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Agreda
Encyclopedia Britannica
AGREDA, a town of Spain, in the province of Old Castile, 23 miles N.E. of Soria. It is the chief town of the mountainous district of the same name, and is built on the skirts of the Sierra Moncayo. At Agreda the river Queiles is crossed by a fine stone bridge of one arch. Population, 3120.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 1, p. 289
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1. To be of one mind; to harmonize in opinion.
2. In the expediency of the law, all the parties agree
3. To live in concord, or without contention; as, parents and children agree well together.
4. To yield assent; to approve or admit; followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to an opinion.
5. To settle by stipulation, the minds of parties being agreed, as to the terms; as,
7. To agree on articles of partnership
8. To come to a compromise of differences; to be reconciled.
9. AGREE with thy adversary quickly. Matthew 5:25
10. To come to one opinion or mind; to concur; as, to agree on a place of meeting.
11. This sense differs not essentially from the fourth, and it often implies a resolving to do an act. John 9:22 .
13. Their witness agreed not together. Mark 14:56 .
14. This story agrees with what has been related by others.
15. To resemble; to be similar; as, the picture does not agree with the original.
16. To suit; to be accommodated or adapted to; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution.
To admit, or come to one mind concerning; as, to agree the fact. Also, to reconcile or make friends; to put an end to variance; but these senses are unusual and hardly legitimate. Let the parties agree the fact, is really elliptical; let them agree on the fact.
In good part; kindly.
1. To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law.
2. To yield assent; to accede; -- followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to opinion.
3. To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
4. To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond; as, the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.
5. To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution.
6. To correspond in gender, number, case, or person.
1. To make harmonious; to reconcile or make friends.
2. To admit, or come to one mind concerning; to settle; to arrange; as, to agree the fact; to agree differences.
Easiness of disposition. [Not used.]
1. Easiness of disposition.
2. The quality of being, or making one's self, agreeable; agreeableness.
1. Suitable; conformable; correspondent; consistent with; as, the practice of virtue is agreeable to the law of God and our own nature.
2. In pursuance of; in conformity with; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the house took up the report of the committee. It is not correctly followed by with. In this sense, some writers use agreeably, for agreeable but in violation of the true principles of construction; for the word is an adjective or attribute, in agreement with the last clause of the sentence. The house took up the report of a committee, (which taking up was) agreeable to the order of the day. The use of agreeably in this sentence would pervert the sense.
3. Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; as, agreeable manners; fruit agreeable to the taste.
1. Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste.
2. Willing; ready to agree or consent.
3. Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with.
4. In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.
1. Suitableness; conformity; consistency; as, the agreeableness of virtue to the laws of God.
2. The quality of pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses; as, an agreeableness of manners; there is an agreeableness in the taste of certain fruits. This is the usual sense of the word.
3. Resemblance; likeness; with to or between; as,
4. The agreeableness between man and other parts of creation. obsolete
1. The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses.
2. The quality of being agreeable or suitable; suitableness or conformity; consistency.
3. Resemblance; concordance; harmony; -- with to or between.
1. Pleasingly; in an agreeable manner; in a manner to give pleasure; as, to be agreeably entertained with a discourse.
2. Suitably; consistently; conformably;
3. The effect of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, agreeably to the maxim above laid down.
4. This is a gross error, proceeding from mistake. agreeably signifies, in an agreeable manner; but this is not the sense, nor does the word modify the verb grow. The sense is, marriages grow less frequent, which [fact, or whole member of the sentence, or proposition] is agreeable to the maxim above laid down. This use of agreeably is common, but grossly erroneous.
5. Alike; in the same manner.
6. Both armed agreeably obsolete
1. In an agreeably manner; in a manner to give pleasure; pleasingly.
2. In accordance; suitably; consistently; conformably; -- followed by to and rarely by with. See Agreeable, 4.
3. Alike; similarly.
1. Being in concord or harmony of opinion; of one mind.
2. Can two walk together except they be agreed? Amos 3:3 .
3. Assented to; admitted; as, a proposition is agreed to.
4. Settled by consent; implying bargain or contract; as, the terms were agreed to, or agreed upon.
Living in concord; concurring; assenting; settling by consent.
In conformity to. [Little used.]
In an agreeing manner (to); correspondingly; agreeably.
1. Concord; harmony; conformity.
2. What agreement hath the temple of God with idols? 2 Corinthians 6:16 .
3. Union of opinions or sentiments; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.
4. Resemblance; conformity; similitude.
5. Expansion and duration have this farther agreement
6. Union of minds in regard to a transfer of interest; bargain; compact; contract; stipulation.
7. Make an agreement with me by a present. 2 Kings 18:31 .
8. He made an agreement for the purchase of a house.
1. State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.
3. A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.
4. The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises.
One who agrees.
Rural; rustic; pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; unpolished.
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But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
But if you will not agree to be circumcised, then we will take our sister and go.”
Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
But only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us and be one people: if all our men are circumcised as they are.
Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.
Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him; for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And they agreed.
And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.
And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
“Our lives for your lives!” the men agreed. “If you do not report our mission, we will show you kindness and faithfulness when the LORD gives us the land.”
And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
So the priests agreed that they would not receive money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.
And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
And because this proposal seemed right to all the people, the whole assembly agreed to it.
And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.
The whole assembly agreed to observe seven more days, so they observed seven days with joy.
And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
Then he had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin take a stand in agreement to it. So all the people of Jerusalem carried out the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.
that read: “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and this is why you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king,
And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
In view of all this, we make a binding agreement, putting it in writing and sealing it with the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests.”
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”