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what had been held by the nobility, were never attempted 
without great diflurbances. Several have pleaded for the 
neceffity of agrarian laws among us: but no author has 
entered fo deeply into the fubjeft as Mr. Harrington in 
his Oceana, 
AGREDA, a town of Spain, in Old Caflile, near the 
frontiers of Arragon, and about three leagues fouth-weft 
of Taracon. 
To AGREE, v. n. [ agre'er, Fr. from gre, liking or good¬ 
will; gatia and gratus, Lat.] To be in concord; to live 
without contention; not to differ. To grant; to yield to; 
to admit, with the.particles to or upon. —And perfuaded 
them to agree to all reafonable conditions. 1 Maccabees , xi. 
i 4 .—We do not prove the origin of the earth from a 
chaos; feeing that is agreed on by all that give it any ori¬ 
gin. Burnet.— To fettle amicably. To fettle terms by fti- 
pulation ; to accord: followed by with. — Agree with thine 
adverfary quickly, whilfl thou art in the way with him; 
left at any time the adverfary deliver thee to the judge, 
and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be caff 
into prifon. Matt. v. 25.—To fettle a price between buyer 
and feller.—Friend, I do thee no wrong: didft not thou 
agree with me for a penny. Matt. xx. 13.—To be of the 
fame mind or opinion. To concur; to co-operate. To 
fettle fome point among many, with upon before a noun. 
—Strifes and troubles would be endlefs, except they gave 
their common confent all to be ordered by fome whom 
they ffiould agree upon. Hooker. —To be confident; not to 
contradift. To fuit with; to be accommodated to : with 
to or a nth. To caufe no diflurbance in the body .—1 have 
often thought, that our preferihing affes milk in fuch 
fmall quantities is injudicious; for, undoubtedly, with 
fuch as it agrees zoith, it would perform much greater and 
quicker effects in greater quantities. Arbuthnot. 
To Agree, -j. a. To put an end to a variance. To make 
friends ; to reconcile: 
The mighty rivals, whofe defiructive rage 
Did the whole w odd in civil arms engage, 
Are now agreed. ' , Rofcommon. 
AGREEABLE,' adj: [agreitble, Fr.] Suitableto; con¬ 
fident with; conformable to. It has the particle to or 
■with. —This paucity of blood is agreeable to many other 
animals, as frogs, lizards, and other fiflies. Brown —What 
you do, is not at all agreeable either with fo good a Chrif- 
tian, or fo reafonable and fo great a perfon. Temple. —In 
the following paffage the adjective is ufed by a familiar 
corruption for the adverb agreeably. — Agreeable hereunto, 
perhaps it might not be amifs, to make children, as foon 
as they are capable of it, often to tell a dory. Locke. — 
Pleafing; that is fuitable to the inclination, faculties, or 
temper! It is ufed in this fenfe both of perfons and of 
things. 
AGREEABLENESS, f Confidency with; fuitable- 
nefs to: with the particle to. —Pleafant fades depend not 
on the things themfelves, but their agrccablenefs to this or 
that particular palate, wherein there is great variety. Locke. 
—The quality of pleafing. It is ufed in an inferior fenfe, 
to mark the produ&ion of fatisfaefion, calm and lading, 
but below rapture or admiration.—It has very much an 
image of that author’s writing, who has an agreeablenefs 
that charms us, without correctnefs ; like a midrefs whofe 
faults we fee, but love her with them all. Pope .—Refem- 
blance ; likenefs ; fometimes with the particle between. — 
This relation is likewife feen in the agrccablenefs between 
man and the other parts of the univerfe. Grew. 
AGREEABLY, adv. Confidently with; in a manner 
fuitable to. Pleadngly. 
AGREED, part. adj. Settled by confent. 
AGREEINGNESS,yi Confidence; fuitablenefs. 
AGREEMENT,^ [ agrement, Fr. in law' Latin agrea- 
mentum , which Coke would willingly derive from aggre¬ 
gate mentium. ] Concord.—What agreement is there between 
the hyaena and the dog ? and what peace between the rich 
>nd the poor? Ecclus. xiii, r8.— Refemblance of one thing 
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to another.—The divifion and quavering which pleafe fo 
much in mulic, have an agreement with the glittering of 
light, as the moon-beams playing upon a wave. Bacon.— 
Compact; bargain; concludon of controverfy; flipula- 
tion.—Make an agreement with me by a prefent, and come 
out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, 
and every one of his fig-tree. 2 Kings, xviii. 31. 
