Accommodate vs Embrace - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between accommodate and embrace

is that accommodate is suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end while embrace is to cling to; to cherish; to love.

As an adjective accommodate

is suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

As a noun embrace is

hug noun; putting arms around someone.

accommodate

English

Verb

(accommodat)

(transitive, often, reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

They accommodate their counsels to his inclination. -

To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.

To provide housing for; to furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.

To do a favor or service for; to oblige;

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.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.

To give consideration to; to allow for.

To contain comfortably; to have space for.

(rare) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.

Synonyms

* suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.

Antonyms

* (obsolete) discommodate

Adjective

(en adjective)

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

* John Tillotson

God did not primarily intend to appoint this way of worship, and to impose it upon them as that which was most proper and agreeable to him; but that he condescended to it as most accommodate to their present state and inclination.

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embrace

English

Alternative forms

* imbrace (obsolete)

Verb

(embrac)

To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.

* Shakespeare

I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, / That he shall shrink under my courtesy.

* Bible, Acts xx. 1

Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them.

(obsolete) To cling to; to cherish; to love.

(Shakespeare)

To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.

I wholeheartedly embrace the new legislation.

* Shakespeare

You embrace the occasion.

* John Locke

What is there that he may not embrace for truth?

To accept; to undergo; to submit to.

* Shakespeare

I embrace this fortune patiently.

To encircle; to encompass; to enclose.

* Dryden

Not that my song, in such a scanty space, / So large a subject fully can embrace .

* Denham

Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, / Between the mountain and the stream embraced .

To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.

Natural philosophy embraces many sciences.

To fasten on, as armour.

(Spenser)

(legal) To attempt to influence (a jury, court, etc.) corruptly.

(Blackstone)

Noun

(en noun)

Hug (noun); putting arms around someone.

*:a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.

(metaphorical) Enfolding, including.