concupiscible ness (konkupisiblnes)

The state or quality of being concupiscible; concupiscence. [Rare.] concupyt (kon'kū-pi), n. A contraction of con cupiscence. He'll tickle it for his concuру. Shak., T. and C., v. 2. concur (kon-ker'), v. i.; pret. and pp. concurred, rence = Sp. concur ren cia = Pg. concur ren cia = It. concorrenza, concurrence, competition (cf. D. konkurrentie = G. concurrenz = Dan. kon kurrence, competition), And now it is easy to be observed, what a wonderful Concurrence of Fortunes, in behalf of the Duke of Lancaster, and against King Richard, happened together. Baker , Chronicles, p. 152. When God raises up a Nation to be a Scourge to other Nations, he inspires them with a new spirit and courage, and by a concurrence of some happy circumstances gives them strange succe beyond all their hopes and expectations. Stilling fleet, Sermons, II. iv. We have no other measure but of our own ideas, with the concurrence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke. 2. Joint approval or action; accordance in opinion or operation; acquiescence; contributory aid or influence. Tarquin the Proud was expelled by the universal concur rence of nobles and people. Swift , Contests of Nobles and Commons. We are to trust firmly in the Deity, but so as not to forget that he commonly works by second causes, and admits of our endeavours with his concurrence . Dryden, Ded. of the Duke of Guise. In the election of her [Poland's] kings, the concurrence or acquiescence of every individual of the nobles and gentry present, in an a embly numbering usually from one hundred and fifty to two hundred you sand, was required to make a choice. Calhoun , Works, I. 71. 3. A meeting or equivalency, as of claims or power: a term implying a point of equality between different persons or bodies: as, a concur rence of jurisdiction in two different courts.4. Eccles., immediate succe ion of two feasts or holy days, so that the second vespers of the first and the first vespers of the second coincide in time, and cannot both be observed. The difficulty is avoided either by translating, that is, transferring the le important feast to the first unoccupied day, or by saying the vespers of the greater feast with or without a commemoration of the le er. See occurrence. - Concurrence of actions, in Rom, law, the vesting of several causes of action in one person. It is either objective, when one plaintiff has several actions against the same defendant, or subjective, when an action may be brought by several plaintiffs against one defendant, or by one plaintiff against several defendants, or by several plaintiffs against several defendants. = Syn. 2. Consent, Acquiescence, etc. See a ent.