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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