▪ I.agreeing,vbl.n.|əˈgriːɪŋ|[f.agree v. + -ing1.]A coming to or being in harmony.1548Udall, etc.Mark xiv. 14 (R.)This house presenteth vnto vs the agreyng and frendely felowshyp of the church.
1580HollybandTreas.Fr.Tong.,Accord de sons & choses differentes, agreeing of disagreeing thinges.
1591PercivallSp.Dict.,Concorde, agreeing.
1611Cotgr.,Agreation, an agreement, concord, assent, consent; also, an agreeing.
1865CarlyleFredk.Gt.I. ii. iv. 65Inextricable coil of claimings, quarrellings and agreeings.
▪ II.agreeing,ppl.a.|əˈgriːɪŋ|North. agreeand.[f.agree v. + -ing2.]†1.In conformity with, conformable, corresponding, or answering to. Obs.1540WhittintonTully's Offyce i. 2That thynge..to my dignite mooste agreynge.
a1555BradfordWks.189What is more necessary than meat and drink, or more agreeing to nature?
1687SettleRefl.Dryden's Plays 4How agreeing Images are to the Mahumetan Worship..I leave to the judicious to censure.
2.Of the same mind or nature; concurring, accordant, harmonious, unanimous.1557Earl of SurreyAeneid ii. 292The people cried with sondry greeing shoutes.
1581LambardeEiren. i. ix. (1602) 38The agreeing opinion of all the judges.
1677GaleCrt.Gentiles i. iii. ii. 33In the ancient fables, there is no uniforme, and..agreeing historie to be exspected.
1703RoweFair Penit. iii. i. 1097The kind consent of our agreeing minds.
1880CyplesHum. Exp. iii. 51The largest number of agreeing units.
†3.Suiting, doing well with. Obs.1620VennerVia Recta v. 86The milke will be much the more agreeing with the stomacke.
1642RogersNaaman 110A marveilous agreeing nature..with the corrupt sensuall appetite of man.
†4.adverbially. According to;=agreeingly. Obs.1526Tindale1Cor.xv. 3Christ dyed for our synnes agreynge to the scriptures[soCoverd., Cranmer, Geneva; Rhem. and 1611 according to].
1614–25BoysWks.1630, 138A Preacher then must teach agreeing to the faith.
