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▪ I. † aˈccommodate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. accommodāt-us suited, suitable, pa. pple. of accommodā-re, f. ac- = ad- to + commodāre to suit; f. commod-us suitable in measure, fitting; f. com- = cum together with + modus measure, manner.]
Suited, adapted, fitted; hence suitable, fitting, fit.
1525Wolsey in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. 95 Loving and kind words..meet and accommodate for the company present. 1531Elyot Governor i. x. 26 (1557) Moste accommodate to the aduancemente of some vertue. 1627Speed Irel. descr. & abridged iv. §4 Many accomodate and fit Bayes, Creekes, and nauigable Riuers. 1680H. More Apocalypsis Pref. 15 Grotius..is now accounted the Chiefest Interpreter, and most accomodate to baffle the true and genuine meaning of those Prophecies. 1765Harris Three Treat. iii. i. 122 The Sovereign Good ought to be something..accommodate to all Places and Times. 1796Pegge Anonym. (1809) 186 Applications of passages in the Classics, when they are perfectly accommodate, always give pleasure.
▪ II. accommodate, v.|əˈkɒmədeɪt|
[f. prec. or on anal. of vbs. so formed. See -ate3.]
To fit or suit.
I. To fit one thing or person to another.
†1. To apply fittingly (a thing to a person); to attribute or ascribe, by way of explanation, or from inherent fitness. Obs.
1531Elyot Governor (1834) 174 This sentence is..supposed to have been first spoken by Chilo. Others do accommodate it to Apollo. 1676J. Owen Wor. God 133 Many names..are equally accommodated unto all that are partakers of it, as Elders, Bishops.
2. a. To adapt, fit, suit, or adjust (one thing or person to another) either actually or in idea.
1588Whitehorne Machiauels Arte of Warre 104 b, [He] must accommodate himselfe with the situation. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. ix. 335 The Political Institutions of Moses were accommodated to the circumstances of Affairs. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 210 Accomodate himself to the men on board. 1831Scott Peveril iv. 60 I would fain accommodate myself to your scruples. 1856Brewster Mart. of Sc. iii. ii. (ed. 3) 184 Kepler likewise observed the power of accommodating the eye to different distances.
b. spec. in Philol.
1933O.E.D. Suppl., Shin.., accommodated pronunciation of sinh. 1939R. W. Chapman Adjs. fr. Proper Names 59 Persien or Percien is in English of the fourteenth century. This in the sixteenth century was accommodated to the regular -ian. 1962E. S. Olszewska in Davis & Wrenn Eng. & Medieval Stud. 120 The alliterative formula is borrowed from a Norse coupling of the two synonyms..with the second noun accommodated in form to the native cognate.
†3. intr. (by omission of refl. pron.) To adapt oneself to. Obs.
1597Bacon Coulers of Good & Evill x. 153 Keepe the minde in suspence from settling and accomodating in patience and resolution. 1677Governm. Venice 72 Cato..knew not how to accommodate to the propensity of the age.
4. To show the adaptation or correspondence of one thing to another; to make a statement fit with facts or vice versâ; to make consistent, to harmonize; to adapt by analogy, or by ‘humouring’ an account or statement. (Often used in the sense of producing an artificial or surface harmony.) Const. to, (with, unto obs.).
1603Holland Plutarch's Morals 17 Ponder well the intention of Poëts, unto which they addresse & accommodate their verses. 1655–60T. Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 75 To accommodate this time with our account is neither easie nor certain. 1760Jortin Life of Erasmus II. 226 Erasmus suspected that this MS. had been accommodated by the Transcriber to the Latin Version. 1860Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey ix. 93 The words..were not accommodated to Christ, but were most truly fulfilled in Him.
II. To fit things (sc. to each other).
5. To adjust, reconcile (things or persons that differ), and hence, to compose, settle (their difference); to bring to harmony or agreement.
