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▪ I. † conˈgrue, a. Obs.
Also 5–6 congru, -grew(e.
[a. F. congru, -grue (15th c. in Littré), ad. L. congru-us agreeing, suitable, harmonious, f. stem of congru-ĕre: see next.]
1. Agreeable to the character or nature of anything; fitting, suitable, becoming, due, proper.
c1400Apol. Loll. 30 It semiþ hem to preche, it is profit to bles, it is congrew to sacre. 1485Caxton St. Wenefr. 3 She had not tyme congrue to fulfylle it. a1502Arnolde Chron. (1811) 28 The Mayre, Aldirmen..may sette congrew remedy. 1542Becon Pathw. Prayer Wks. (1843) 143 The congrue, decent, and seemly worshipping of God. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 8/1 Setting all things in a congrue order.
2. = congruous 4.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ii. ii. (1495) 27 Noo reason is congrue in the whiche the nominatyf caas & the verbe dyscorde in nombre & in persone. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxlvi. 290 Congrewe Englysshe, or of parfyte sentence. 1531Elyot Gov. i. xv, Rules, wherby a childe shall..lerne to speake congrue latine. 1569Crowley Soph. Dr. Watson i. 57, I know not by what rule of Grammer, this can be iustified to be congrue latine.
▪ II. † congrue, v. Obs. rare.
[a. OF. congru-er or L. congru-ĕre to meet together, coincide, agree, correspond, accord; f. con- together + *gruĕre, not found exc. in this composition.]
intr. To agree, accord. (The Quarto reading in the two following passages of Shakespeare. The stress differs in the two quots.)
1600Shakes. Hen. V, i. ii. 182 (Qo.) Gouernment..being put into parts, Congrueth with a mutuall consent like musicke [1st Fo. congreeing, but context different]. 1603― Ham. iv. iii. 66 (Qq.) Our soueraigne processe, which imports at full, By letters congruing [Ff. conjuring] to that effect, The present death of Hamlet. |