v. t. [ L. abnodatus, p. p. of abnodare; ab + nodus knot. ] To clear (tress) from knots. [ R. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of cutting away the knots of trees. [ R. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. a- not + caudate. ] Tailless. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Accommodated p. pr. & vb. n. Accommodating ] [ L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare; ad + commodare to make fit, help; con- + modus measure, proportion. See Mode. ] 1. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. “They accommodate their counsels to his inclination.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [ R. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare. ] Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. [ Archaic ] Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Suitably; fitly. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fitness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. “The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.” Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. “To come to terms of accommodation.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Com.) (a) A loan of money. (b) An accommodation bill or note. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accommodation bill, or
note (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. --
Accommodation coach, or
train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. --
Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. He who, or that which, accommodates. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_;. &unr_;. a short cloak. ] (Zool.) Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. A fine cotton cloth of India. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ad to + nodus a knot. ] (Her.) Curved somewhat in the form of the letter S. Cussans. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anticipation. [ Obs. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Antedated; p. pr. & vb. n. Antedating. ] 1. To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; ; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To precede in time. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To anticipate; to make before the true time. [ 1913 Webster ]

And antedate the bliss above. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who rather rose the day to antedate. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ LL. arendator, arrendator, fr. arendare, arrendare, to pay rent, fr. arenda yearly rent; ad + renda, F. rente, E. rent. Cf. Arrentation and Rent. ] In some provinces of Russia, one who farms the rents or revenues. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A person who rents an estate belonging to the crown is called crown arendator. Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + fecundation. ] (Biol.) Self-impregnation. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. to make effective from an earlier date; to make retroactive. The increase in tax was backdated to January.
Syn. -- back-date [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to affix a date earlier than the present date; -- sometimes done for fraudulent purposes. Opposite of postdate.
Syn. -- back-date; predate; antedate. [ PJC ]

Backdate is sometimes used incorrectly for postdate.

n. [ Backward, v. t. + -ation. ] (Stock Exchange) The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + caudate. ] Two-tailed; bicaudal. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ See pref. Bi-, and Cuspidate. ] Having two points or prominences; ending in two points; -- said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bifidatus. ] See Bifid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. L. blanditia, blandities, fr. blandus. See Bland. ] Flattery. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Candidatus, n. (because candidates for office in Rome were clothed in a white toga.) fr. candidatus clothed in white, fr. candiduslittering, white: cf. F. candidat. ] One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Candidacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement. [ Cant, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Candidacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. cauda tail. ] (Zool.) See Urodela. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. cauda tail. ] Having a tail; having a terminal appendage like a tail. Opposite of acaudate. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. chlamydatus dressed in a military cloak. See Chlamys. ] (Zool.) Having a mantle; -- applied to certain gastropods. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography. R. Hunt. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. chorda cord. ] (Zool.) A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. circum- + denudation. ] (Geol.) Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an object. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hills of circumdenudation, hills which have been produced by surface erosion; the elevations which have been left, after denudation of a mass of high ground. Jukes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mandatory; as, commandatory authority. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. commendataire, LL. commendatarius. ] One who holds a living in commendam. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. commendatio. ] 1. The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Need we . . . epistles of commendation? 2 Cor. iii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

By the commendation of the great officers. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is the ground of approbation or praise. [ 1913 Webster ]

Good nature is the most godlike commendation of a man. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. A message of affection or respect; compliments; greeting. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Hark you, Margaret;
No princely commendations to my king? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. ] One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. commendatorius. ] 1. Serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising. “Commendatory verses.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Commendatory prayer (Book of Common Prayer), a prayer read over the dying. “The commendatory prayer was said for him, and, as it ended, he [ William III. ] died.” Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A commendation; eulogy. [ R. ] “Commendatories to our affection.” Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. commodatum thing lent, loan. ] (Scots Law) A gratuitous loan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. concordat, L. concordato, prop. p. p. of concordare. See Concord. ] 1. A compact, covenant, or agreement concerning anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An agreement made between the pope and a sovereign or government for the regulation of ecclesiastical matters with which both are concerned; as, the concordat between Pope Pius VII and Bonaparte in 1801. Hook. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. consolidatus, p. pr. of consolidare to make firm; con- + solidare to make firm; solidus solid. See Solid, and cf. Consound. ] Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A gentleman [ should learn to ride ] while he is tender and the brawns and sinews of his thighs not fully consolidate. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Consolidated p. pr. & vb. n. Consolidating ] 1. To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm. [ 1913 Webster ]

He fixed and consolidated the earth. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body; to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to consolidate the armies of the republic. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consolidating numbers into unity. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Surg.) To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound. [ R. ]

Syn. -- To unite; combine; harden; compact; condense; compress. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying. [ 1913 Webster ]

In hurts and ulcers of the head, dryness maketh them more apt to consolidate. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. 1. Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Aggregate Fund . . . consisted of a great variety of taxes and surpluses of taxes and duties which were [ in 1715 ] consolidated. Rees. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mass of partially consolidated mud. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787) three public funds (the Aggregate Fund, the General Fund, and the South Sea Fund). In 1816, the larger part of the revenues of Great Britian and Ireland was assigned to what has been known as the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, out of which are paid the interest of the national debt, the salaries of the civil list, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. consolidatio a confirming: cf. F. consolidation. ] 1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consolidation of the marble and of the stone did not fall out at random. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consolidation of the great European monarchies. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) The combination of several actions into one. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. consolidatif. ] Tending or having power to consolidate; healing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cor, cordis, heart. ] (Bot.) Heart-shaped; as, a cordate leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]