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coincide, v.|kəʊɪnˈsaɪd|
[a. F. coïncide-r (14th c. in Littré), ad. med.L. coincidĕre, f. co- together + incidĕre to fall upon or into, to occur, happen. The med.L. occurs in Astrological use.
(In the 17th c. the L. form was used unchanged.)
a1641Bp. Mountagu A. & M. (1642) 134 The principall parts thereof must coincidere and accord. 1650Fuller Pisgah ii. ix. §36 Making three members..coincidere, to interfeer, yea run all into one. 1663Butler Hud. i. i. 726 For where the first does hap to be, The last does coincidere. )
Coincide and its derivatives are treated in a scholarly monograph by H. E. Shepherd, in the American Journal of Philology, vol. I. pp. 271–280, in which the history of the words in the mediæval Latin of Roger Bacon and the English writers of the 17th c. is traced with much fullness.]
1. intr. To fall together and agree in position; to occupy the same area or portion of space (as e.g. the superposed triangles in Euclid i. 8); to be identical in area and position. Said of points, lines, or any geometrical magnitudes.
1715Cheyne Philos. Princ. Relig. (J.), If the equator and ecliptick had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revolution of the earth useless. 1756Simson Euclid, Axiom 8 Magnitudes which coincide with one another, that is, which exactly fill the same space, are equal to one another. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 366 A plane..such as coincides with the curved surface of the earth. 1822J. Imison Sci. & Art I. 68 (ed. Webster) The centre of motion should coincide with the centre of gravity of the wheel. 1880Haughton Phys. Geog. vi. 275 The southern boundary coincides with the watershed of the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra.
2. To occur or happen at the same time; to occupy the same space of time.
1809Knox & Jebb Corr. I. 474 Abruptness of sentiment may very well coincide with length of line. 1862Stanley Jew. Ch. (1877) I. xvii. 322 The chief feast of the year..coincided with the Festival of the vintage.
3. To be identical in substance, nature, or character; to agree exactly, to be in precise harmony or accord with.
1705Berkeley Works 1871 IV. 442. 1705 W. Wollaston in Nichols Illustr. Lit. Hist. I. 201. 1722 ― Relig. Nat. iii. (R.), If..this obedience or practice of reason coincides with the observation of truth. 1726Butler Serm. xii. 253 Thus Morality and Religion, Virtue and Piety, will at last necessarily co-incide, run up into one and the same point. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. v. 104 The true interest of an absolute monarch generally coincides with that of his people. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. x. 440 The description coincides with the authentic letters of the visitors. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. iv. 169 His interest happily coincided with his duty.
4. Of persons: To accord or concur (in opinion, sentiment, etc.).
1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) VII. xvii. 322 The Archæans would not coincide with him in opinion. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India III. 268 The great majority..too apprehensive of the consequences of prohibition, to coincide in the recommendation. 1875Lyell Princ. Geol. I. i. v. 89 Whether we coincide or not in this doctrine.
†5. To fall in together; to collapse. Obs.
1673Grew Anat. Roots v. §8 Yet it [the pith] is not to be dryed, after cutting; Because its several parts, will thereupon coincide and become deformed. |