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Congrue
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Congrue
CONGRUE
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congrue
congrue
English
Verb
congrue (third-person singular simple present congrues, present participle congruing, simple past and past participle congrued)
- (obsolete) To agree; to be suitable.
- c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene III:
- Thou mayst not coldly set
- Our sovereign process; which imports at full,
- By letters congruing to that effect,
- The present death of Hamlet.
- c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene III:
Latin
Verb
congrue
- second-person singular present active imperative of congruō
References
- congrue in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “congrue”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- congrue in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016