Accommodated

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Accommodate \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.
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     2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to
        compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate
        differences, a dispute, etc.
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     3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient;
        to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a
        loan or with lodgings.
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     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.
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     Syn: To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.
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