Accommodate

ak-kom′mod-āt, v.t. to adapt: to make suitable: to adjust: to harmonise or force into consistency ( to ): to furnish or supply ( with ): to provide entertainment for.— p.adj. Accom′modating , affording accommodation: obliging: pliable: easily corrupted.— n. Accommodā′tion , convenience: fitne : adjustment: obligingne : an arrangement or compromise: ( theol. ) an adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as une ential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakne : a loan of money.— adj. Accom′modative , furnishing accommodation: obliging.— ns. Accom′modativene ; Accom′modator .— Accommodation bill , a bill drawn, accepted, or endorsed by one or more persons as security for a sum advanced to another by a third party, as a banker; Accommodation ladder , a stairway at the outside of a ship's gangway to facilitate acce to boats. [L. ad , to, commodus , fitting. See Commodious .]