accommodate

t. & i. [Lat. accommo dat us, pa. par. of accommodo to make one thing of the same size and shape as another, to fit, to adapt ad to, and commodo = to adapt; commodus = measured with a measure, from com con = together, and modus = a measure.] [MODE.] L. Transitive: 1. To fit, to adjust to. " and their servile labours accommodated the old system to the spirit and views of despotism."Gibbon: Decl. and Fall , ch. xliv. the art of accommodating his language and deportment to the society in which he found himself" -Macaulay Hist . Eng ., ch. ii. 2. Spec. To make up or adjust differences. every attempt that was made to accommodate one dispute ended by producing another."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xi. 3. To furnish with anything needful or convenient. "Heaven speed the canvas gallantly unfurl'd To furnish and accommodate a world; To give the pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one." Cowper: Charity. 4. Comm.: To lend with the view of suiting the convenience of the borrower. "In the former the borrower was obliged to restore the same individual thing with which hich he had been accommodated for the temporary supply of his wants." -Gibbon: Decl. and Fall , ch. xliv. 5. Theol.: To suit or fit the language of a prophecy to an event which it typifies or illustrates rather than directly predicts; to use the sens us accomodativus of the Roman Church. "In accommodating the pa ages of Scripture "Trans., Tholuck on the Hebrews , ii. 202. *II. In trans. To be conformable to; to agree with. "How little the consistence and duration of many of them seer a to accommodate and be explicable by the proposed notion."- Boyle : Sceptical Chemist. In Shakespeare's and Ben Jonson's days accommodate was a very fashionable word, or, as the latter expre es it, one of "the perfumed words of the time." (See Shakesp., 2 Hen . IV ., iii. 2.)