Administer vs Accommodate - What's the difference?

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Administer is a related term of accommodate.

In lang=en terms the difference between administer and accommodate

is that administer is to minister (to) while accommodate is to contain comfortably; to have space for.

As verbs the difference between administer and accommodate

is that administer is to cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit while accommodate is (transitive|often|reflexive) to render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

As an adjective accommodate is

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

administer

English

Alternative forms

* administre (obsolete)

Verb

(en verb)

To cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit.

We administered the medicine to our dog by mixing it in his food.

* Macaulay

A noxious drug had been administered to him.

To apportion out.

* Spectator

A fountain administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place.

* Macaulay

Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known.

* Philips

[Let zephyrs] administer their tepid, genial airs.

To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.

* Alexander Pope

For forms of government let fools contest: / Whate'er is best administered is best.

To minister (to).

administering to the sick

(legal) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.

To tender, as an oath.

* Shakespeare

Swear to keep the oath that we administer .

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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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