Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To agree; harmonize. Also spelled symphonise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb rare To agree; to be in harmony.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To agree; to be in harmony.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb play or sound together, in harmony

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Examples

  • Cage had a way to symphonize everything into beauty.

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  • If, however, he and his wife did not always symphonize, still, on the whole, they continued to work together amicably, for Mrs. Burton took considerable pains to accommodate herself to the peculiarities of her husband's temperament, and both were blessed with that invaluable oil for troubled waters -- the gift of humour.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

  • The Greek word for "agree" is _symphonize, _ and suggests a musical harmony where chords are tuned to the same key and struck by a master hand.

    George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God 1874

  • If two shall _accord_ {150} or _symphonize_ in what they ask, they have the promise of being heard.

    The Ministry of the Spirit 1865

  • Everyone can at some level symphonize with the unfortunate end of tradition, especially when it wasn't even necessary.

    Latest Daily Headlines Calvin Rowland 2008

  • If, however, he and his wife did not always symphonize, still, on the whole, they continued to work together amicably, for Mrs. Burton took considerable pains to accommodate herself to the peculiarities of her husband’s temperament, and both were blessed with that invaluable oil for troubled waters — the gift of humour.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • When Daniel Webster was a youth of eighteen, in college, he wrote to a friend these suggestive words: "I am fully persuaded that our happiness is much at our regulation, and that the 'Know thyself' of the Greek philosopher meant no more than rightly to attune and soften our appetites and passions till they should symphonize like the harp of

    The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 Various

  • If, however, he and his wife did not always symphonize, still, on the whole, they continued to work together amicably, for Mrs. Burton took considerable pains to accommodate herself to the peculiarities of her husband's temperament, and both were blessed with that invaluable oil for troubled waters ” the gift of humour.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

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