Agreement
Agreement
#23. Agreement. -- N. agreement; accord, accordance; unison, harmony;
concord &c. 714; concordance, concert; understanding, mutual understanding.
- conformity &c. 82; conformance; uniformity &c. 16; consonance,
consentaneousness[obs], consistency; congruity, congruence; keeping;
congeniality; correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union.
- fitness, aptness &c. adj.; relevancy; pertinence, pertinencey[obs];
sortance|; case in point; aptitude, coaptation[obs], propriety,
applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility; cognation
&c. (relation) 9.
- adaption[obs], adjustment, graduation, accommodation; reconciliation,
reconcilement; assimilation.
- consent &c. (assent) 488; concurrence &c. 178; cooperation &c. 709.
- right man in the right place, very thing,; quite the thing, just the
thing.
- V. be accordant &c. adj.; agree, accord, harmonize; correspond, tally,
respond; meet, suit, fit, befit, do, adapt itself to; fall in with, chime
in with, square with, quadrate with, consort with, comport with; dovetail,
assimilate; fit like a glove, fit to a tittle, fit to a T; match &c. 17;
become one; homologate[obs].
- consent &c. (assent) 488.
- render accordant &c. adj.; fit, suit, adapt, accommodate; graduate;
adjust &c. (render, equal) 27; dress, regulate, readjust; accord,
harmonize,. reconcile; fadge[obs], dovetail, square.
- Adj. agreeing, suiting &c. v.; in accord, accordant, concordant,
consonant, congruous, consentaneous[obs], correspondent, congenial;
coherent; becoming; harmonious reconcilable, conformable; in accordance
with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with, &c. n.; at one
with, of one mind, of a piece[Fr]; consistent, compatible, proportionate;
commensurate; on all fours.
- apt, apposite, pertinent, pat; to the point, to the purpose; happy,
felicitous, germane, ad rem[Lat], in point, on point, directly on point,
bearing upon, applicable, relevant, admissible.
- fit adapted, in loco, a propos[Fr], appropriate, seasonable, sortable,
suitable, idoneous[obs], deft; meet &c. (expedient) 646.
- at home, in one's proper element.
- Adv. a propos of[Fr]; pertinently &c. adj.
- Phr. rem acu tetigisti[Lat][obs]; if the shoe fits, wear it; the cap
fits; auxilia humilia firma consensus facit [Lat][Syrus]; discers concordia
[Lat][Ovid].