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Conform

Con-fôrm', a.

adjective

a. [Lat. conformis, from con and forma, form; Fr. & It. conforme.] Made to resemble; assuming the same form; like; resembling; similar. [Obs.] Bacon.

Con-fōrm', v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. CONFORMED; p. pr. & vb. n. CONFORMING.] [Lat. conformare, from con and formare, to form, from forma, form; Fr. conformer; Fr. & Sp. conformar, It. conformare.] To shape in accordance with; to make like; to reduce to a likeness or correspondence in character, form, manners, &c.; to bring into harmony or agreement with; — with to or unto.

Demand of them wherefore they conform not themselves unto the order of the church. Hooker.

Our purer essence, . . . to the place conformed In temper and in nature, will receive Familiar the fierce beat and void of pain. Milton.

Con-fôrm', v. i.

verbintransitive

Sense 1. To conduct in accordance with; to comply with; to yield to; to obey; — with to, or sometimes with.

A rule to which experience must conform. Whewell.

Sense 2. (Eng. Eccl. Hist.) To comply with the usages of the established church; to be a conformist.

About two thousand ministers of religion, whose conscience did not suffer them to conform, were driven from their benefices in one day. Macaulay.