comformable

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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

Without this practice, so comformable to faith, and without the light and strength that result from it, the pains and afflictions of life would become unbearable.

From Light and Peace Instructions for devout souls to dispel their doubts and allay their fears by Quadrupani, Carlo Giuseppe

"I must not stay, but it is my Lady's wish that you should have all that is comformable, and you'll let me know how Madge behaves herself."

From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

And yet no force is imposed on it, but only those things which are comformable to its nature: still it does not submit, but is carried in the opposite direction.

From Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius by Long, George