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SUP'PLE, a.

1. Pliant flexible easily bent as supple joints supple fingers.
2. Yielding compliant not obstinate.

If punishment--makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

3. Bending to the humor of others flattering fawning.
4. That makes plaint as supple government.

SUP'PLE, To make soft and pliant to render flexible as, to supple leather.

1. To make compliant.

A mother persisting till she had suppled the will of her daughter.

SUP'PLE, To become soft and pliant as stones suppled into softness.

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Entry for 'Supple'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​s/supple.html.
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