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concurrence|kənˈkʌrəns|
Also 7 -ance.
[ad. med.L. concurrentia, f. concurrĕre (see concur); or perh. immed. from concurrent: see -ence. In Fr. concurrent occurs from the 15th c. onward.]
†1. Running together, confluence; meeting. Obs.
1634–5Brereton Trav. (1844) 125 There is a concurrence and confluence of three strong tides. a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts 165 Where to place that concurrence of waters.
†b. Confluence of people; concourse, meeting.
1632Lithgow Trav. v. 201 It is both large and populous..which draweth a concurrance of all nations to it. a1639Wotton in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 221 He drew a great concurrence, from that Kingdom. 1675Ogilby Brit. Introd. 8 Through which Passage a numerous Concurrence doth pass.
c. The meeting of lines, surfaces, etc.; in mod. Geom. the point of meeting of three or more lines.
1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 184 Two strait lines, which are applied to one another..may be separated..in such manner, that their concurrence in one point will still remain. 1658A. Fox tr. Wurtz' Surg. iii. xiv. 260 This Symptome befals..all other joint wounds..where there is a concurrence of sinews and muscles. 1709Berkeley Th. Vision §5 The concurrence of the optic axes. 1881J. Casey Sequel to Euclid 10 The point of concurrence of perpendiculars from the angles on the opposite sides.
2. Occurrence together in time, of events or circumstances; coincidence; a juncture.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. ii. §2 So in states, arms and learning..have a concurrence or near sequence in times. 1647May Hist. Parl. ii. i. 1 In such a concurrence of high affairs..nothing was so irksome to the people as delay. 1711Addison Spect. No. 257 ⁋8 Our Behaviour in every Concurrence of Affairs. 1756Johnson Let. to J. Warton 15 Apr. in Boswell, Except there be a lucky concurrence of a postday with a holiday. 1805Foster Ess. iii. ii. 27 The most opportune concurrence of circumstances. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. App. 434 We have established the concurrence of the phænomena of cleavage and pressure.
b. Eccl. (See quot. 1879.)
1863Neale Ess. Liturg. 112. 1879 Mrq. Bute tr. Roman Breviary I. p. xix, By Concurrence (as opposed to Occurrence, which is two Offices falling on the same day), is meant the case of the Second Vespers of one Office falling on the same evening as the First Vespers of another. 1889Sarum Dioc. Kalendar, Tables of rules for Occurrences and Concurrences.
3. Combination in effecting any purpose or end, or in doing any work; co-operation of agents or causes.
1525Bp. of Bath in Ellis Orig. Lett. ii. 87. I. 309 The Pope of Rome was never lyke a Pope tyll he had the concurrence off other Princes. a1631Donne in Select. (1840) 83 Concurrence, and co-operation to our own salvation. 1635Swan Spec. M. v. §2 (1643) 143 When there is a more unusuall concurrence of causes. 1711Addison Spect. No. 112 ⁋7 Their mutual Concurrence in doing good. 1855Bain Senses & Int. ii. i. (1864) 85 The organization of the nervous centres, for the performance of actions requiring the concurrence of several of them.
4. Accordance, agreement; assent, consent.
1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. Introd. 1, I found a general concurrence of the Learned. 1794Paley Evid. i. ix. §6 Their [Christians'] concurrence in the Canon of Scripture is remarkable. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. vii, He signified his concurrence in the views advanced.
‖5. Pursuit of the same object; rivalry, competition. (Now a Gallicism: cf. concurrent B 2.)
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 434 Appius Claudius was in election and concurrence against him for the office of Censourship. 1832Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 57 The arguments against competition (concurrence)..all finally come aground on this rock. 1866Lecky Ration. II. 380 To reduce, by increased concurrence, the wages of the remainder. 1873Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country 264 What say you..To trying a concurrence with La Roche, And laying down a rival oyster-bed?
6. = concurrency 4.
1809Tomlins Law Dict. s.v. Court, The Archdeacon's Court..jurisdiction is sometimes in concurrence with, sometimes in exclusion of, the Bishop's Court of the diocese. |