To accommodate: to appropre: to applie: to make apt, fitte, lyke, or agreeing to: to set in order: to lende: to conforme. Ad Rempub. & ad magnas res gerendas se accommodare. Cic. To giue or apply himselfe to, &c. Accommodare anímÛ literis. Suet. Quint. To applie to, &c. Iusiurandum ad alicuius rei testimonium. Cicer. To take an othe in witnesse of a thing. Suum consilium ad consilium alterius. Cic. To applie his counsayle according to the aduice of another. Coronam sibi ad caput accommodare Cic. To set fitly on his head. Curam auribus, Quintil. to heare diligently. Curam pecoribus & agris. Quint. To set his care vpon cattaile and husbandrie. Ensem lateri accommodare. Virgil. To hange his sworde by his side. Ferulas accommodare. Cels. To set or binde splentes to an arme or legge broken. Intentionem accommodare. Plin. iunior. To do a thing diligently: to giue diligence to. Illud si scissem ad id meas literas accommodassem. Cicer. I would haue written my letters thereafter. Mendacium suum alicui. Cic. To make alye to the ende to do pleasure to a man. Operare studio literarum, & Accommodare curam literis. Quintil. To applie his diligence to studie. Orationem auribus multitudinis. Cic. To temper his talke to the fantasie and pleasure of, &c. Patientiam accommodare. B. To suffer. Patientiam accommodare vtenti, vel vsurpanti. B. To suffer to enioy or use. Vt sumptus huius peregrinationis accommodet ad mercedem Argileti. Cic. That he doe not dispend more: or that be will measure his expence in this voyage according to the reuenue of, &c. Tempus alicui rei, & ad aliquam rem. Cic. Testes ad crimen. Cic. To bring forth witnesse according to the accusation. Vocem veritati. Quint. To apply his voyce and pronunciation to, &c. Accommodare, & fingere se ad alicuius arbitrium & nutum. Cic. To fashion and conforme himselfe, &c. Accommodare aliquid in rem aliquam, vt in plures causas accommodare idem exordium. Cic. To make one beginning serue many matters. Pyxìnum eôdem accommodatum est. Cels. Is fitte, conuenient, or profitable to the same purpose. Accommodare alicui de habitatione. Cic. To giue one, or suffer him to bane a place to lodge or abide in. Accommodare alicui ædes ad nuptías. Cic. To lende one his house to solemnise a mariage in.

I. Lit.: coronam sibi ad caput, Cic. de Or. 2, 61, 250: clupeum ad dorsum, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 93: gladium dextrae, Lucil. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 21, 48; so, hastam dextrae, Sil. 5, 146: calauticam capiti, Cic. Fragm. Or. in Clod. 5; so, lateri ensem, Verg. A. 2, 393; absol.: insignia, Caes. B. G. 2, 21, 5.—

B. In gen., to prepare for any use: Arabus lapis dentifriciis adcommodatur crematus, Plin. 36, 21, 41, 153.

II. Trop., to adjust or adapt to, to accommodate to: meum consilium adcommodabo ad tuum, Cic. Fam. 9, 7; so id. Att. 10, 7; 12, 32; id. Leg. 3, 2 al.—Hence, with se, to adapt one's self to another's opinion, wishes, etc., to conform to, to comply with: omnes qui probari volunt, ad eorum qui audiunt arbitrium et nutum totos se fingunt et adcommodant, Cic. Or. 8, 24: alicui de aliqua re, to be compliant to one in any thing: peto a te ... ut ei de habitatione adcommodes, id. Fam. 13, 2. —

B. In gen., to bring a person or thing to something, to apply: testes ad crimen, Cic. Verr. 1, 18, 55: vim ad eloquentiam, id. Or. 7: curam pratis, etc., to apply, Quint. 1, 12, 7: nonnullam operam his studiis, id. 1, 10, 15; cf. 1, 8, 19: verba alicui (equival. to dare), id. 6, 1, 27; cf. 11, 1, 39 al.: intentionem his, Plin. Ep. 2, 5, 2 al.— Hence, with se (in a more general sense than above), to apply or devote one's self to, to undertake: se ad rem publicam et ad res magnas gerendas, Cic. Off. 1, 21; of property, to lend it to one for use: si quid iste suorum aedilibus adcommodavit, id. Verr. 2, 4, 57.—Hence, accommŏdātus, a, um, P. a., fitted or adapted to, suitable, conformable, or appropriate to (only in prose; in poetry, accommodus is used), with ad or dat.: puppes ad magnitudinem fluctuum adcommodatae, Caes. B. G. 3, 13: oratio ad persuadendum adcommodata, Cic. Ac. 1, 8: quae mihi intelligis esse adcommodata, conformable to my interest, id. Fam. 3, 3. —Comp.: oratio contionibus concitatis adcommodatior, id. Clu. 1; so Caes. B. G. 3, 13: nobis accommodatior, Quint. 4, 1, 5; Suet. Ner. 8.—Sup.: exemplum temporibus suis adcommodatissimum, Cic. Fragm. Corn. 7; so Plin. 13, 3, 6, 26; Plin. Ep. 5, 19, 7; Quint. 12, 10, 63 al.—Adv.: accommŏ-dāte, fitly, suitably, agreeably: dicere quam maxime adc. ad veritatem, Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 149.—Comp., id. Or. 33, 117.— Sup., id. Fin. 5, 9, 24.