ACCOMMODATE

v. a.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. "They accomodate their counsels to his inclination." Addison.

2.
v.

To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.

3.
v.

To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.

4.
v.

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.

5.
v.

To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [R.] Boyle.

6.
a.

Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. [Archaic] Tillotson.

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