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.
Accommodate
(Ac*com"mo*date), v. i. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [R.] Boyle.
Accommodate
(Ac*com"mo*date) a. [L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare.] Suitable; fit; adapted; as,
means accommodate to end. [Archaic] Tillotson.
Accommodately
(Ac*com"mo*date*ly), adv. Suitably; fitly. [R.]
Accommodateness
(Ac*com"mo*date*ness), n. Fitness. [R.]
Accommodating
(Ac*com"mo*da`ting) a. Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as
an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.
Accommodation
(Ac*com`mo*da"tion) n. [L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.]
1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; — followed
by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale.
2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is
desired or needful; — often in the plural; as, the accommodations — that is, lodgings and food — at an
inn. Sir W. Scott.
4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. "To come to terms of accommodation."
Macaulay.
5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred
to or intended.
Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations.
Paley.
6. (Com.) (a) A loan of money. (b) An accommodation bill or note.
Accommodation bill, or note (Com.), 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. — Accommodation coach, or train, one running at moderate speed and stopping
at all or nearly all stations. — Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a
ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.
