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Age as accords (To)

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To do what is fit and right (Scotch law term). Here “Age” is from the Latin agĕre, to do.

“To set about the matter in a regular manner, or, as he termed it … to ‘age as accords.ʹ”—


Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet, chap. 2.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Aganippe
Agape
Agapemone
Agape tæ
Agate
Ag ate
Agatha
Agathà (St.)
Agave
Agdistes (self-indulgence)
Age as accords (To)
Age of Animals
Age of Women (The)
Age of the Bishops (The)
Age of the Popes (The)
Agĕ hoc
Ages
Agelasta
Agenorides
Agent
Agglutinate Languages