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Webster 1913 Edition
Amenable
A-me′na-ble
,Adj.
[F.
amener
to lead; [GREEK] (L. ad
) = mener
to lead, fr. L. minare
to drive animals (properly by threatening cries), in LL. to lead; L. minari
, to threaten, minae
threats. See Menace
.] 1.
(Old Law)
Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband.
[Obs.]
Jacob.
2.
Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable;
as,
. amenable
to lawNor is man too diminutive . . . to be
amenable
to the divine government. I. Taylor.
3.
Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc.
4.
Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable.
Sterling . . . always was
amenable
enough to counsel. Carlyle.
Webster 1828 Edition
Amenable
AME'NABLE
,Adj.
1.
In old law, easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. [This sense is obsolete.]2.
Liable to answer; responsible; answerable; liable to be called to account; as, every man is amenable to the laws.We retain this idiom in the popular phrase, to bring in, to make answerable; as a man is brought in to pay the debt of another.