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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

... a. Make your expression conform to English idiom. A faulty idiom is an expression which, though correct in grammar and general meaning, combines words in a manner contrary to usage. Idioms are established by custom, and cannot be explained ...

— The Century Handbook of Writing • Garland Greever

... he proposed, and without the intervention of a human hand to have raised a wall about his metropolis. [32] It is certainly less difficult to conceive the savage man to be rendered placable, and to conform to the dictates of civilisation, or even wild beasts to be made tame, than to imagine stones to obey the voice and the will of a human being. The example however is not singular; and hereafter we shall find related that Merlin, the British enchanter, by the power of magic caused the ...

— Lives of the Necromancers • William Godwin

... to the Catholics all the monasteries and land which had formerly belonged to the Catholic Church. The Catholic service was alone to be performed, and the Catholic princes of the empire were ordered to constrain their subjects, by force if necessary, to conform to the Catholic faith; and it was intimated to the Protestant princes that they would be equally forced to carry the edict into effect. But this was too much. Even France disapproved, not from any feeling of pity on the part of Richelieu for the Protestants, ...

— The Lion of the North • G.A. Henty

... have received at the next stage a considerable amount of support. Taking an extreme case, the candidate at the bottom of the poll may have been so generally popular as to have been the second choice of the majority of the electors. This is theoretically conceivable, but it does not conform to the facts of elections. The principle of eliminating a candidate at the bottom of the poll is not peculiar to the single transferable vote. When a constituency returns but one member and there are three candidates, and it ...

— Proportional Representation - A Study in Methods of Election • John H. Humphreys

... direct author of eternal damnation to those who are lost, are among the theories which, though they are still taught and professed here and there, have long ago ceased to have real influence over men's hearts or actions. In the same way, there are multitudes who still conform to the outward ceremony of Confirmation, upon whose salvation from sin or separation from the world that ceremony has absolutely no influence whatever, although, for custom's sake, ...

— Our Master • Bramwell Booth

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