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verb

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.

adjective

Concurring adj. Agreeing.

Concurring figure (Geom.), one which, being laid on another, exactly meets every part of it, or one which corresponds with another in all its parts.

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... Government having repeatedly manifested a desire to interchange a public minister with the United States, and having lately appointed one with that view, and other considerations concurring to render it advisable at this period to make a correspondent appointment, I nominate Jonathan Russell, of Rhode Island, to be minister plenipotentiary of the ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 4 (of 4) of Volume 1: James Madison • Edited by James D. Richardson

... and sputtered, denouncing Garry and his "swallow-tails" in the bar rooms and at the board meetings, but the decision was unanimous, two of his friends concurring, fearing, as they explained afterward, that the "New York crowd" might claim even a larger sum in a suit ...

— Peter - A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero • F. Hopkinson Smith

... also made the unsolicited offer of concurring "in measures calculated to discharge the debts of America, and to raise the credit and value of the paper circulation." If your Excellencies mean by this to apply for offices in the department of our finance, I am to assure you (which I do with "perfect respect") that it ...

— The Original Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume 4 • Samuel Adams

... to mention the various and concurring reasons which induce me to place your name at the head of the following work. Yet the chief of these reasons may perhaps be refuted by the imperfections of the performance. Could I have hoped to render it worthy of your ...

— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott

... Highness, I carried out exactly every command given me by your highness, and the Electoral Prince surely would not have delayed an instant gratifying the demands of his revered father, if many concurring circumstances had not made it impossible for him. The Electoral Prince has himself more narrowly pointed out and explained these in this letter, which he has charged me to ...

— The Youth of the Great Elector • L. Muhlbach

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