Verb

(copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.

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To obtain a level of success or fame.

* 2002 , Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921 (page 58)

Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes.

To come; said of time.

The time has arrived for us to depart.

To happen or occur.

* Waller

Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives .

(archaic) To reach; to come to.

* Milton

Ere he arrive the happy isle.

* Shakespeare

Ere we could arrive the point proposed.

* Tennyson

Arrive at last the blessed goal.

(obsolete) To bring to shore.

* Chapman

and made the sea-trod ship arrive them

Verb

To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur.

all parties agree in the expediency of the law.

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* (rfdate) Shakespeare

If music and sweet poetry agree .

* (rfdate) Mark xiv. 56.

Their witness agreed not together.

* (rfdate) Sir T. Browne

The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.

To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to.

to agree to an offer, or to opinion.

(transitive, UK, Irish) To yield assent to; to approve.

* {{quote-book, year=1666

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* {{quote-book, year=2005

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* 2011 April 3, John Burke, in The Sunday Business Post :

Bishops agree sex abuse rules

To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.

* (rfdate) Matt. v. 25.

Agree with thine adversary quickly.

* (rfdate) Matt. xx. 13.

Didst not thou agree with me for a penny ?

To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond.

the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.

To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.

the same food does not agree with every constitution.

(grammar) To correspond to in gender, number, case, or person.

(legal) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.