amenable : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: amenable	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
amenable adj disposed or willing to comply; "someone amenable to persuasion" Synonym(s): amenable, conformable readily reacting to suggestions and influences; "a responsive student" Synonym(s): amenable, tractable open to being acted upon in a certain way; "an amenable hospitalization should not result in untimely death"; "the tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment" liable to answer to a higher authority; "the president is amenable to the constitutional court"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Amenable \Ame"nable\, a. [F. amener to lead; [?] (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 law. Nor 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.