commodious

UK /kəˈməʊdɪ.əs/ US /kəˈmoʊdi.əs/
adj 5

Definitions

adj

1

Spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable.

Our house is much more commodious than our old apartment.

And because the hauen was not commodious to winter in, the more part aduised to depart thence […]

2

Convenient, serviceable, suitable.

If they thinke that we ought to proue the ceremonies commodious which we haue reteined, they doe in this point very greatly deceiue themſelues.

There wallowing warm, th’ enormous herd exhales / An oily ſteam, and taints the noon-tide gales. / To that receſs, commodious for ſurprize, / When purple light shall ſuffuſe the skies, / […]

3

Advantageous, profitable, beneficial.

I will now ſhew vnto you, an Example of a Shield, illuſtrated with manifold variety of Celeſtiall bodies, &c. Which will be very neceſſary and commodious to be inſerted in this place.

When a poſition teems thus with commodious conſequences, who can without regret confeſs it to be falſe?

4

Of life or living, endowed with conveniences; comfortable; free from hardship.

The Paſſions that encline man to Peace, are Feare of Death; Deſire of such things as are neceſſary to commodious living; and a Hope by their Induſtry to obtain them.

My Life (ſays Horace) ſpeaking to one of theſe Magnifico's) is a great deal more eaſie and commodious than thine, in that I can go into the Market and cheapen what I pleaſe without being wonder'd at; […]

5

Of a person, accommodating, obliging, helpful.

Patroclus will giue me any thing for the intelligence of / this whore: the Parrot will not doe more for an Almond, / then he for a commodious drab: […]

The dame's a most commodious quean, / A gypsy born, and go-hetween !

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