agree 
3. To come to one opinion or mind ; come to an 
arrangement or understanding; arrive at a set- 
tlement. 
Agree witll thine adversary quickly. Mat. v. 25. 
They agree, he to command, they to obey. 
Srltten, Table-Talk, p. 88. 
and realities as flctiniis. mitemvit, - nm>. 
4. To yield assent; consent; rarely, express 
concurrence: as, he agreed to accompany the 
ambassador. 
Agree to any covenants. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., v. 5. 
Agree with his demands to the point. 
Shak., M. for M., iii. 1. 
The tyrant would have agreed to all that the nation de- 
manded. Macaulay, Burleigh. 
B. With a thing or things for the subject, in 
which case agree now takes no preposition ex- 
cept with or in after it, though formerly to was 
also so used. 5. To be consistent; harmonize; 
not to conflict or be repugnant: as, this story 
agrees with what has been related by others. 
Their witness agreed not together. Mark xiv. 56. 
When we possess ourselves witll the utmost security of 
the demonstration, that the three angles of a triangle are 
equal to two right ones, what do we more but perceive 
that equality to two right ones does necessarily agree to, 
and is inseparable from, the three angles of a triangle ? 
Locke, Human Understanding, v. 1. 
A wild-rose roofs the ruined shed, 
And that and summer well agree. 
Coleridge, A Day Dream. 
6. To resemble ; be similar ; be applicable or 
appropriate ; tally ; match ; correspond ; coin- 
cide: as, the picture does not agree with the 
original. 
They all agree in having for their object deliverance 
from the evils of time. 
J. F. Clarke, Ten Great Religions, iii. 5. 
His system of theology agreed with that of the Puritans. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vii. 
7. To suit ; be accommodated or adapted : as, 
the same food does not agree with every consti- 
tution. 8. In gram., to correspond in number, 
case, gender, or person : as, a verb must agree 
with its subject.=Syn, To accord (with), concur (in), 
subscribe (to), promise, engage, undertake. See list under 
accede. 
II. trans. 1. To settle; determine; arrange. 
He saw from far ... 
Some troublous uprore or contentious fray, 
Whereto he drew in hast it to agree. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. iv. 3. 
I do believe the two Pretenders had, privately, agreed 
the matter beforehand. Gray. 
[This use of the verb agree is now obsolete except in the 
impersonal phrase it is agreed, and in a few legal and busi- 
ness expressions : as, the account has been agreed. 
It is thus agreed 
That peaceful truce shall be proclaim'd in France. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., v. 4.] 
2f. To agree with ; suit. 
If harm agree me, wherto pleyne I thenne? 
Chaucer, Troilus, i. 409. 
Case agreed or stated. See easel. 
agreeability (a-gre-a-bil'i-ti), . [Mod. form 
of ME. agreabtete, < OF. agreablete (= Pr. agra- 
(tabletat), < agreable : see agreeable and -bility.] 
The quality of being agreeable ; easiness of 
disposition ; agreeableness. 
Al fortune is blisful to a man by the agreablete or by the 
egalite of hym that suffereth it. Chaucer, Boethius. 
She was all good humour, spirits, sense, and agreeabili- 
ty. (Surely I may make words when at a loss, if Dr. John- 
son does.) Mine. D'Arblay, Diary, I. 42. 
agreeable (a-gre'a-bl), a. [< ME. agreable, < OF. 
agreable (F. agreable), < agreer: see agree, v.] 
1. Suitable; conformable ; correspondent : as, 
conduct agreeable to the moral law. 
Though they embraced not this practice of burning, yet 
entertained they many ceremonies agreeable unto Greek 
and Koman obsequies. Sir T. Browne, Urn-Burial, i. 
[In this sense agreeable is sometimes incorrectly used for 
agreeably : as, agreeable to the order of the day, the house 
took up the report of the committee.] 
2. Pleasing, either to the mind or to the senses ; 
to one's liking: as, agreeable manners; fruit 
agreeable to the taste. 
There was something extremely agreeable in the cheer- 
ful flow of animal spirits of the little man. 
li-finii, Sketch-Book, p. 260. 
My idea of an agreeable person, said Hugo Bulmn, is a 
person who agrees with me. /<;-,,/, (i. 
3. Willing or ready to agree or consent: now 
used only or chiefly as a colloquialism. 
These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a 
great sum of money, so that he will be but content and 
luit they may enter into the said town. 
Latinu'r. 
117 
I'll meet you there, and bring my wife that is to be. . . . 
You're agrf't'ul' 1 ' ' ' Dit-kt-nn. 
4f. Agreeing one with another ; concordant. 
These manifold and ayrt'ealile testimonies of the oMe 
and new writers. Author o/ 1596, quoted by F. Hall. 
Syn. 1. Fitting, befitting, appropriate, consonant (with). 
2. I'li'tixiii*/. rU 1 . Sec OUntO/nt. 
agreeableness (a-gre'a-bl-nes), . The state 
or quality of being agreeable, (a) Suitableness; 
conformity ; consistency : as, the agreeableness of virtue 
to the laws of God. (It) The quality of pleasing ; that 
quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to 
the mind or senses : as, agreeablenfsn of manners ; there is 
an ayreeableness in the taste of certain fruits. 
