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commodious
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Definition:adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities;serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable;Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---1. suitable or convenient: roomy, spacious:2. serviceable: comfortable.Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908)
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I heard a very warm debate between two professors, about the most commodious and effectual ways and means of raising money, without grieving the subject.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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The inn was in fact commodious, by the standards I had grown accustomed to.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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whose eminently convenient and commodious business premises are situate within a hundred miles of the High Street.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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therefore, if instead of Glasses one did cast before ones eyes two Plates having little holes in them, it would furnish us with a new kind of Perspectives, more commodious than those of Glasses, which spoil the Sight by reason of the refraction of the Rayes, caused thereby.
The Royal Society. Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies,and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume I (1666)
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Corny might have given us a more commodious yoke, Mr. Power said.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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