comformable

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Is it not in the same sense that the Fathers condemned slavery as contrary to divine law, while respecting it as comformable to human law?

From An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching by O'Brien, George

I am even fully convinced that those women, who at heart, profess sentiments more comformable to mine, would be the first to consider it an honor to dispute them.

From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by Overton, William Hassell

He explained the hale circumstances o' the case to me, and I dinna think the charge o' a grown, handsome girl like Maggie was comformable, or to be thocht o'.

From A Daughter of Fife by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

"It's all werry comformable indeed, marse," said the obsequious Wool.

From Hidden Hand by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

Ancient, as having existed from time immemorial; and honorable, as tending in every particular so to render all men who will be comformable to its precepts.

From Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc. by Thornburgh, George