ACCOMMODATE

ACCOM'MODATE, verb transitive [Latin accommodo, to apply or suit, from ad and commodo, to profit or help; of con, with, and modus, measure, proportion, limit, or manner. See Mode.]1. To fit, adapt, or make suitable; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances; to accommodate the choice of subjects to the occasions.2. To supply with or furnish; followed by with; as, to accommodate a man with apartments.3. To supply with conveniences, as to accommodate a friend.4. To reconcile things which are at variance; to adjust; as to accommodate differences.5. To show fitness or agreement; to apply; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.6. To lend - a commercial sense.In an intransitive sense, to agree, to be conformable to, as used by Boyle.ACCOM'MODATE, adjective suitable; fit; adapted; as means accommodate to the end.

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accommodate. Accommodate, v.t. to suit, fit, apply, reconcile

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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. 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. 2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
3. 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. 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.