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▪ I. † coˈmmode, a. Obs. Chiefly 18th c.
[a. Fr. commode, ad. L. commod-us that has due measure, suitable, convenient, accommodating, etc., f. com- together + mod-us measure, due measure: see mode.]
1. Convenient, opportune, suitable.
1637Heylin Answ. Burton 163 This is the place..so pricked and commode, as I finde it in the..said olde booke. 1668A. Behn Oroonoko Wks. 1871 I. 164 We were dressed, so as is most commode for the hot countries. 1740H. Walpole Let. H.S. Conway 9 July, A vast palace..vastly commode especially to the cicisbeo-part of mankind.
2. Of persons: Accommodating; gen. in a bad sense. Const. to.
1722Steele Consc. Lovers v. iii, One of those Commode Ladies who lend out Beauty, for Hire. 1728Vanbr. & Cib. Prov. Husb. iv. i, So Sir! am not I very commode to you? 1760C. Johnston Chrysal (1822) I. 188 The commode matrons, and compliant fair.
▪ II. commode, n.|kəˈməʊd|
Also 7 comode.
[a. Fr. commode (in Littré in senses 1 and 3), subst. use of adj. commode: see prec.]
1. A tall head-dress fashionable with women in the last third of the 17th and first third of the 18th centuries, consisting of a wire frame-work variously covered with silk or lace; sometimes with streaming lappets which hung over the shoulders.
a1688Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Milit. Couple Wks. (1775) 128 At last the knight..struck off her commode. 1692D'Urfey Marriage Hater Prol. 55 Wir'd Comode..Cock'd Three Stories high. 1706E. Ward Hud. Rediv. I. x. 7 Stiff Commodes in Triumph star'd Above their Foreheads half a Yard. a1717Parnell Allegory on Man 28 Nor with long streets and longer roads Dangling behind her, like commodes. 1730Mrs. Delany Autobiog. & Corr. I. 238 They would be as awkward here as if I was to wear a commode. 1876J. R. Planché Cycl. Costume I. 130. 1883 Ashton Soc. Life Q. Anne 123 The commode..originated in the court of Lewis XIV and was there called a fontange because it had been introduced by Mlle. Fontange.
†2. [cf. commode a. 2.] A procuress, bawd. Obs.
1721Cibber Cæsar Epil., Was it not Bold..to..make the Tragic Muse commode to Love. 1753Foote Eng. in Paris i. (1763) 23 A pretty Lodging we have hit upon; the Mistress a Commode, and the Master a―.
3. A piece of furniture with drawers and shelves; in the bedroom, a sort of elaborate chest of drawers (so in Fr.); in the drawingroom, a large (and gen. old-fashioned) kind of chiffonier.
1786F. Tytler in Lounger No. 79 ⁋5 A labyrinth of chests of drawers, commodes, cabinets and boxes. 1823Scott Let. 29 Oct. in Lockhart, We did not open Mr. Baldock's commode..Lady Scott, the party most interested in the drawing room, thinks mirrors..better things. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 353 An indescribable piece of furniture called a commode, consisting of three drawers of dark mahogany, perched upon long legs, and surmounted by four shelves enclosed within glass doors. 1862H. Aïdé Carr of Carrlyon II. 171 A few rickety chairs and tables, beds, and commodes. 1890Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 25 Feb. 1/3 We place on sale a Bedroom Suit..It has the wide French bureau and the 1890 English commode.
4. A small article of furniture enclosing a chamber utensil; a close-stool.
1851Times 1 Apr. 11/4 Inodorous chamber commodes affording great comfort to invalids. 1877Pall Mall G. 4 Mar. 11/2 At the corner of this passage..is a commode for the use of the women.
5. attrib. and Comb., as commode box.
1693Lond. Gaz. No. 2832/4 A Commode Box with a Head-dress.
▪ III. † coˈmmode, v. Obs.
[ad. L. commodāre to suit, etc., f. commod-us suitable: see commode a.]
a. To suit.
b. To fit or furnish with (something appropriate).
c. To put in order, repair (cf. accommodate 8).
1658R. Franck North. Mem. (1821) 68 By noon..the tide will commode us for our northern passage. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 37 Modern Architects..have thought fit to commode every Order of Columns with a proportionate Pedestal. Ibid. 53 Scamozzi was the first that commoded Columnations with Pedestals. 1765Projects in Ann. Reg. 170/2 It would help to preserve and commode the roads. |