Defn: Flax. [Obs.] Chaucer.
FLEXANIMOUS Flex*an"i*mous, a. Etym: [L. flexanimus; flectere, flexum, to bend + animus mind.]
Defn: Having power to change the mind. [Obs.] Howell.
FLEXIBILITY
Flex`i*bil"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. flexibilitas: cf. F. flexibilite.]
Defn: The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light. Sir I. Newton. All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. Macaulay.
FLEXIBLE
Flex"i*ble, a. Etym: [L. flexibilis: cf. F. flexible.]
1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak.
2. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering. Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people. Bacon. Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. Shak.
3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language. This was a principle more flexible to their purpose. Rogers.
Syn.
— Pliant; pliable; supple; tractable; manageable; ductile;
obsequious; inconstant; wavering.
— Flex"i*ble*ness, n.
— Flex"i*bly, adv.