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25 words match “COMMODATE”

COMMODATE n.
A gratuitous loan.
ACCOMMODATE v. 6 definitions
To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. "They accomodate their counsels to his inclination." Addison.
ACCOMMODATELY adv.
Suitably; fitly. [R.]
ACCOMMODATENESS n.
Fitness. [R.]
DISACCOMMODATE v.
To put to inconvenience; to incommode. [R.] Bp. Warburton.
DISCOMMODATE v.
To discommode. [Obs.] Howell.
INCOMMODATE v.
To incommode. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
ACCOMMODABLE a.
That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree. [R.] I. Watts.
ACCOMMODATION n.
Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
ACCOMMODATOR n.
He who, or that which, accommodates. Warburton.
ATTEMPER v.
To accommodate; to make suitable; to adapt. Arts . . . attempered to the lyre. Pope.
BEDSTAFF n.
s of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side." Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.
CONDESCEND v.
scend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior. "Condescend to men of low estate." Rom. xii. 16. Can they think me so broken, so debased With corporal servitude, that my mind ever Will condescend to such absurd commands Milton. Spain's might…
CONGRESS n.
consider and determine matters of common interest. The European powers strove to . . . accommodate their differences at the congress of Vienna. Alison.
DISACCOMMODATION n.
A state of being unaccommodated or unsuited. [R.] Sir M. Hale.
DRAMA n.
A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage. A divine pastor…
FASHION v.
To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to. Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people. Spenser.
IMPROVABLE a.
ing made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities. Man is accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties. Sir M. Hale. I have a fine spread of improvable lands. Addison.
OBLIGE v.
vor rendered; to place under a debt; hence, to do a favor to; to please; to gratify; to accommodate. Thus man, by his own strength, to heaven would soar, And would not be obliged to God for more. Dryden. The gates before it are brass, and the whole much obliged to Pope Urban VIII. Evelyn. I shall be more obliged to you…
SETTEE n.
A long seat with a back, -- made to accommodate several persons at once.
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