[f. ACCOMMODATE v. + -ING1.] The action of adapting, suiting, fitting, adjusting, furnishing, obliging, or making room for. (Now mostly gerundial.)
1619. Sir T. Edmondes, Lett., in Eng. & Germ. (1865), 57. His journey to Germany for the accommodating of the broyles in Bohemia.
1625. Meade, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., I. 318. III. 210. [The] Students at Oxford are by Letters of the Council commanded away for the better accommodating the parliament.
Mod. They have no means of accommodating so many visitors.
