Part 86

<syn>Syn. -- To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.</syn>

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<hw>Ac*com"mo*date</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Boyle.</i>

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<hw>Ac*com"mo*date</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>accommodatus</ets>, p.p. of <ets>accommodare</ets>.]</ety> <def>Suitable; fit; adapted; <as>as, means <ex>accommodate</ex> to end</as>.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<i>Tillotson.</i>

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<hw>Ac*com"mo*date*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Suitably; fitly.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

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<hw>Ac*com"mo*date*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Fitness.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

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<hw>Ac*com"mo*da`ting</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an <i>accommodating</i> man, spirit, arrangement.</def>

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<hw>Ac*com`mo*da"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>accommodatio</ets>, fr. <ets>accommodare</ets>: cf. F. <ets>accommodation</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by <i>to</i>.</def> "The organization of the body with <i>accommodation</i> to its functions."

<i>Sir M. Hale.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; <as>as, the <ex>accomodations</ex> -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn</as>.</def>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.</def> "To come to terms of <i>accommodation</i>."

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.</def>

<blockquote>Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than <b>accommodations</b>. <i>Paley.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Com.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A loan of money.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>An accommodation bill or note.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>Accommodation bill</col>, or <col>note</col></mcol> <fld>(Com.)</fld>, <cd>a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Accommodation coach</col>, or <col>train</col></mcol>, <cd>one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations.</cd> -- <col>Accommodation ladder</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Ac*com"mo*da`tor</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>He who, or that which, accommodates.</def>