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Agreed   /əgrˈid/   Listen
verb
Agree  v. t.  
1.
To make harmonious; to reconcile or make friends. (Obs.)
2.
To admit, or come to one mind concerning; to settle; to arrange; as, to agree the fact; to agree differences. (Obs.)



Agree  v. i.  (past & past part. agreed; pres. part. agreeing)  
1.
To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law. "If music and sweet poetry agree." "Their witness agreed not together." "The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you."
2.
To yield assent; to accede; followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to opinion.
3.
To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise. "Agree with thine adversary quickly." "Didst not thou agree with me for a penny?"
4.
To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond; as, the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.
5.
To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution.
6.
(Gram.) To correspond in gender, number, case, or person. Note: The auxiliary forms of to be are often employed with the participle agreed. "The jury were agreed." "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" The principal intransitive uses were probably derived from the transitive verb used reflexively. "I agree me well to your desire."
Synonyms: To assent; concur; consent; acquiesce; accede; engage; promise; stipulate; contract; bargain; correspond; harmonize; fit; tally; coincide; comport.






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"Agreed" Quotes from Famous Books



... settlers to decamp after spoiling the Egyptians. The thankless duty of evacuation devolved on Brigadier-General Maitland, who carried it out with skill and patience. Especially admirable is his secret bargain with Toussaint, whereby that able chief agreed not to molest the British either in Hayti or in Jamaica, while in return he was to receive provisions at certain ports under his control. Ministers had not advised any such proceeding, but they cordially approved of it, despite ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose

... agreed the doctor, "but one of them anyway was quite harmless. The R.C. padre spoke very little, ate an enormous amount, and listened with infinite contempt to the discussions of ...
— General Bramble • Andre Maurois

... among all Philosophers of the Mind, not four or five hundred, but like the Alphabetic Sounds of Language, a mere handful in number. Precisely how many they are and how they are best distributed has not been agreed upon. Aristotle classed them as Ten. Kant tells us there are Twelve only of the Categories of the Understanding. Spencer, while finding the Ultimate of Ultimates in the idea of Force alone, admits its immediate expansion into ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, October, 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... required two shikaris, so I imagined that while I was to be engaged with one in pursuit of bara singh, the other would employ himself in "rounding up" a few tigers for the next day's sport in another direction. Ahmed Bot agreed with me in the main, but did not feel at all sure ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne

... he had lived among gentlemen, and had caught something of their manner. He said that, after all, virtue was a mere name, and that when people were powerful and rich, the world respected them more than if they had been honest and poor. Sarah agreed with this sentiment. Her grandfather was honest and poor, and yet nobody respected him—at least, not with such respect as she cared to acknowledge. In addition to his talent for argument, Lemoine was handsome and had money—he ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke


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