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t. & i. [Fr. agréer = to accept with favour, to consent to, to agree: gre will, pleasure, favour; Prov. agreiar = to agree; Sp. agradar to please; Port. agradar = (1) to be pleased; (2) to please; Ital, aggradire = to accept, to receive kindly; Lat. grat us = acceptable, pleasing. In Lat. gratia grace, favour.] [GRACE, GRATEFUL.] A. Transitive: 1. To please. "If harme agre me, whereto plaine I thenne." Chaucer: Troilus, bk. 1., 410. 2. To put an end to a controversy or quarrel; to carry by unanimous concurrence a point which has been debated; to a ent to. "He saw from far, or seemed for to see, Some troublous uprore or contentious fray, Whereto he drew in hast it to agree." Spenser: F. Q., II. iv. 3. 3. To make friends, to reconcile, without implying that there has been marked variance previously; also to make up one's mind. "The mighty rivals, whose destructive rage Did the whole world in civil arms engage, Are now agreed. Roscommon . "Can two walk together, except they be agreed 1" Amos iii. 3. B. Intransitive: I. Of persons or other beings po e ed of feel ings and a will: 1. To be pleased with, and to be prepared to grant, admit, accept with favour, a ent, or consent to a proposition, opinion, measure, or project submitted to one, joining, if called upon, in carrying it out in action. Followed by to of the thing to which a ent or consent is given. "And persuaded them to agree to all reasonable conditions."-2 Maccabees xi. 14. 2. To concur in an opinion or measure, to enter into a stipulation or join in a course of action; to come to an accommodation with an adversary, it not being implied whether the sentiments or proposals were made to or by one. Followed by with of the person or persons, and in , on , upon, as touching , an infinitive, or a clause of a sentence introducing or expre ing the thing concurred in. (a) Of concurrence in an opinion or mea sure. "The two historians differ in their accounts as to the number agreed on for the consular tribunes, "Lewis: Early Roman Hist . , ch. xii., § 56. "In the cases which have been mentioned, all parties seem to have agreed in thinking that some public reparation was due."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xiv. To agree to differ is to consent to a friend or acquaintance differing in opinion from one on certain points, and tacitly stipulate that no breach of friendly intercourse shall thence arise. "They could, therefore, preserve harmony only by agreeing to differ."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xi. IMG:content-0291.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To live in harmony or free from contention with one, it not being implied that there has been previous variance. " Gob . How dost thou and thy master agree ! I have brought him a present? How 'gree you now?" Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , ii. 2. "The more you agree together the le hurt can your enemies do you."- Brown : View of Epic Poetry. "Still may our souls, O generous youth! agree." Pope: Homer's Iliad, bk. xxiii., 685 4. To resemble one another. "He exceedingly provoked or underwent the envy, and reproach, oach, and malice of men of all qualities and conditions, who agreed in nothing else."-Clarendon. IL. Of things: 1. To harmonise with, to correspond with, to be consistent with. thou art a Galilæan, and thy speech agreeth thereto." Mark xiv. 70. "A body of tradition, of which the members, drawn from scattered quarters, agree with one and ther, and agree also with the general probability that arises."Gladstone: Studies on Homer, 1. 49. "But neither so did their witne agree together." Mark xiv. 59. 2. To resemble, to be similar to. [For an analogous example, see I. 4.] 3. To be suitable to, to be adapted for, to befit. "Luc. Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing; Confederate season, else no creature seeing." Shakesp. Hamlet, iii. 2 "Many a matter hath he told to thee, Meet, and agreeing with thine infancy." Shakesp. Titus Andron., V. 3. 4. To be nutritious to, to be in no danger of exciting disease in. "I have often thought that our prescribing a es' milk in such small quantities is injudicious, for unubtedly, with such as it agrees with, it would per form much greater and quicker effects in greater quantities"-Arbuthnot on Coins. * a-gree', adv. [AGRE, adv.]