Verb

(indulg)

: To yield to a temptation or desire.

He looked at the chocolate but didn't indulge .

I indulged in drinking on the weekend.

To satisfy the wishes or whims of.

Grandma indulges the kids with sweets.

I love to indulge myself with beautiful clothes.

* Atterbury

Hope in another life implies that we indulge ourselves in the gratifications of this very sparingly.

To give way to (a habit or temptation); not to oppose or restrain.

to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations

To grant an extension to the deadline of a payment.

To grant as by favour; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.

* Jeremy Taylor

persuading us that something must be indulged to public manners

* Alexander Pope

Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light / Indulge , dread Chaos, and eternal Night!

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.