yielding (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. cessio (surrendering, a legal term)2. concessio • yielding (subs.): 1. cessio (surrendering, a legal term): a y. in point of right, in jure c., Cic. Top. 5, 28. 2. concessio: by our y. they have lost all the force of their right, nostra concessione omnem vim sui juris amiserunt, Cic. Att. 3, 24, 1. Generally the subs. yielding would be expressed by a phrase with verb: our y. proves our cause weak, *quod cedimus causam arguit infirmam.
yielding (adj.) Copy link Outline I. Of personsII. Of things soft, flexible • yielding (adj.): I. Of persons: obsĕquens, obsĕquiōsus, făcĭlis: v. complaisant. II. Of things soft, flexible: mollis: y. water, mollis aqua, Ov. A. A. 1, 476: v. soft, pliant.
YIELDING Copy link • YIELDING 1. s. by circumlocution. Our yielding at all proves at once, etc., demonstrat id ipsum, quod cedimus (e.g., eos graves [esse] intolerabiles, Quint., 6, 2, 16). 2. obsequens; obsequiosus; facilis; indulgens. SYN. in COMPLAISANT.