1597Daniel Civile Wares viii. lxv. Repaire to us, who will accomodate this businesse. 1677Governm. Venice 53 The Senat found some way or other of interposing, under colour of accommodating their Quarrel. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Galenist, At present, the Galenists and chemists are pretty well accommodated. 1786T. Jefferson Writings (1859) I. 562 It is uncertain how far we should have been able to accommodate our opinions. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 667 At length the dispute had been accommodated.
6. Hence (with obj. indefinitely represented by it), to accommodate it: to settle or compromise matters.
1667Pepys Diary 30 Nov. The King will accommodate it by committing my Lord Clarendon himself.
7. intr. (by entire suppression of object) To settle differences, to come to terms.
1648Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 12 Either they must accommodate with His Majesty, or resolve to despatch with monarchy. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) IV. 60 I hardly expect that we can accommodate. 1801T. Freemantle in Dk. of Buckingham Crt. George III, III. 154/2 I hope we shall accommodate with the Danes.
† III. To fit a thing (sc. for its proper uses). Obs.
†8. To fit or equip (a thing for use); to put in order; hence, to repair, refit, mend. (Fr. raccommoder.) Obs.
1624Capt. Smith Virginia (1629) 61 The rest of the day we spent in accommodating our boat. 1763–5Smollett Trav. 311 One of the irons of the coach gave way..we were detained two hours before it could be accommodated. 1812Henry Camp. agst. Quebec 143 We found it well accommodated for our lodgment.
†9. To fit (a person, for any duty or position); to meeten. Obs.
1658Sir H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 211 You shall every day get by heart some new lesson, that may season and accommodate you.
†10. To minister convenience to; to aid, speed, facilitate. Obs.
1634Massinger Very Woman iv. ii. One o' the slaves he lately bought..To accommodate his cure. 1690Locke Hum. Underst. (1727) I. ii. xxiii. §12. 129 We are able..several ways to accommodate the Exigencies of this Life. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1732) 36 To accomodate the passage you have a path.
IV. To fit (a person with the understood requisites of the occasion).
11. To furnish (a person with (of obs.) something requisite or convenient); to equip, supply, provide. Now usually with the sense of doing it to suit a person's felt requirements. (An obs. and rare const. is to accommodate a thing to a person.)
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 72 A Souldier is better accommodated, then with a Wife. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. (1616) i. x. 17 Hostesse, accommodate vs with another bed-staffe. ― Poetaster iii. 4 (Nares) Will you present and accomodate it to the gentleman. 1627Lisander & Calista iii. 43 To goe unto Paris to accommodate him there of such things as were most necessary. 1672Jordan Lond. Triumph. in Heath Grocers' Comp. (1869) 489 Three score and six poor men, pensioners, accommodated with Gowns and Caps. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 269 We had wax candles brought in to accomodate us with light. 1794S. Williams Hist. Vermont 94 His hind feet are accommodated with webs. Mod. Can you accommodate me with cash for a cheque?
12. simply. To suit, oblige, convenience. Also absol.
1663Cogan Voy. & Adv. of Pinto lxxix. 321 If it were such as would accommodate us, he would desire us to buy it. 1784Cowper Task i. 73 Ingenious fancy, never better pleas'd Than when employ'd t' accomodate the fair. 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. 24 I was willing to accommodate you by undertaking to sell the horse. 1881Mrs. J. H. Riddell Senior Partner xxxi, A common money-lender willin' to accommodate. 1888Gunter Mr. Potter of Texas xiv, ‘Won't you be seated?’..‘Certainly! Anything to accommodate!’
13. esp. To furnish or supply with suitable room and entertainment; to make room for, entertain suitably; to receive as an inmate.
1715Burnet Hist. own Time (1766) I. 81 How the King would be accommodated if he came among them. 1772Hist. Rochester 17 The honour of accommodating her (the Queen) at his house. 1840Dickens Barn. Rud. (C.D. ed.) lviii. 273 The cell..having recently accommodated a drunken deserter, was by no means clean. |
