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concurrent, a. and n.|kənˈkʌrənt| Also 5–7 -ant, 6 -aunt(e. [ad. L. concurrent-em, pr. pple. of concurrĕre: see concur and -ent. Concurrens was common as an adj. in med.L., and concurrent was used in Fr. from 13th c. French influence is perh. accountable for the early spelling -a(u)nt.] A. adj. 1. Running together in space, as parallel lines; going on side by side, as proceedings; occurring together, as events or circumstances; existing or arising together; conjoint, associated.
1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 32 §1 Every other thing concurrant that in that partie were requisite. 1534Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) B iij, Nor all the philosophers..were concurrant in one time, but after the death of one good, an nother came better. 1547Boorde Brev. Health Pref. 4 Yf..it have any other infirmytie concurrant with it. 1578Banister Hist. Man i. 29 A broad, and deepe cauitie..through the which are concurrent, not a small number of tendons. 1622Bacon Hen. VII, 3 There were..concurrent in his Person, three severall Titles to the Imperiall Crowne. 1667Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual., Forms which..may be as fitly styl'd Coordinate or concurrent. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 6 The concurrent voices of both sexes. 1844Williams Real Prop. Law (1877) 175 The concurrent existence of two distinct systems of jurisprudence was a peculiar feature of English Law. 1878Glen Public Health Act 1875 vi. (ed. 9) 254 Concurrent rates for repairs of Highways are invalid if made for the same period of time. b. Meeting in or tending to the same point; esp. in modern Geom. of three or more lines.
a1721Prior Conversation 32 Like lines concurrent to their center. 1879Ruskin Lett. to Clergy 44 The pressure of the concurrent crowd. 1881J. Casey Sequel to Euclid 3 When three or more lines pass through the same point they are said to be concurrent. 1885C. Leudesdorf Cremona's Proj. Geom. 155 If then four concurrent straight lines..are given. 2. Acting in conjunction; co-operating; contributing to the same effect.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 583/2 Manne can not tourne vnto him without..concurraunte helpe of goddes especial grace. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde 137 Thre principal partes concurrent to the same. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 342 It is reall Baptism that is here mentioned, the Spirit being spoken of as a concurrent cause. 1706De Foe Jure Div. xi. 246 Concurrent Parliament supports his Throne. 1875H. E. Manning Mission H. Ghost ii. 36 He..gives them the concurrent assistance of His own power. 3. Accordant, agreeing, consistent, harmonious; expressing concurrence.
1542Boorde Dyetary x. (1870) 252 The contrarye vsage, whiche is not concurraunt with nature. 1556J. Heywood Spider & F. xxiv. 76 This case to lordes and tenauntes is concurrant. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 145 A concurrent consent of all Histories. 1762J. Brown Poetry & Mus. iv. (1763) 42 By Shouts of Sympathy or concurrent Approbation. 1772Sir W. Jones Ess. i. (1777) 164 The beauties of Yemen are proved by the concurrent testimony of all travellers. 1866J. Martineau Ess. I. 136 The results are remarkable and concurrent. 4. Law. Covering the same ground (hence, in the case of titles = conflicting); having authority or jurisdiction on the same matters; co-ordinate.
1531Dial. Laws Eng. i. ix. (1638) 20 If two titles be concurrent together..the eldest title shall be preferred. 1579Fenton Guicciard. (1618) 172 They had made the Count Rainuce concurrant with him in authoritie. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 513 The chancery has a concurrent jurisdiction with them. 1768Ibid. III. 40 In some of them the king's bench has also a concurrent authority. 1861May Const. Hist. (1863) I. vii. 462 Differences between concurrent jurisdictions, which no other power was competent to reconcile. b. concurrent lease: a lease made before another is expired, and so existing for part of the time side by side with the other.
