comformable
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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 Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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 George O'Brien
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 George Long
The bishops would faine haue persuaded Anselme to haue shewed himselfe comformable to the kings pleasure, and therefore tooke paines with him earnestlie in that behalfe, but all would not serue.
From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus by Raphael Holinshed
On page 170, "comformable" was replaced with "conformable".
From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Katsuro Hara
