agree ance

[AGREE.] Accommodation, accordance, reconciliation, agreement. ( Bou cher.) (Scotch. ) "The committee of estates of Parliament travail between them for agree ance , but no settling.". Spalding: Hist ., 1. 33%, "God, who is a Father to both, send them good agree ance."- Baillie : Letters , 1. 91. a-grēed', pa. par. & a. [AGREE, V.] 1. As past participle : IMG:content-0292.png:[blocks in formation] (a) Identity of sentiments among different minds. "Close investigation, in most cases, will bring naturalists to an agreement how to rank doubtful forms."-Darwin: Origin of Species , ch. ii. (b) Mutual stipulation with regard to any matter; a bargain, a compact, a contract. "Three times they breathed, and three times did they drink, Upon agreement , of swift Severn's flood." Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt. 1., 1. 8. We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement...."-/ st . xxviii. 15. thus saith the king of As syria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me."-2 Kings xviii. 31. (c) Concord, harmony. what fellowship hath righteousne with unrighteousne ? and what communion hath light with darkne ? and what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he which believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?"-2 Cor . vi. 16. 2. Of things : Resemblance, likene , similitude; consistency, harmony. "There will therefore be a competition between the known points of agreement and the known points of difference in A and B."-J. S. Mill : Logic , vol. ii., ch. xx., p. 102. either there will be no agreement between them, or the agreement will be the effect of design."Paley: Horæ Paulinæ , ch. 1. III. The thing or things agreed to, specially the document in which the stipulations are committed to writing, as "Have you forgotten to bring the agreement with you?" B. Technically : 1. Law : A contract, legally binding on the parties making it. [The same as A., II. 1 (6).] " Agreement , or contract; that is to say, the making a promise between two or more persons, upon the understanding that it is regarded as legally binding." -Bowring: Bentham's Works , i. 340. An agreement executory: One to be performed at a future time. 2. Gram.: Concord. [CONCORD.] *a-grēf, *a-grēf'e, adv . [AGREEF.] *a-greg, * a-grēge, a-grēd'ģe, * aggreg'e, ag-grěg'-gyn, v.t. [A.N. In Fr. agréger is to admit into a society.] Το increase, to aggravate. "By wilful malice to aggrege their grevance." Bochas, bk. iii. "And therefore a venge a unce is not warished by another venge a unce, ne a wrong by another wrong, but everich of hem encreaseth and aggregete other." Chaucer: Tale of Melibeus .