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Accommodate

Ae-cŏm’mo-dāte, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. ACCOMMODATED; p. pr. & vb. n. ACCOMMODATING.] [Lat. accommodare, to adapt, fit, from ad and commodare, to make fit, to help; com, cum, with, and modus, measure, proportion; Fr. accommoder.]

  1. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
  2. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
  3. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; as, to accommodate differences.
  4. To show to be coincident, correspondent or analogous; to apply by way of analogy; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.

Syn.—To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; reconcile; serve; oblige; assist; aid.

Ae-cōm'mo-dāte, v. i.

verbintransitive

To be conformable or adapted. [Rare.] Boyle.

Ac-cŏm'mo-date, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. accommodātus, p. p. of accommodāre.] Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to the end. Tillotson.