We have entered into a contract of mutual agreeable- 
nets for the space of an evening. 
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, x. 
(ct) Concordance ; harmony ; agreement. 
The agreeableness between man and other parts of crea- 
tion, drew, Cosmologia Sacra. 
agreeably (a-gre'a-bli), adv. [< ME. agreable- 
ly : see agreeable and -ty 2 .] In an agreeable 
manner, (a) Suitably ; consistently ; conformably. See 
remark under agreeable, 1. 
The effect of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, 
agreeably to the maxim above laid down. Paletf. 
Reason requires us, when we speak of Christianity, to 
expound the phrase agreeably to history, if we mean to 
claim on its behalf the authority of civilized man. 
Gladstone, Might of Right, p. 189. 
(6) Pleasingly ; in an agreeable manner ; in a manner to 
give pleasure : as, to be agreeably entertained with a dis- 
course. 
The years which he [Temple] spent at the Hague seem 
... to have passed very agreeably. 
Maeaulay, Sir William Temple. 
We were also most agreeably surprised by the beauty of 
the scenery. /."(/// Bransey, Voyage of Sunbeam, II. xxii. 
(ct) Alike ; in the same or a similar manner ; similarly. 
With hem that every fortune receyven agreablely or 
egaly [equally]. Chaucer, Boethius. 
Armed both agreeably. Spenser, F. Q., VI. vii. 3. 
agreeinglyt (a-gre'ing-li), adv. In conformity 
to. Sheldon. 
agreement (a-gre'ment), . [< ME. agrement, 
< OF. agrement, F. agrement: see agree, v., and 
-men*.] 1. The state of agreeing or of being 
in accord, (.) Concord ; harmony ; conformity ; resem- 
blance ; suitableness. 
What 'agreement hath the temple of God with idols ? 
2 Cor. vi. 16. 
Knowledge is represented as the perception of the 
agreement or repugnance of our ideas, not with things, 
but with one another ; in some cases the agreement being 
seen intuitively or directly, and in others by a process in 
which there may be more or less certainty. 
McCoih, Locke's Theory, 2. 
(b) Union of opinions or sentiments ; harmony in feeling ; 
absence of dissension : as, a good agreement subsists among 
the members of the council. 
With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to 
shape their thought and deed in noble agreement. 
George Eliot, Middlemarch, Prelude. 
(c) In gram., correspondence of words in respect of num- 
ber, gender, etc. See agree, c., I., 8. (d) In logic, capability 
of being true together : said of terms. 
2. The act of coming to a mutual arrangement ; 
a bargain, contract, covenant, or treaty: as, he 
made an agreement for the purchase of a house. 
Make an agreement with me by a present. 
2 Ki. xviii. 31. 
An agreement, if it involve an unlawful act or the pre- 
vention of lawful acts on the part of others, is plainly un- 
lawful. Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, 42. 
3. Agreeable quality or circumstance; agree- 
ableness: generally in the plural. [A Galli- 
cism, now often written as French, agrfments.] 
This figure, says he, wants a certain gay air ; it has none 
of those charms and agreements. 
Tom Brown, Works, III. 52. 
Agreement for insurance, an agreement preliminary to 
the filling out and delivery of a policy 
with specific stipulations. External 
agreement. See external. Memo- 
randum of agreement. See memoran- 
dum. -Method of agreement. See 
me<Au(/. Non-importation agree- 
ment, an agreement made between the 
American colonies at Philadelphia, Oct. 
20, 1774, not to import anything from 
or manufactured in Great Britain or Ire- 
land or the West Indies. This action was 
taken by way of retaliation for the passage 
by Parliament of certain acts for raising 
revenue in America. 
agreget, agregget, v. See ag- 
greage. 
agrenon (a-gre'non), n. [Gr. 
aypiivov, a net, a net-like woolen 
robe.] In Gr. antiq., a net-like 
woolen garment worn by bac- 
chanals and soothsayers. 
agrestial (a-gres'tial), a. [< L. 
iigrrxtix : SIM,' agresUe.] 1. In- 
habiting the fields. 2. In hot., growing wild 
in cultivated land. [Rare.] 
Lpol 
wearing the Agre- 
non. fount) at Ha- 
drian's Villa near 
Tivoli. 
agriculturist 
agrestic (a-gres'tik), . [< L. agrestin, rural, 
rustic, < tiger, field: see agrarian and acre.} 
Rural ; rustic ; pertaining to fields or the coun- 
try; unpolished. [Rare.] 
Cowley retreated into solitude, where he found none of 
the agrestic charms of the landscapes of his mii.se. 
/. D' Israeli, Calam. of Authors, I. 64. 
agrestical (a-gres'ti-kal), . Same as agrestic. 
agrevet, '' t. An obsolete spelling of aggrieve. 
agria (ag'ri-a), n. [NL., < Gr. aypwf, wild, 
savage, malignant, < ay/>6f, field, = E. acre, q. 
v.] Same as her/nv. 
agricolationt (a-grik-o-la'shon), . [< L. agri- 
colatiu(n-), < agricolari, cultivate, land, < agri- 
cola, a cultivator of land, farmer : see agricole.] 
