Ac*com"mo*da*ble (&?;), a. [Cf. F. accommodable.] That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree. [R.] I. Watts.
Ac*com"mo*dable*ness, n. The quality or condition of being accommodable. [R.] Todd.
Ac*com"mo*date (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accommodated (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Accommodating (&?;).] [L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare; ad + commodare to make fit, help; con- + modus measure, proportion. See Mode.] 1. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. "They accommodate their counsels to his inclination." Addison.
2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
4. To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
Syn. -- To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.
Ac*com"mo*date, v. i. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [R.] Boyle.
Ac*com"mo*date (&?;), a. [L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare.] Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. [Archaic] Tillotson.