Dictionary entry

Conform (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Con‐form″, v. i. 1. To be in accord or harmony; to comply; to be obedient; to submit; — with to or with.

A rule to which experience must conform.

Whewell.

2. (Eng. Eccl. Hist.) To comply with the usages of the Established Church; to be a conformist.

About two thousand ministers whose consciences did not suffer them to conform were driven from their benefices in a day.

Macaulay.