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Webster 1913 Edition
Accommodate
Ac-com′mo-date
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Accommodated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Accommodating
.] [L.
accommodatus
, p. p. of accommodare
; ad
+ commodare
to make fit, help; con-
+ modus
measure, proportion. See Mode
.] 1.
To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform;
“They accommodate their counsels to his inclination.” as, to
. accommodate
ourselves to circumstancesAddison.
2.
To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle;
as, to
accommodate
differences, a dispute, etc.3.
To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige;
as, to
. accommodate
a friend with a loan or with lodgings4.
To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.;
as, to
. accommodate
prophecy to events
Syn. – To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.
Ac-com′mo-date
,Verb.
I.
To adapt one’s self; to be conformable or adapted.
[R.]
Boyle.
Ac-com′mo-date
,Adj.
[L.
accommodatus
, p. p. of accommodare
.] Suitable; fit; adapted;
as, means
. accommodate
to end[Archaic]
Tillotson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Accommodate
ACCOM'MODATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To fit, adapt, or make suitable; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances; to accommodate the choice of subjects to the occasions.2.
To supply with or furnish; followed by with; as, to accommodate a man with apartments.3.
To supply with conveniences, as to accommodate a friend.4.
To reconcile things which are at variance; to adjust; as to accommodate differences.5.
To show fitness or agreement; to apply; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.6.
To lend - a commercial sense.In an intransitive sense, to agree, to be conformable to, as used by Boyle.
ACCOM'MODATE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
accommodate
accommodate
English
Verb
accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodating, simple past and past participle accommodated)
- (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
- They accommodate their counsels to his inclination. -Joseph Addison
- (transitive) To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
- (transitive) To provide housing for; to furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
- (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige;
- (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
- (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
- (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
- (intransitive, rare) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (obsolete) discommodate
Translations
to render fit or suitable
|
to bring into agreement
to provide housing for
to furnish with something desired
to adapt to fit
to adapt one's self
|
Adjective
accommodate (comparative more accommodate, superlative most accommodate)
- (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
- John Tillotson
- God did not primarily intend to appoint this way of worship, and to impose it upon them as that which was most proper and agreeable to him; but that he condescended to it as most accommodate to their present state and inclination.
- John Tillotson
Latin
Adverb
accommodātē (comparable accommodātius, superlative accommodātissimē)
Related terms
- accommodātiō
- accommodātus
- accommodō
- accommodus
References
- accommodate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- accommodate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “accommodate”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be a persuasive speaker: accommodate ad persuadendum dicere
- to be a persuasive speaker: accommodate ad persuadendum dicere