Accommodate

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.