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▪ I. accommodating, vbl. n.|əˈkɒmədeɪtɪŋ|
[f. accommodate v. + -ing1.]
The action of adapting, suiting, fitting, adjusting, furnishing, obliging, or making room for. (Now mostly gerundial.)
1619Sir T. Edmondes Let. in Eng. & Germ. (1865) 57 His journey to Germany for the accommodating of the broyles in Bohemia. 1625Meade in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 318. III. 210 [The] Students at Oxford are by Letters of the Council commanded away for the better accommodating the parliament. Mod. They have no means of accommodating so many visitors.
▪ II. accommodating, ppl. a.|əˈkɒmədeɪtɪŋ|
[f. accommodate v. + -ing2.]
As a pple. Fitting, suiting, giving accommodation. Hence, adj. Affording, or disposed to afford accommodation; obliging, pliant, conciliatory; easy to deal with; in an evil sense, pliable, accessible to corruption.
1775Burke Conc. Amer. Wks. III. 59 Perhaps a more smooth and accomodating spirit of freedom in them would be more acceptable to us. 1850Mrs. Stowe Unc. T. Cab. xxxix. 342 Cassy had been unusually gracious and accommodating in her humours. 1855Prescott Philip II, I. i. ii. 18 The accommodating spirit of the good ecclesiastic had doubtless some influence in his rapid advancement. |