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conˈcurrency
Also 7 -ancy.
[f. as prec. with the later suffix -ency.]
1. A running together in place or time; meeting, combination.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. Wks. II. 121 Is it probable that God should..command concurrency of rest with extra⁓ordinary occasions of doleful events? 1605Timme Quersit. ii. iv. 116 The equal concurrencie of sulphur and quick⁓silver. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 63 Where there was a concurrencie of old bloud with fidelity, a mixture which ever sorted with the Queens nature. 1660tr. Paracelsus' Archidoxis i. iv. 41 There's made a concurrency, or meeting of two likes. 1880Ruskin in 19th Cent. June 942 The fields on each side of it are..cut through..by the wild crossings and concurrencies of three railroads.
2. Accordance in operation or opinion; co-operation; consent; = concurrence 3, 4.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. ix. xlix. (1612) 226 But much more Concurrancie from one to all to stop that common Sore. 1618Sir H. Carey in Fortesc. Papers 56 Soe generall a concurrency..in that opinion. 1651Raleigh's Ghost 227 Books..written by the concurrency and direction of the Holy Ghost.
b. Something that concurs with other things; a concurring circumstance, etc.
1636Blunt Voy. Levant (1637) 40 This large compasse helps other concurrencies to justifie the Turkish reports.
†3. Pursuit of the same object with another; competition, rivalry. Obs.
1597Daniel Civ. Wares viii. lxxxviii, To..shut out all other concurrency. 1632Sir R. Le Grys Vell. Paterc. 188 In their concurrency for the place of the Soveraign Bishop.
†4. The quality or fact of being concurrent in jurisdiction; joint right or authority. Obs.
1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. lviii, The Admiral..hath..a concurrency with the Lord Mayor of London in the Conservatorship of the River of Thames. a1750Ayliffe (J.), A bishop might have officers, if there was a concurrency of jurisdiction between him and the archdeacon. |