Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class I. Words Expressing Abstract RelationsSection II. Relation
4. General Relation
23. Agreement.
NOUN:AGREEMENT, accord, accordance; unison, harmony; concord [See Concord]; concordance, concert; understanding, mutual understanding; gentleman’s agreement, entente cordiale [F.], consortium; unanimity, consension [rare], concentus, consentaneity.CONFORMITY [See Conformity]; conformance; uniformity [See Uniformity]; assonance, consonance, consentaneousness, consistency; congruity, congruence or congruency; keeping; congeniality; correspondence, concinnity, parallelism, apposition, union.
FITNESS, aptness &c. adj.; relevancy; pertinence or pertinency; sortance [obs.]; case in point; aptitude, coaptation, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility; cognation (relation) [See Relation].
ADAPTATION, adaption, adjustment, graduation, accommodation; reconciliation, reconcilement; assimilation.
CONSENT (assent) [See Assent]; concurrence [See Concurrence]; consensus, rapport [F.], meeting of minds, coöperation [See Coöperation].
right man in the right place, very thing; quite the thing, just the thing.
VERB:BE ACCORDANT &c. adj.; agree, accord, harmonize; correspond, tally, respond; meet, suit, fit, befit, do, adapt itself to; fall in with, chime in with, square with, quadrate with, consort with, comport with; dovetail, assimilate; fit like a glove; fit to a tittle, fit to a T; match [See Similarity]; become one; homologate.
consent (assent) [See Assent].
RENDER ACCORDANT &c. adj.; fit, suit, adapt, accommodate; graduate; adjust &c. (render equal) [See Equality]; dress, regulate, readjust; accord, harmonize, reconcile; fadge, dovetail, square.
ADJECTIVE:AGREEING, suiting &c. v.; in accord, accordant, concordant, consonant, congruous, consentaneous [archaic], answerable, correspondent, congenial; coherent; becoming; harmonious, reconcilable, conformable; in accordance with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with &c. n.; at one with, of one mind, of a piece; consistent, compatible, proportionate; commensurate; on all fours with.
APT, apposite, pertinent, pat; to the point, to the purpose; happy, felicitous, germane, ad rem [L.], in point, bearing upon, applicable, relevant, admissible.
FIT, adapted, in loco [L.], à propos [F.], appropriate, seasonable, sortable, suitable, idoneous [rare], deft; meet (expedient) [See Expedience].
at home, in one’s proper element.
ADVERB:à propos of; pertinently &c. adj.
QUOTATIONS:
- Rem acu tetigisti.
- The cap fits.
- Auxilia humilia firma consensus facit.—Syrus
- Concordia discors.—Horace
- Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.—Pope