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verb

Conform v. t. (past & past part. conformed; pres. part. conforming) To shape in accordance with; to make like; to bring into harmony or agreement with; usually with to or unto. "Demand of them wherefore they conform not themselves unto the order of the church."

Conform v. i.

To be in accord or harmony; to comply; to be obedient; to submit; with to or with. "A rule to which experience must conform."

(Eng. Eccl. Hist.) To comply with the usages of the Established Church; to be a conformist. "About two thousand ministers whose consciences did not suffer them to conform were driven from their benefices in a day."

adjective

Conform adj. Of the same form; similar in import; conformable. "Care must be taken that the interpretation be every way conform to the analogy of faith."

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"Conform" Quotes from Famous Books

... figures offer no impediment to the view of their interiors, and they themselves in no way impede our vision of surrounding objects. If we assume that clairvoyance in space is the perception of the things of our world from the region of the fourth dimension, the phenomena exactly conform to the demands of our analogy. It is no more difficult for a four-dimensional intelligence to understand the appearance or disappearance of a body in a completely closed room, or the withdrawal of an orange from its skin, ...

— Four-Dimensional Vistas • Claude Fayette Bragdon

... ceremony of marriage according to their rites. The gift of fruit, of fowl, and of game. The blindfolding of the bridegroom. The absolute silence when eating. Preparation for the banquet that night. Sutoto and Cinda arrange to be married that night while the people are at the banquet. Decide to conform strictly to the rites of the tribe. The boys learn of the stealthy plans. Witness the ceremony in Cinda's home. The Chief arrests the bridal couple and takes them aboard the ship. The criminals before the Chief. The Chief upbraids Sutoto. The reconciliation. The presents brought ...

— The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands • Roger Thompson Finlay

... in the service of the rajah, Charlie intended to make but little farther pretence, or secrecy, as to his nationality. Outwardly, he would still conform to the language and appearance of the character he had chosen; but he would allow it to be supposed that he was an Englishman, a deserter from the Company's service, and that his comrades were Sepoys in a similar position. His employment, then, at the court of the rajah, ...

— With Clive in India - Or, The Beginnings of an Empire • G. A. Henty

... present day, however, seems to be strongly in favor of the process mentioned first—that of changing the sound of the names to suit American ears, and altering the spelling so as to conform to the new pronunciation. There is every indication that this will be done with regard to a very large majority of the foreign surnames that have been introduced among us within the last fifty years, or ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Vol. XVII, No. 102. June, 1876. • Various

... ordered a general assault; the 88th Brigade to be thrown in on the top of the 87th; the New Zealand Brigade in support; the French to conform. Our gunners had put more than they could afford into the bombardment and had very little wherewith to ...

— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton

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