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Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.

s prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.

A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause. On such a day, a holiday having been voted by acclamation, an ordinary walk would not satisfy the children. Southey.

Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation.

Capable of being acclimated.

Acclimatization.

To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. J. H. Newman.

Acclimation. [R.]

The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

Capable of being acclimatized.

The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured. Darwin.

To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.

The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. [R.] Caldwell.

A combining together. [R.]

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

Suitably; fitly. [R.]

Fitness. [R.]

Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale.

He who, or that which, accommodates. Warburton.