1622James I Instruct. conc. Bps. (T.), Every bishop, that shall be nominated by us to another bishoprick, shall..not presume to make any..concurrent lease. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 321 Where there is an old lease in being, no concurrent lease shall be made, unless where the old one will expire within three years. 1848Wharton Law Lex. 365/1 If a lease be made for life or years, to one, and afterwards the lessor make a lease for years, to another, the second lease is a concurrent lease..if the first lease be for twenty years, and the second lease be for thirty years, and both begin at one time, the second lease is good for the last ten years. c. Fire Insurance. Used to signify that all the Companies insuring a particular risk have accepted equal or proportionate amounts of the total sum insured, and have adopted precisely similar policy wordings, clauses, and warranties, so that in the event of fire, all shall be assessed on one identical basis in the determination of their various contributory proportions of the loss.
1873Walford Insur. Cycl., Concurrent Policies..are such as are concurrent as regards property covered without reference to average or other conditions. 1890Lett. from Western Assurance Co. of Toronto has the phrases ‘{pstlg}80,000 total concurrent insurance allowed’; ‘other insurances (concurrent in form) permitted without notice’, etc. B. n. 1. A concurrent circumstance, a contributory cause.
[1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) iv. xxi. 259 Whan all these condycyons shall be togyder and concurentes.] 1667Decay Chr. Piety vi. §19. 256 Consider how few steps he has to the end of his unhappy journey, though no extrinsic concurrent should hasten his pace. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Lect. Metaph. (1877) I. iii. 59 Each of these three concurrents must be considered as a partial cause, for, abstract any one, and the effect is not produced. 2. A rival claimant, a competitor. Now rare (exc. as a Gallicism).
1581Savile Tacitus' Hist. iii. xxxviii. 137 Your maiesty..nourisheth a concurrent [æmulum]. 1602Carew Cornwall (1723) 154 a, S. Michaels Mount, looketh so aloft, as it brooketh no concurrent, for the highest place. a1670Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 313 A Rebel, that had set up a concurrent against his lawful King. 1747Carte Hist. Eng. I. 553 He could scarce keep his ground against his concurrent for the throne. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. I. 239 Like..his unknown concurrents in Germany. 1865Morning Star 12 Dec., The Opposition favourite must, in the long run, beat all concurrents. †3. A person or thing coexistent or contemporary with another. Obs.
1622Bacon Hen. VII Wks. (1860) 478 If a man should compare him with the kings his concurrents in France and Spain. 1668Howe Bless. Righteous (1825) 126 But besides what it carries in itself, there are other (more extrinsical) concurrents that do further signalize this season. 4. Sc. Law. One who accompanies a sheriff's-officer as witness or assistant.
1815Scott Guy M. xxxiii, ‘Mac Guffog, the thief-taker, and twa or three concurrents, had a man in hands in the kitchen’. 1816― Antiq. xli, ‘I ken it frae ane o' his concurrents, as they ca' them, that's warned to meet him.’ 5. In the Calendar: †a. = epact 1 b. Obs. rare.
1561Eden Arte Nauig. ii. vi. 30 b, The concurrent of euery yeare, is the number of the dayes passed of the coniunction of the Moone at the begynnyng of Marche. Ibid. 31 This nomber of Epact or concurrent is founde. b. ‘One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks;—so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow’ (Webster). †6. Used to render med.L. Concorezzenses, a subdivision of the Albigenses in 12–13th c., named from Concorezzo or Concoreggio in Italy: see Mosheim, 12th Cent., I. v. §5. Obs.
1580Fulke Stapleton Confut. (Parker Soc.) 77 The Protestants are at great variance among themselves; not for learnings sake, as the Concurrents in Italy. ¶ A false singular from concurrents, erroneous form of concurrence: cf. accidence.
1605Camden Rem. (1637) 266 Whoeuer will..consider the comportment of the English nation, the concurrent of martial men. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (1st ed. 1641) in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 174 The concurrent [ed. 1653 current] of her fame carries it to this day. 1635Swan Spec. M. (1670) 40 By their help and concurrant. |