Cultivation of the soil, t'ockeram. 
agricole (ag'ri-kol), re. [< F. agricole, < L. agri- 
cola, a farmer, < ager, field (see acre), + colere, 
till.] A husbandman ; arustic. N.E.I). [Rare.] 
agricolistt (a-grik'o-list), n. [< L. agricola, 
farmer (see agricole), + -ist.] An agriculturist. 
The pasture and the food of plants 
First let the young agricolist be taught. 
Dodsley's Coll. of Poems, Agriculture. 
agricolous (a-grik'6-lus), a. [< L. agricola, 
farmer (see agricole), + -ous.] Agricultural. 
Sydney Smith. 
agricultor (ag'ri-kul-tor), . [L., better written 
separately, agri cultor, tiller of land: agri, gen. 
of ager, land, field (see acre); cultor, tiller, < 
colere, till, cultivate. Cf. agricole.] A tiller of 
the ground; afarmer; ahusbandman. [Rare.] 
agricultural (ag-ri-kul'tur-al), a. Pertaining 
to, connected with, or engaged in agriculture. 
The transition from the pastoral to the agricultural life 
has almost always been effected by means of slavery. 
D. W. Ross, German Land-holding, p. 3. 
Agricultural ant, a kind of ant which clears the ground 
of verdure in the vicinity of its nest. Such a species is 
Pogonomynnex barbatus of Texas, which cuts down all 
the herbage within ten or twelve feet of its nest. Agri- 
cultural chemistry, a branch of chemistry treating of 
the composition ana chemical properties of plants, soils, 
manures, feeding-stuffs for cattle, etc. Agricultural 
Children Act, an English statute of 1873 (36 and 37 Viet, 
c. 67) which restricts the employment of children in agri- 
cultural work and provides for their education. Agri- 
cultural engine, a portable steam-motor for general work 
on a farm. See traction-engine and steam-plow. Agri- 
cultural Gangs Act, an English statute of 1867 (30 and 
31 Viet. c. 130) which regulates the contracting of women 
and children to labor on farms. Agricultural geology, 
that branch of geology which treats of the resources of a 
country in respect of soils, subsoils, subjacent strata, and 
mineral manures. Agricultural Holdings Acts, two 
English statutes of 1875 and 1883, as to therelation of land- 
lord and tenant, the settlement of their disputes, and com- 
pensation for improvements. Agricultural society, a 
society for promoting agricultural interests, such as the 
improvement of land, of implements, of the breeds of cat- 
tle, etc. 
agriculturalist (ag-ri-kul'tur-al-ist), n. [< ag- 
ricultural + -ist. Cf. naturalist.] Same as agri- 
culturist. 
Every truly practical man, whether he be merchant, 
mechanic, or agriculturalist, transmutes his experience 
into intelligence, until his will operates with the celerity 
of instinct. Whipple, Lit. and Life, p. 194. 
agriculturally (ag-ri-kul'tur-al-i), adv. As re- 
gards agriculture or agricultural purposes. 
The dissolved constituents of sewage by far the most 
valuable portion agriculturally. 
Sci. Amer. Supp., XXII. 8836. 
agriculture (ag'ri-kul-tur), . [< F. agricul- 
ture, < L. agricultiira, better written separately, 
agri cultura, tilling of land: agri, gen. of ager, 
field ; cultura, tilling, cultivation : see agricultor 
and culture.]. The cultivation of the ground ; 
especially, cultivation with the plow and in large 
areas in order to raise food for man and beast ; 
husbandi-y; tillage; farming. Theoretical agricul- 
ture, or the theory of agriculture,\& a science comprehending 
in its scope the nature and properties of soils, the different 
sorts of plants and seeds fitted for them, the composition 
and qualities of manures, and the rotation of crops, and 
involving a knowledge of chemistry, geology, and kindred 
sciences. Practical agriculture, or husbandry, is an art 
comprehending all the labors of the field and of the farm- 
yard, such as preparing the land for the reception of the 
seed or plants, sowing and planting, rearing and gathering 
the crops, care of fruit-trees and domestic animals, dis- 
position of products, etc. Bachelor of agriculture, a 
degree, corresponding to bachelor of arts or of science, 
conferred by agricultural colleges. Often abbreviated to 
B. Agr. Chamber of Agriculture, an association of 
agriculturists for the purpose of promoting and protect- 
ing the interests of agriculture.- Department of Agri- 
culture and Commissioner Of Agriculture. See de- 
partment. 
agriculturism (ag-ri-kul'tur-izm), n. [< agri- 
culture + -ism.] The art or science of agricul- 
ture. [Rare.] 
agriculturist (ag-ri-kul'tur-ist), . [< agricul- 
ture + -int.] One occupied in cultivating the 
ground; a husbandman. Also written agricul- 
turalist. 
