conformable
adjEtymology Latin conformabilis
1
Having the same shape or form; very similar.
- According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה (he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah.1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter V.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 192:
- In age well-balanced, in personal appearance fairly matched, and in domestic requirements conformable, in temper this couple differed, though even here they did not often clash, he being equable, if not lymphatic, and she decidedly nervous and sanguine.1888, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, in Wessex Tales:
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- A coincidence is the intersection of two lines, neither of which need possess in itself the least significance. When three lines meet at the selfsame point of time or space the laws of chance suggest the probability of some conformable agency.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
2
Suitable; compliant.
- Derived terms
- conformableness, conformably, disconformable, inconformable, nonconformable, paraconformable, pseudoconformable, subconformable, unconformable