Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, a species of loan, gratuitous on the part of the lender, by which the borrower is obliged to restore the identical thing which was lent, in the condition in which he received it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Scots Law) A gratuitous loan.
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- noun Scotland, law A
gratuitous loan .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'd want to 'commodate' emall the whole-indurin 'flock
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"We hope to deter mine shortly if schedules and other commitments can ac commodate the committee on that date."
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In the philosophical writings of the early thirteenth century in Christendom attempts were made to ac - commodate the views of Aristotle to those of Saint
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JULIUS WEINBERG 1968
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One baby complained that he was hungry, not having had a drop of dinner, when the other calmly replied, "My-chilly-ma-can-ac-commodate-you."
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It's thrue I'm a very good king, "says he," and I 'commodate the people by having sates for them to sit down and enjoy the raycreation and contimplation of seein' me here lookin 'out o' my drawing room windy for divarsion; but that is no raison they're to make a hotel iv the place, and come and sleep here.
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In the philosophical writings of the early thirteenth century in Christendom attempts were made to ac - commodate the views of Aristotle to those of Saint
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An I gev five-an-eightpence for that piece o net, if I was to tell y anything else I should be tellin you fibs, an five-an-eightpence I shall ask of it, not a penny more, for its a womans article, an I like to commodate the women.
II. Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob’s Thumb. Book V—Wheat and Tares 1917
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Those enlarged joints never seemed to ac commodate themselves wholly to the sort of shoes
Flowing Gold Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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United States, with the regret, Beau, that I can't 'commodate you with
Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 Various 1902
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"I'd like ter 'commodate ye," he added, "but as I'm carryin 'Uncle Sam's mail, an' must git home an 'tend the light, and as ye don't know whar ye want ter go, ye best jump in an' go down to Saint's Rest, whar I live, an 'in the mornin' we'll try an 'hunt up yer boat."
Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast Charles Clark Munn 1882
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