent to the players, which I tell you must / show fairly outwards, should more appear like entertainment / than yours.

(label) To fulfill; to accomplish.

(Chapman)

(label) To enfold; to embrace.

* (1591-1674)

Seemed to comply , / Cloudlike, the daintie deitie.