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Concur v. i. (past & past part. concurred; pres. part. concurring)

To run together; to meet. (Obs.) "Anon they fierce encountering both concurred With grisly looks and faces like their fates."

To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect. "When outward causes concur."

To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond. "Mr. Burke concurred with Lord Chatham in opinion." "Tories and Whigs had concurred in paying honor to Walker." "This concurs directly with the letter."

To assent; to consent. (Obs.)

Synonyms: To agree; unite; combine; conspire; coincide; approve; acquiesce; assent.

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... racial matters and the use of economic sanctions. In regard to the proposal to close bases in communities that persisted in racial discrimination, the Secretary of the Navy said bluntly: "Do not concur. Base siting is based upon military requirements."[21-60] These officials promised that commanders would press for voluntary compliance, but for more aggressive measures they preferred to wait for the passage of federal ...

— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.

... aids, it is agreed that we are primarily interested in seeing the subject feel better or achieve whatever goals he seeks through the intelligent application of self-hypnosis. If a hypnotic aid will help the subject achieve hypnosis, we can concur it is justified. It is not to be considered a subterfuge. If the physician administers a placebo to a patient with the remark, "Here is a new medication that can help your condition" and if this technique does help alleviate the patient's condition, ...

— A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis • Melvin Powers

... whose opinions so often concur with those of the Quarterly Reviewer, puts the case in a way, which I much regret to be obliged to say, is, in my judgment, quite as incorrect; though the injustice may be less glaring. He says that the ...

— Darwiniana • Thomas Henry Huxley

... secondary schools were founded in western Europe, and a more extensive development of the cathedral and other larger church schools took place. Rashdall (R. 154) thinks that by 1400 the opportunity to attend a Latin grammar school was rather common, an opinion in which Leach and Nohle concur. After the humanistic learning had spread to northern lands these opportunities were increased and improved. In England, for example, some two hundred and fifty Latin grammar schools are known to have been in ...

— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY

... do recur according to laws of their own: I say some, but it may be all. If the world is finite, the possible combinations of its elements are exhaustible; and, in time, whatever conditions of the world have concurred will concur again, and in the same relation to former conditions. This writing, that cab, those chimes, those scales will coincide again; the Argonautic expedition, and the Trojan war, and all our other troubles will be renewed. But let us ...

— Logic - Deductive and Inductive • Carveth Read

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