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.
1637. Heylin, Answ. Burton, 163. This is the place … so pricked and commode, as I finde it in the said olde booke.
1668. Mrs. Behn, Oroonoko, Wks. 1871, I. 164. We were dressed, so as is most commode for the hot countries.
1740. H. Walpole, Lett. 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.
1722. Steele, Consc. Lovers, V. iii. One of those Commode Ladies who lend out Beauty, for Hire.
1728. Vanbr. & Cib., Prov. Husb., IV. i. So Sir! am not I very commode to you?
1760. C. Johnston, Chrysal (1822), I. 188. The commode matrons, and compliant fair.
