Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CON-FORM'
CON-FORM', v.t. [L. conformo; con and formo, to form, or shape, from forma, form.]
- To make like, in external appearance; to reduce to a like shape, or form, with something else; with to; as, to conform any thing to a model.
- More generally, to reduce to a likeness or correspondence in manners, opinions or moral qualities. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son. – Rom. viii. Be not conformed to this world. – Rom. xii.
- To make agreeable to; to square with a rule or directory. Demand of them why they conform not themselves to the order of the church? – Hooker.
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