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agreement|əˈgriːmənt|
Also 5–6 ag(g)rement.
[a. OFr. agreement, agrément, n. of action, f. agréer: see agree and -ment.]
The action or fact of agreeing.
†1. The action of pleasing or contenting; satisfaction. Obs.
1494Fabyan vi. ccxii. 227 After he had taryed here a certayne of tyme, to his agrement and pleasure.
†2. The action of consenting; consent. Obs.
1479Rokewoode in Bury Wills (1850) 52 As welle by my wylle as by the aggrement of the seid Alice and Robert. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 85/1 He receyuyd with hys agrement the gybet of the crosse.
†3. A setting at one; atonement (both in its earlier sense of reconciliation, and its later sense of propitiation, satisfaction). Obs.
1526Tindale 1 John iv. 10 Not that we loued God, but that he loued vs, and sent his sonne to make agrement for oure sinnes. 1535Coverdale Ps. xlviii. 7 No man may delyuer his brother, ner make agrement for him vnto God. ― Hebr. ii. 17 A faithfull hye prest in things concernynge God to make agrement for the synnes of y⊇ people. 1557N. T. (Genev.) 1 John iv. 10 And sent his sonne to make agrement for our sinnes [Rhem. and 1611 propitiation].
4. A coming into accord; an arrangement between two or more persons as to a course of action; a mutual understanding; a covenant, or treaty.
c1400Destr. Troy xix. 7827 Þe grekys by agrement of þe grete all, Sent to þe Cite soueran men two. 1523Ld. Berners Froissart I. cxv. 136 Were not of the agrement with the kyng. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. iii. 103 Three times did they drink Vpon agreement, of swift Severnes flood. 1611Bible Dan. xi. 6 The Kings daughter of the South shall come to the King of the North to make an agreement. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 296 We came to a good agreement with him for his reward. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. §10. 67 We accordingly entered into an agreement with our guide.
5. Law. A contract duly executed and legally binding on the parties making it.
1536in Thynne's Animadv. (1865) App. 28 In wittyness herof the saide John Wilkinson, to this agreament hath putte his merke. 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v., An Agreement executory is when both parties at one time are agreed, that such a thing shall be done in time to come. 1881F. Pollock Princ. Contract (ed. 3) 1 An agreement is, ‘An act in the law whereby two or more persons declare their consent as to any act or thing to be done or forborne by some or one of those persons for the use of the others or other of them.’
6. Accordance in sentiment, opinion, action, or purpose; harmony, concord; absence of dissension.
1528More Heresyes i. Wks. 1557, 170/1 The consent and comen agrement of the olde holy fathers. 1548Ld. Somerset Epist. to Scots 241 You loued better dissencion then vnitie, discorde then agremente. 1652J. Burroughes Exp. Hosea vi. 105 Agreement in errour is farre worse than division for the sake of truth. 1654Goddard in Burton Diary (1828) I. 155 He hath espoused Charles Stuart, with whom he is fully at agreement. 1692[Wagstaffe] Vind. Carol. i. 24 It is not the Crowd, but agreement makes the Company. 1771Junius Lett. lix. 307 Neither are we to look for perfection in any one man, nor for agreement among many.
7. Mutual conformity of things, whether due to likeness or to mutual adaptation; concord, harmony, affinity.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xliv. (1495) 567 Yren hath agrement with the stone Adamas, and so the stone Adamas draweth yren to itself. 1586T. B. tr. La Primaudaye's Fr. Acad. ii. (1594) 531 When the image hath some agreement in forme with the thing represented. 1611Bible 2 Cor. vi. 16 What agreement hath the Temple of God with idoles? 1790Paley Hor. Paul. i. Wks. 1825 III. 6 Agreement or conformity between letters bearing the name of an ancient author, and a received history of that author's life. 1855Brewster Newton II. xviii. 170 The agreement between his observations and the theory.
8. Gram. Concord: see agree v. 15.
1669Milton Gram. ii. Concords (1847) 468/1 The agreement of words together in number, gender, case, and person, which is called concord. 1879J. A. H. Murray Trans. Philol. Soc. 619 In the English ‘the men push the stone,’ we have neither formal expression of the destination [of the action] nor formal agreement of verb and subject.
9. Mostly pl. Agreeable qualities, circumstances, or accessories. Now treated as Fr., les agréments.
1692Dryden tr. St. Euremont's Ess. 376 The Charms and Agreements natural to Women. 1732Mrs. Delany Autobiog. (1861) I. 399 She has..all the agreement of embellishments that can be desired. 1737Warburton in Boswell's Johnson I. Introd. 50 The art of adding the agreements to the most agreeable subject in the world, which is literary history. |