Lexic.us

Definition of Conformable

1. Adjective. Quick to comply. "I have been to you a true and humble wife, at all times to your will conformable"

2. Adjective. Disposed or willing to comply. "Someone amenable to persuasion"

3. Adjective. In keeping. "Expressed views concordant with his background"

Definition of Conformable

1. a. Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; -- usually followed by to.

Definition of Conformable

1. Adjective. Having the same shape, very similar. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Conformable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conformable

confluently confluents conflux confluxes confocal confocal microscope confocal microscopy confocal optics confocalized confocally

conforaneous conform conform to conformabilities conformability conformable (current term) conformableness conformably conformal conformal mapping

conformal optics conformal projection conformality conformally conformance conformances conformant conformateur conformateurs conformation

Literary usage of Conformable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1879)
"A measure of government (which is but a particular A measure of kind of action, performed by a particular person or persons) may conformable be said to be ..."

2. The Law of Nations; Or, Principles of the Law of Nature by Emer de Vattel (1854)
"... without degrading him by^oni)^ whom they are rendered; so, on the other hand, nothing is side of the more conformable to the law of nature than a ..."

3. Biblical Repertory by Charles Hodge, Peter Walker (1825)
"... supposes these readings to have been preserved by the use of the matres lectionis before the invention of vowels. Version of Aquila conformable with the ..."

4. The Law of Nations; Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel (1863)
"... so, on the other hand, nothing is side of the more conformable to the law of ... pre- conformable scribe to her a departure from the line of equality. ..."

5. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1844)
"<) " Being made conformable unto his death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead." (u) The Father has predestinated all whom he ..."

6. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1813)
"Because the ideas they stand for are supposed conformable to the reality of things, and are referred to standards made by nature. In our ideas of substances ..."

7. The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley by Arthur Cayley (1896)
"[From the American Journal of Mathematics, t. II. (1879), p. 186.] Is it possible to devise an apparatus for the mechanical construction of conformable ..."

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