Comply vs Enforce - What's the difference?
comply | enforce |
To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* (John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
* 1664? , , (Hudibras)
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(label) To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.
* 1599 , , II. ii. 371:
(label) To fulfill; to accomplish.
(label) To enfold; to embrace.
* (1591-1674)
(obsolete) To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.
(obsolete) To intensify, make stronger, add force to.
(obsolete, reflexive) To exert oneself, to try hard.
*, Bk.VII:
*:I pray you enforce youreselff at that justis that ye may be beste, for my love.
To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.
:The victim was able to enforce his evidence against the alleged perpetrator.
(archaic) To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force.
*, I.2.4.iv:
*:Uladislaus the Second, King of Poland, and Peter Dunnius, Earl of Shrinehad been hunting late, and were enforced to lodge in a poor cottage.
*1899 , E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross, Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.'', Great Uncle McCarthy :
*:In a few minutes I was stealthily groping my way down my own staircase, with a box of matches in my hand, enforced by scientific curiosity, but none the less armed with a stick.
To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
:The police are there to enforce the law.
(obsolete) To make or gain by force; to force.
:to enforce a passage
*Spenser
*:enforcing furious way
(obsolete) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
*Shakespeare
*:As swift as stones / Enforced from the old Assyrian slings.
(obsolete) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy.
:to enforce arguments or requests
*Burke
*:enforcing sentiment of the thrust humanity
(obsolete) To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
*Shakespeare
*:Enforce him with his envy to the people.
To prove; to evince.
:(Hooker)
As verbs the difference between comply and enforce
is that comply is to yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform while enforce is (obsolete|transitive) to strengthen (a castle, town etc) with extra troops, fortifications etc.comply
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply , / Scandalous or forbidden in our law.
- They did servilely comply with the people in worshiping God by sensible images.
- He that complies against his will / Is of his own opinion still.
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied .}}
- 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.
- (Chapman)
- Seemed to comply , / Cloudlike, the daintie deitie.
