Made to resemble; assuming the same form; like; resembling. [Little used.]
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To comply with or yield to; to live or act according to; as, to conform to the fashion or to custom.
2. To comply with; to obey; as, to conform to the laws of the state.
1. To make like, in external appearance; to reduce to a like shape, or form, with something else; with to; as, to conform any thing to a model.
2. More generally, to reduce to a likeness or correspondence in manners, opinions or moral qualities.
3. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son. Romans 8:29 .
4. Be not conformed to this world. Romans 12:2 .
5. To make agreeable to; to square with a rule or directory.
6. Demand of them why they conform not themselves to the order of the church?
Of the same form; similar in import; conformable.
2. To comply with the usages of the Established Church; to be a conformist.
To shape in accordance with; to make like; to bring into harmony or agreement with; -- usually with to or unto.
1. The state of being conformable.
2. The parallelism of two sets of strata which are in contact.
1. Correspondent; having the same or similar external form, or shape; like; resembling; as an edifice conformable to a model or draft.
2. Having the same or similar manners, opinions or moral qualities.
3. The Gentiles were not made conformable to the Jews, in that which was to cease at the coming of Christ.
4. Agreeable; suitable; consistent; as, nature is conformable to herself.
6. I have been to you a true and humble wife, At all time to your will conformable
7. It is generally followed by to, but good writers have used with. In its etymological sense, that may be conformed, capable of being conformed, it seems not to be used.
1. Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; -- usually followed by to.
3. Parallel, or nearly so; -- said of strata in contact.
The quality of being conformable; conformability.
2. Let us settle, in our own minds, what rules to pursue and act conformably
Conformity.
Having the same form.
1. The manner in which a body is formed; the particular texture or structure of a body, or disposition of the parts which compose it; form; structure; often with relation to some other body, and with adaptation to some purpose or effect.
2. Light of different colors is reflected from bodies, according to their different conformation Varieties of sound depend on the conformation of the organs.
3. The act of conforming; the act of producing suitableness, or conformity; with to; as the conformation of our hearts and lives to the duties of true religion.
4. In medical science, the particular make or construction of the body peculiar to an individual; as a good or bad conformation
1. The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.
2. The state of being conformed; agreement; hence; structure, as depending on the arrangement of parts; form; arrangement.
Made to resemble; reduced to a likeness of; made agreeable to; suited.
One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.
One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.
of Conform
One who conforms or complies; appropriately, one who complies with the worship of the church of England or of the established church, as distinguished from a dissenter, or nonconformist.
One who conforms or complies; esp., one who conforms to the Church of England, or to the Established Church, as distinguished from a dissenter or nonconformist.
of Conformity
1. Likeness; correspondence with a model in form or manner; resemblance; agreement; congruity with something else; followed by to or with.
2. A ship is constructed in conformity to a model, or in conformity with a model.
3. True happiness consists in conformity of life to the divine law.
4. Consistency; agreement.
5. Many instances prove the conformity of the essay with the notions of Hippocrates.
6. In theology, correspondence in manners and principles; compliance with customs.
7. Live no in conformity with the world.
1. Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between.
2. Compliance with the usages of the Established Church.
Expedience Roget’s Thesaurus §646
N. expedience, expediency, desirableness, desirability, fitness, utility, propriety, opportunism, advantage, high time
V. be expedient, suit, befit, suit the time, befit the time, suit the season, befit the season, suit the occasion, befit the occasion, conform
Adj. expedient, desirable, advisable, acceptable, convenient, worth while, meet, fit, fitting, due, proper, eligible, seemly, becoming, befitting, opportune, in loco, suitable, applicable
Adv. in the right place, conveniently
Phr. operae pretium est
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4 KJV and 8 BSB verses contain “Conform”
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You have been more insubordinate than the nations around you; you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances, nor have you even conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.’
And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.
Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
And whoso would not conform themselves to the manners of the Gentiles should be put to death. Then might a man have seen the present misery.