All 4 Uses of
accommodate
in
Moby Dick
- I sought the landlord, and telling him I desired to be accommodated with a room, received for answer that his house was full—not a bed unoccupied.†
Chpt 1-3
- Squaring her yards, she bore down, ranged abeam under the Pequod's lee, and lowered a boat; it soon drew nigh; but, as the side-ladder was being rigged by Starbuck's order to accommodate the visiting captain, the stranger in question waved his hand from his boat's stern in token of that proceeding being entirely unnecessary.†
Chpt 70-72
- For truly, the Right Whale's mouth would accommodate a couple of whist-tables, and comfortably seat all the players.†
Chpt 82-84 *
- Now as this law, under a modified form, is to this day in force in England; and as it offers in various respects a strange anomaly touching the general law of Fast and Loose-Fish, it is here treated of in a separate chapter, on the same courteous principle that prompts the English railways to be at the expense of a separate car, specially reserved for the accommodation of royalty.
Chpt 88-90 *accommodation = benefit
Definitions:
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(accommodate as in: moved to accommodate her) adjust something to provide for a need; or help
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(accommodate as in: the room can accommodate four) provide (or have the ability to provide) for something desired or needed