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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agree.

Etymologies

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agree +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • [306] Parkinson said, "The country people sow it in the fields as food for their cattle, and call it 'tills', leaving out the 'lent', as thinking that word agreeth not with the matter."

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • But it is a safer conclusion to say, This agreeth not well with me, therefore,

    The Essays 2007

  • But finding those phrases in men's writings, and being not able or not willing to enter into a consideration of the circumstances, they mistake sometimes the precepts of counsellors for the precepts of them that command; and sometimes the contrary; according as it best agreeth with the conclusions they would infer, or the actions they approve.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Let him also see, and visit, eminent persons in all kinds, which are of great name abroad; that he may be able to tell, how the life agreeth with the fame.

    The Essays 2007

  • As it hath been clearly shown that God hath not a body, we must perforce explain all those passages whereof the literal sense agreeth not with the demonstration, for sure it is that they can be so explained.

    Theologico-Political Treatise 2007

  • The vulgar Latin hath it, regnum sacerdotale, to which agreeth the translation of that place, sacerdotium regale, a regal priesthood; 93 as also the institution itself, by which no man might enter into the sanctum sanctorum, that is to say, no man might enquire God's will immediately of God

    Leviathan 2007

  • And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilaean, and thy speech agreeth thereto.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

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