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.

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=6, title= 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 .}}

*

(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.

Verb

To establish the identity of someone or something.

*

(biology) To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.

*

To equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one.

* D. Ramsay

Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people and of the rulers.

* Burke

Let us identify , let us incorporate ourselves with the people.

(reflexive) To have a strong affinity (with); to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.

* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 117:

The dream is given a new interpretation if in her dream she means not herself but her friend, if she has put herself in the place of her friend, or, as we may say, she has identified herself with her.

To associate oneself with some group.

*

To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.

* {{quote-magazine

, year=2010 , author= , title=Youth Who Self-Identify as Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual at Higher Suicide Risk, Say Researchers , date=Feb. 6, 2010 , magazine=Science Daily citation , passage="The main message is that it's the interface between individuals and society that causes students who identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual the most distress," said study first author Yue Zhao. }}