All 4 Uses of
accommodate
in
Silas Marner
- But I was willing to accommodate you by undertaking to sell the horse, seeing it's not convenient to you to go so far to-morrow.
Chpt 1.3 (definition 1) *accommodate = help
- The resource occurred to him now as so easy and agreeable, especially as Marner's hoard was likely to be large enough to leave Godfrey a handsome surplus beyond his immediate needs, and enable him to accommodate his faithful brother, that he had almost turned the horse's head towards home again.
Chpt 1.4 (definition 2) *accommodate = provide for
- I accommodated him by taking the horse, though it was against my will, for I'd got an itch for a mare o' Jortin's—as rare a bit o' blood as ever you threw your leg across.
Chpt 1.4 (definition 1)accommodated = helped
- By the landlord's intervention, however, the dispute was accommodated.
Chpt 1.7 (definition 1)accommodated = settled to satisfy competing interests
Definitions:
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(1) (accommodate as in: moved to accommodate her) adjust something to provide for a need; or help
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(2) (accommodate as in: the room can accommodate four) provide (or have the ability to provide) for something desired or needed