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Definition of According

1. Adjective. (followed by 'to') in agreement with or accordant with. "According to instructions"

2. Adjective. (followed by 'to') as reported or stated by. "According to historians"

Definition of According

1. p. a. Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious.

2. adv. Accordingly; correspondingly.

Definition of According

1. Verb. (present participle of accord#Verb accord) ¹

2. Adjective. Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. ¹

3. Adverb. (obsolete) Accordingly; correspondingly. (defdate 16th-17th c.) ¹

4. Adverb. Consistently (term as); in a corresponding manner (now generally expressing accordance with two or more alternatives). (defdate from 16th c.) ¹

5. Adverb. In accordance, in a manner consistent (term to) (something). (defdate from 16th c.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of According

1. accord [v] - See also: accord

Lexicographical Neighbors of According

accord accord and satisfaction accordable accordance accordance of rights accordances accordancy accordant accordantly accordaunce

accorded accorder accorders accordest accordeth according (current term) according as according to according to Hoyle according to one's understanding

according to plan accordingly accordion accordion door accordion file accordion files accordion graft accordion pleat accordioned accordioning

Literary usage of According

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The City of God by Augustine, Marcus Dods (1871)
"For the devil too, wished to live according to himself when he did not abide in ... What it is to live according to man, ami what to live according to God. ..."

2. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1890)
"Clearly, according to his statements, of the same ' thing ' of which the combination ... according to one view, which prevails in the later chapters of the ..."

3. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1844)
"affirms that men have no ears to hear, or eyes to see, but such as he has formed; and that he acts in this, not according to individual gratitude, ..."

4. The Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects: Ionic by Herbert Weir Smyth (1894)
"VI 14 (in A according to Gomperz), ... a specifically Ionic form according to ... according to Apoll. 82 С, Hdt., epist. ..."

5. Pelicotetics, Or, The Science of Quantity: Or, The Science of Quantity. An by Archibald Sandeman (1868)
"And generally whenever the difference between two magnitudes has a certain quality or a clean contrary one according as the one magnitude or the other is ..."

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