What is "conformably"

Usage examples of "conformably".

From Sextus, a benevolent disposition, and the example of a family governed in a fatherly manner, and the idea of living conformably to nature.

Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear: for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected.

And this means, if thou wilt take no notice of all the past, and trust the future to providence, and direct the present only conformably to piety and justice.

With respect to that which happens conformably to nature, we ought to blame neither gods, for they do nothing wrong either voluntarily or involuntarily, nor men, for they do nothing wrong except involuntarily.

Can any one hurt your choice, or restrain you from treating conformably to nature the appearances that are presented to you?

And if you would be so obliging some day as to favour us with a display, we'd head a cap conformably, whether you'd the best of it, according to your expectations, or t' other way:--For there never was shame in a jolly good licking as the song says: that is, if you take it and make it appear jolly good.

Are not you satisfied with performing these actions conformably to what you have read?

That we have neither read nor written, in order to treat the appearances that occur to us, conformably to nature, in our behaviour.

But if he refers his labour to his ruling faculty, in order to treat and regulate it conformably to nature, then only I call him industrious.

So that when you behave conformably to nature in the use of these appearances, you will be elated with reason.

But it is also incumbent on every one to offer libations and sacrifices and first fruits, conformably to the customs of his country, with purity, and not in a slovenly manner, nor negligently, nor sparingly, nor beyond his ability.

The many cases on record of a formation conformably covered, after an enormous interval of time, by another and later formation, without the underlying bed having suffered in the interval any wear and tear, seem explicable only on the view of the bottom of the sea not rarely lying for ages in an unaltered condition.

One, who in our climate, should expect better weather in any week of June than in one of December, would reason justly, and conformably to experience.

The voice further said that they were to return to Babylon, and, conformably to the decrees of fate, disinter the writings buried at Sippara in order to transmit them to men.