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concur, v.|kənˈkɜː(r)|
Also 6–7 -curr(e.
[ad. L. concurr-ĕre to run together, assemble, meet, rush together in hostility, etc., f. con- together + currĕre to run. The hostile sense was app. that in which it was first used in Eng.: cf. F. concourir (16th c. in Littré).]
†1. intr. To run together violently or with a shock; to come into collision; to collide. Obs.
a1470Tiptoft Caesar xii. (1530) 15 The shyppys..were sore brosyd by reason of concurring. 1513Douglas æneis viii. xii. 43 Huge hie hillis, concurrand all at anis, Togidder rusch and meyt wyth vther montanis. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 236 Is it not now utterly incredible that our two Vessels placed there, Antipodes to each other, should ever happen to concur?
†b. To run together in hostility; to rush at each other. Obs.
1513Douglas æneis x. i. 20 My will was nocht at the Italianys In batale suld concur contrar Troianis. 1587T. Hughes Arthur iv. ii, Anon, they fierce encountring both concur'd, With griesly looks and faces like their fates. 1660S. Fisher Rusticks Alarm Wks. (1679) 439 They can never accord, but are ever snarling and concurring, as Dogs, together by the ears among themselves.
2. To run or come together peacefully; to meet.
†a. Of persons: To have concourse. Obs.
1577Hellowes Gueuara's Chron. 53 He built a market place for the merchants of both people, to trade and concurre. 1609Bible (Douay) 2 Sam. xix. 41 Al the men of Israel concurring to the king. 1632Lithgow Trav. vii. (1682) 295 By their concurring hither, it is wonderfully peopled.
†b. To flow together, as streams (material or immaterial). Obs.
1548Ld. Somerset Epist. Scots 239 Twoo successions cannot concurre and fal into one, by no maner of other meanes, then by mariage. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 198 The one ioineth with the first head of Medway at Twiford, and the other closeth with the third brooke of Medwey a little from Stylebridge, and they all concurre at Yealding. 1625Ussher Answ. Jesuit 366 The one [motion] whereby the soule concurreth to the bodie (which we call generation), etc. 1643tr. Fabricius' Exper. Chyrurg. iv. 9 The..humours do concurre together unto the offended part. 1691Ray Creation i. (1704) 69 Why may not Atoms of different Species concur to the composition of Bodies?
†c. Of lines, etc.: To converge and meet. Obs.
1570Billingsley Euclid i. Def. xxxv. 6 Parallel.. lines..produced infinitely on both sydes, do neuer in any part concurre. 1615Crooke Body of Man 556 In a round figure they concurre and meete together into a poynt. 1703T. N. City & C. Purch. 8 They always concur in an acute Angle at the Top. 1828Hutton Course Math. II. 147 To find the resultant of several forces concurring in one point, and acting in one plane.
d. Of times, events, and circumstances: To fall, happen, or occur together; to coincide.
1596Danett tr. Comines 291 Many matters concur heere. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iv. v. 274 As Hectors leysure, and your bounties shall Concurre together. 1614Raleigh Hist. World iii. ix. (heading), Matters concurring with the Peloponnesian Warre. 1649Selden Laws Eng. i. xxxvii. (1739) 56 Right and Victory always do not concur. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 160 ⁋11 It were happy if..virtue could concur with pleasure. 1868Bain Ment. & Mor. Sc. iv. v. §1 When two pleasures concur, the result is a greater pleasure. 1884tr. Lotze's Logic 390 The chance that different and mutually independent events will concur is measured by the product of their respective chances.
e. Eccl. Of two feasts: To fall on two consecutive days, so that the second vespers of the one coincide with the first vespers of the other.
1863Neale Ess. Liturg. 113 Suppose that the Second Vespers of an ordinary Sunday were to concur with the First Vespers of a Festival of the First or Second Class.
† f. Of qualities, attributes, etc.: To come together or be combined in the same person or thing; to meet in. Obs.
1574Whitgift Def. Aunsw. 253 None can be founde in whom all these qualities do concurre. 1596Drayton Legends iv. 202 Youth, Wit, and Courage, all in me concurre. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 301 If Government, and the preaching of the Gospel, may well concur in the same person.
3. To combine in action, to co-operate:
a. of persons, etc.
1549Compl. Scot. Prol. (1872) 12 Al sortis of craftis suld concur to gyddir, ande ilkane til help vthirs. 1588Allen Admon. 47 They should not acknowledge her..but according to euery ones power and habillite, to concurr to her deposition and condigne punishment. 1626W. Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1629) 166 God concurres to euill; not positiuè, but priuatiuè. 1642J. Ball Answ. to Can ii. 42 The whole Church should concurre in that action. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt (1868) 36, I concurred with our incumbent in getting up a petition against the Reform Bill.
b. of things, causes, circumstances, conditions.
1559Myrr. Mag., Hen. VI, xii. 83 Thus wrath and wreake divine, mans sinnes and humours yll, Concur in one. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 921 There be many causes concurring, which mooue men to praier. 1633G. Herbert Temple, Praise ii, All things concurre to give it a perfection. 1677Grew Anat. Plants, Lect. v. Colours Plants i. §11 How doth the Air concur to the Greenness of Plants? 1817R. Jameson Char. Min. 159 One of the plane angles which concur to the formation of the solid angle. 1861Stanley East. Ch. iii. (1869) 83 Two opposite forces concurred in bringing about the Council of Nicæa.
4. To agree in opinion (with).
1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons A iij b, They doo alleadge..that their wars are now growen to greater perfection..in the which I do concurre with them. 1631Star Chamb. Cases (Camd. Soc.) 22 For the censure I doe concurre with Mr Chancellor. 1666Pepys Diary (1879) IV. 16 Whom my wife concurs with me to be a pretty woman. 1749Fielding Tom Jones Wks. 1775 III. 83 Mr. Alworthy by no means concurred with the opinion of those parents. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) VI. 404 From what was said..he concurred that the intention of the testator was lawful. 1876Grote Eth. Fragm. ii. 37 If the public dissent from our views we say that they ought to concur with us.
†5. Of things: To agree, accord in quality, character, etc. Obs.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 207 Your doinges therefore shall concurre and agree with reason and conscience. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. i. 87 To establish here a Peace indeede, Concurring both in Name and Qualitie. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry iv. vii. (1611) 205 The hanging downe of the bag from the Handwrist, doth concurre with that forme of Sleeue which the women of Galway..at this day doe vse. 1765H. Walpole Otranto i. (1798) 18 It was now twilight, concurring with the disorder of his mind. 1788Trifler 399 As the opinions of mankind concur to his inclinations and suit his taste.
6. Law. Of rights, titles, etc.: To cover or claim the same ground; hence, to conflict, clash.
1613Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 61 When two titles concurre, the best is preferred. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 259 Where the king's title and a subject's concur, the king's shall be always preferred. |