"We found," they wrote, "the Prior a very honest, conformable person, and the house well furnished with jewels and plate, whereof some be meet for the king's majesty in use as a little chalice of gold, a goodly large cross, double gilt with the foot garnished, and with stone and pearl; two goodly basons double gilt.

This conduct, my lords, was exactly conformable to the demands of those by whom the court has hitherto been opposed, and who have signalized themselves as the most watchful guardians of liberty.

One other expedient, at least, has been already discovered by the wonderful sagacity of our new ministers; an expedient which they cannot, indeed, claim the honour of inventing, but which appears so conformable to the rest of their conduct, and so agreeable to their principles, that I doubt

Hoffman generously acknowledged to the hearers that what had been delivered was strictly conformable with Scripture doctrine, and that he united most fully with it.

The wretched inhabitants take refuge on the sand-hills, or in little huts, which they construct on the summits of lofty stakes, whose elevation is conformable to that of the highest tides.

It was, in fact, quite conformable to the principle of statuquoantebellum, adopted toward France.

His conduct was conformable to the character of his whole race, and to his own reputation during a long series of service with the British army in the Spanish peninsula.

Wherein they differ from those of substances, which carry with them the supposition of some real being, from which they are taken, and to which they are conformable.

For the Originals of our mixed Modes, we look no further than the Mind; which also shows them to be the Workmanship of the Understanding. Conformable also to what has been said concerning the essences of the species of mixed modes, that they are the creatures of the understanding rather than the works of nature; conformable, I say, to this, we find that their names lead our thoughts to the mind, and no further.

For the Originals of our mixed Modes, we look no further than the Mind; which also shows them to be the Workmanship of the Understanding. Conformable also to what has been said concerning the essences of the species of mixed modes, that they are the creatures of the understanding rather than the works of nature; conformable, I say, to this, we find that their names lead our thoughts to the mind, and no further.

But the sorting of things by us, or the making of determinate species, being in order to naming and comprehending them under general terms, I cannot see how it can be properly said, that Nature sets the boundaries of the species of things: or, if it be so, our boundaries of species are not exactly conformable to those in nature.

He takes care that his idea be conformable to this archetype, and intends the name should stand for an idea so conformable. 47.

He takes care that his idea be conformable to this archetype, and intends the name should stand for an idea so conformable. 47.

because the ideas they stand for are supposed conformable to the reality of things, and are referred to as standards made by Nature.

Who is there that has been bred up in the Peripatetick philosophy, who does not think the Ten Names, under which are ranked the Ten Predicaments, to be exactly conformable to the nature of things?

These words men have learned from their very entrance upon knowledge, and have found their masters and systems lay great stress upon them: and therefore they cannot quit the opinion, that they are conformable to nature, and are the representations of something that really exists.

Though it be a defect that has its original in our ideas, which are not so conformable to the nature of things as attention, study and application might make them, yet it fails not to extend itself to our words too, when we use them as signs of real beings, which yet never had any reality or existence.

And distinct and conformable ideas in Words that stand for Substances.

In these the names must also be CONFORMABLE TO THINGS AS THEY EXIST; but of this I shall have occasion to speak more at large by and by.

He subscribed the engagement, and, though he openly explained it in a sense conformable to his own principles, yet the parliament made to him out of the forfeited lands of the deans and chapters the grant[b] of a valuable estate, as a compensation for the cruel treatment which he had formerly suffered from the court of the Star-Chamber.

This degree of culture was conformable to my nature, and I had become strengthened in it long before I had reached my sixtieth year.

And in settling with ourselves whether propositions purporting to state matters of fact are trim or not, we have to consider how far they are conformable to the evidence.

The history of civilisation is the history of the displacement of old conceptions by new ones more conformable to the facts.

You would have, of course, to go in disguise, and to accept any situation which might appear conformable to your character and add to your safety.

THE HOLY BIBLE; containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, the text conformable to that, of the edition of 1611.