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<blockquote>Tories and Whigs had <b>concurred</b> in paying honor to Walker. <i>Makaulay.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>This <b>concurs</b> directly with the letter. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To assent; to consent.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Milton.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- To agree; unite; combine; conspire; coincide; approve; acquiesce; assent.</syn>

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<hw>Con*cur"rence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., competition, equality of rights, fr. LL. <ets>concurrentia</ets> competition.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination.</def>

<blockquote>We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the <b>concurence</b> of other probable reasons, to persuade us. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion; union in design or act; -- implying joint approbation.</def>

<blockquote>Tarquin the Proud was expelled by the universal <b>concurrence</b> of nobles and people. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Agreement or consent, implying aid or contribution of power or influence; co\'94peration.</def>

<blockquote>We collect the greatness of the work, and the necessity of the divine <b>concurrence</b> to it. <i>Rogers.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>An instinct that works us to its own purposes without our <b>concurrence</b>. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A common right; coincidence of equal powers; as, a <b>concurrence</b> of jurisdiction in two different courts.</def>

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<hw>Con*cur"ren*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Concurrence.</def>

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<hw>Con*cur"rent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>concurrent</ets>, L. <ets>concurrens</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>concurrere</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contibuting to the same event of effect; co\'94perating.</def>

<blockquote>I join with these laws the personal presence of the kings' son, as a <b>concurrent</b> cause of this reformation. <i>Sir J. Davies.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The <b>concurrent</b> testimony of antiquity. <i>Bp. Warburton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Conjoined; associate; concomitant; existing or happening at the same time.</def>

<blockquote>There is no difference the <b>concurrent</b> echo and the iterant but the quickness or slowness of the return. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Changes . . . <b>concurrent</b> with the visual changes in the eye. <i>Tyndall.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; <as>as, the <ex>concurrent</ex> jurisdiction of courts</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Geom.)</fld> <def>Meeting in one point.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Meeting; uniting; accompanying; conjoined; associated; coincident; united.</syn>

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<hw>Con*cur"rent</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.</def>