Agreement, in law, is of three kinds:—1. Anagree- 
ment executed already at the beginning; as where money 
is paid for the thing agreed on, or other fatisfadtion made. 
2. A11 agreement after an aft done by another; as where 
one doth fuch a thing, and another perfon agrees to it af¬ 
terwards, which is executed alfo. 3. An agreement exe¬ 
cutory, or to be performed in future. This lad fort o{ 
agreement may be divided into two parts; one certain at 
the beginning; the other, when, the certainty not appear¬ 
ing at the fird, the parties agree that the tiling fliall be 
performed upon the certainty known. Terms of the Law. 
An agreement put in writing only for remembrance, 
doth not change its nature ; but, if it be put in writing, 
fealed and delivered, it is of greater force. Hob. 79. 
By the datute of frauds, 29 Car. II. c. 3. all agreements 
for lands (hall be in writing, figned by the parties, other- 
wife they fhall only have eflebt as edites at will. And no 
adtion diall be brought, to charge any perfon upon any 
fpecial promife to anfwer for the debt of another perfon, 
or upon any contradl of marriage, or upon any agreement 
not to be performed within a year, unlefs the fame be put 
in writing, and figned by the party charged therewith. 
AGRESTIC, or Agrestical, adj. [from agrefis , 
Lat.] Having relation to the country ; rude; ruftic. 
AGRIA, called by the Germans Eger, is a fmall.but 
drong town in Upper Hungary, and is a bilhop’s fee. It 
is (ituated on a river of the fame name, and has a citadel 
called Eriaw. It was befieged by the Turks in 1552, with 
70,000 men: but they lofl 8000 in one day; and were 
obliged to raife the fiege, though the garrifon confided 
only of 2000 Hungarians, allidedby the women, who per¬ 
formed wondeXs on this oedafion. However, it was af¬ 
terwards taken by Mahomet III. i ri 1596; but was retaken 
by the emperor in 16S7; dnee which time it lias continued 
under the dominion of the houfe of Audria. It is forty - 
feven miles nortli-ead of Buda, and fifty-five fouth-wed 
of Calfovia. Lat. 48. 10. N. Ion. 20. 10. E. 
Agria,/ in medicine, is a malignant pudule, of which 
there are two forts; one is fmall, and cads a roughnefs or 
rednefs over the (kin, (lightly corroding it, fmooth about 
its centre, fpreads flow, and is of a round figure; this fort 
is cured by rubbing it with the faliva before having break- 
faded; the fecond fort ulcerates, with a violent rednefs 
and corrofion, fo as to make the hair fall off. It is of an 
unequal form, and turns leprous; its cure is the applica¬ 
tion of pellitory of the wall in the manner of a poultice. 
AGRICOLA (Cneus Junius), born at Ferjus in Pro¬ 
vence, was, in Vefpafian’s time, made lieutenant to Vet- 
tius Bolanus in Britain; and, upon his return, was ranked 
by that emperor among the patricians, and made govern¬ 
or of Aquitania. This pod he held three years; and, 
upon his return, was chofen conful, and afterward ap¬ 
pointed governor of Britain, where he greatly diflinguiflied 
himfelf. He reformed many abufes occafioned by the 
avarice or negligence of former governors, put a flop to 
extortion, and caufed juflice to be impartially adminifler- 
ed. Vefpafian dying about this time, his fon Titus, know¬ 
ing the great merit of Agricola, continued him in the 
government. In the fpring, he marched towards the 
north, where he made fome new conqueds, and ordered 
forts to be built for the Romans to winter in. He fpent 
the following winter in concerting fchemes to bring the 
Britons to conform to the Roman cufloms. He thought 
the bed way of diverting them from riling and taking 
arms, was to foften their rough manners, by propofing to 
them new kinds of pleafure, and infpiring them with a 
defire of imitating the Roman manners. Soon after this, 
the country was adorned with magnificent temples, porti- 
