accommodate
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin accomodātus, perfect passive participle of accomodō; ad + commodō (“‘make fit, help’”); com + modus (“‘measure, proportion’”). See mode.
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to accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodating, simple past and past participle accommodated)
- (transitive) 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 furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
- (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.
- (intransitive) (rare) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. - Boyle
[edit] Synonyms
- To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.
[edit] Antonyms
- (obsolete) discommodate
[edit] Translations
- Bulgarian: приспособявам
- French: accommoder
- Russian: приспособиться
[edit] Adjective
accommodate
- (archaic) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. - John Tillotson
[edit] External links
- accommodate at OneLook® Dictionary Search
- accommodate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
[edit] Latin
[edit] Adverb
accommodātē (comparative accommodātius, superlative accommodātissimē)
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- “accommodate” in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press)
