accommodatedadj.
/əˈkɒmədeɪtᵻd/, U.S. /əˈkɑməˌdeɪdᵻd/ That is accommodated (in various senses); made fit or suitable; adapted, modified; provided for.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Propre..seemlie, comelie, well accommodated.
1630 J. Taylor Great Eater of Kent 13 After some accomodated salutations, I asked him if he could eate any Thing?
1698 W. Sherlock Present State Socinian Controv. ix. 335 When we expound such Terms as are used by the Catholick Fathers in such an accommodated Sense, we must apply them no further, than that particular Matter they intended to represent by them.
1730 J. Balguy Divine Rectitude 21 It is inconsistent with the Perception of the Deity to ascribe any of His Perceptions to an accommodated Faculty.
1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm iii. 61 An accommodated yet legitimate sense of the word.
1852 S. H. Turner Epist. to Hebrews 29 Tholuck on John ii. 16, 17, who shows that the Rabbinic and Syriac writers, and also the Koran, abound with accommodated quotations.
1901 Brain 24 595 The tendency to fade..is far greater with relaxed than with accommodated eye.
1985 R. J. Ackermann Relig. as Critique i. 26 It may turn out that an accommodated Christianity may have the weakest potential for critique of American society.
2006 Kansas Employm. Law Let. (Nexis) Dec. It wasn't necessary for Clarkson to further demonstrate what such accommodated employment would have paid.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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