congrue

English

Etymology

Latin congruere. See congruous.

Verb

congrue (third-person singular simple present congrues, present participle congruing, simple past and past participle congrued)

  1. (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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for congrue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

French

Adjective

congrue

  1. feminine singular of congru

Italian

Adjective

congrue

  1. feminine plural of congruo

Latin

Verb

congrue

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of congruō

References
  • congrue in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • congrue in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • congrue in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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