† accommodatelyadv.
Obsolete.
In a suitable or fitting manner; in a manner suited or adapted to.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adverb]
wellOE
tidily1340
avenantlya1375
covenablyc1384
featlya1400
propera1400
queema1400
congruelyc1400
conably1411
cordingc1420
convenablyc1430
competentlyc1440
fitc1440
accordantlyc1443
accordinglyc1443
conveniently1447
at pointc1485
congruentlya1529
appliablyc1530
afferandly1536
suitingly1540
aptly1548
answerably1549
fitlyc1550
agreeingly1563
suitable1584
not unfitly1586
aptitudinallyc1600
handsome1600
sortfully1606
sortably1607
congruouslya1620
accommodately1623
adaptlya1648
inabusivelya1677
suitably1681
agreeably1753
appropriately1795
suitly1913
righteous1948
1623 T. Powell Attourneys Acad. 152 (heading) The charges of trauersing of an Vtlary, and Pardon vpon the same, wherevpon you are to proceede in this and other Courts accommodatelie.
1653 H. More Conjectura Cabbalistica 130 Of all these Moses his wisdome held fit to give an account accommodately to the capacity of the people.
a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) i. 128 We do not speak properly, though more accomodately to the vulgar apprehension.
1709 T. Robinson Vindic. Mosaick Syst. Introd. p. ii, in Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland Every thing being represented so accommodately to the Capacity of the Vulgar.
1732 S. Browne Def. Relig. Nature ii. i. 433 It is more likely they should take the expression more accommodately to their knowledge and experience.
1827 G. Darley Sylvia v. iv. 171 Nor shall his lopt or lengthen'd form be stretch'd On iron bed, accommodately fill'd By every guest, pygmy, or stout, or tall.
1887 Disciple (Cincinnati) Feb. 238 It is not every form of indulgence that so accommodately seasons its victim to the ultimate consequences.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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