different between accommodate vs propitiate

English

Etymology

1530s, from Latin accommod?tus, perfect passive participle of accommod?; ad + commod? (“make fit, help”); com- + modus (“measure, proportion”) (English mode).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k?m??de?t/, [??k??m??de?t]
• (US) IPA^(key): /??k?m??de?t/, [??k??m??de?t]

Verb

accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodating, simple past and past participle accommodated)

1. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.

   Synonyms: adapt, conform, adjust, arrange, suit

   • 1712 June 18, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, number 475, collected in The Spectator, volume VII^[1], London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, published 1753, page 15:

     IT is an old Ob?ervation, which has been made of Politicians who would rather ingratiate them?elves with their Sovereign, than promote his real Service, that they accommodate their Coun?els to his Inclinations, and advi?e him to ?uch Actions only as his Heart is naturally ?et upon.

2. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.

   Synonym: reconcile

3. (transitive) To provide housing for.

4. To provide sufficient space for
5. (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.

6. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige.

   Synonym: oblige

7. (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.

8. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
9. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.

10. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
11. (intransitive, of an eye) To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.

Antonyms

• discommodate (obsolete)

Translations

Adjective

accommodate (comparative more accommodate, superlative most accommodate)

1. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

Further reading

• accommodate at OneLook Dictionary Search
• accommodate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Latin

Adverb

accommod?t? (comparative accommod?tius, superlative accommod?tissim?)

1. suitably

Related terms

• accommod?ti?
• accommod?tus
• accommod?
• accommodus

References

• accommodate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• accommodate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• accommodate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??k?m?det]

Verb

accommodate (third-person singular present accommodates, present participle accommodatin, past accomodatit, past participle accommodat)

1. accommodate

References

• Eagle, Andy, de. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

English

Etymology

From Latin propiti?re (“make favourable”), from propitius (“favourable, gracious”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p???p??ie?t/

Verb

propitiate (third-person singular simple present propitiates, present participle propitiating, simple past and past participle propitiated)

1. (transitive) To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.

   Synonym: appease

   • 1720, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, Book 1, lines 191-192:

     Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage,

     The god propitiate, and the pest assuage.

   • 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi, Vol. 2, ch. 25:

     But polite and politic it is, to propitiate your hostess.

   • 1910, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, The Pools of Silence, ch. 30:

     [H]e heard . . . one of the soldiers singing as he cleaned his rifle—the men always sang over this business, as if to propitiate the gun god.

   • 2001 Sept. 30, Thom Shanker, "Who Will Fight This War?," New York Times (retrieved 21 April 2015):

     By saying unequivocally that conscription is not an option, the Bush administration and the Rumsfeld Pentagon, while propitiating the ghost of Vietnam, are also profiting from the success of the all-volunteer military.

2. (transitive) To make propitious or favourable.
3. (intransitive) To make propitiation.

   Synonym: atone

Derived terms

• propitiation
• propitious

Translations

Latin

Verb

propiti?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of propiti?