Meanings of more conformable in English

There are virtues which, in some respects, are more conformable to our taste.

The double form makes reflection easier and more conformable to experience, and also more comprehensive.

The battle was slow and more conformable to the wish of the dictator than of Hannibal.

A brisker movement is sometimes adopted which proves more conformable to the taste of the English spectators.

For these abuses the revolution substituted a system more conformable with justice, and better suited to our times.

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

Sir William Harcourt, though hardly less discontented, was openly more conformable, and towards the close of 1873 took office as Solicitor- General.

If, Lovelace, thou laughest at me, thy ridicule will be more conformable to thy actions than to thy belief.-Devilsbelieve and tremble.

The constitutional clergy followed a plan more conformable to the gospel, which gained them the affection of the well-disposed part of the nation.

He rendered the Slavic characters more conformable to the Latin, and these letters, then generally adopted, continue in use at the present time.

Nothing could be more conformable with the intentions and power of France than to cease a flagrant violation of the rights of nations.

There is not one of these doctrines that has not now been recast, softened down, mysticised, allegorised into something more conformable with modern thinking.

This idea is also more conformable to the vast law which restores to us, one by one, the gods wherewith we had filled the world.