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.

* {{quote-book, year=1594

, author=Thomas Lodge , title=The wounds of civil war: Lively set forth in the true tragedies of Marius and Scilla , page=46 , passage=You know that in so great a state as this, Two mightie foes can never well agree .}}

* (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

, author=Paddy McNutt , title=Law, economics and antitrust: towards a new perspective , page=59 , passage=The essential idea is that parties should enter the market, choose their contractors, set their own terms and agree a bargain.}}

* 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.

Verb

(settl)

To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; especially, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home etc.

* And he settled his countenance steadfastly upon him,until he was ashamed. --2 Kings VIII. 11. (Rev. Ver.)

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(transitive, obsolete, US) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish.

To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to quieten; to still; to calm; to compose.

* (George Chapman)

God settled then the huge whale-bearing lake.

* (John Bunyan)

Hoping that sleep might settle his brains.

To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink

To restore (ground, roads etc.) or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition

To cause to sink; to lower

To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from uncertainty

* (Jonathan Swift)

It will settle the wavering, and confirm the doubtful.

To pacify (a discussion, quarrel).

(archaic) To adjust (accounts); to liquidate; to balance.

(colloquial) To pay.

to settle a bill

To colonize; to move people to (a land or territory).

To become fixed, permanent or stationary; to establish one's self or itself

* (Francis Bacon)

The wind came about and settled in the west.

* (John Arbuthnot)

Chyleruns through all the intermediate colors until it settles in an intense red.

To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home.

To become married, or a householder.

* (Matthew Prior)

As people marry now and settle .

To be established in a profession or in employment.

To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.

To become clear after being unclear or vague

* (Joseph Addison)

A government, on such occasions, is always thick before it settles .

To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, for example dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.

To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.

To become calm; to stop being agitated

* (William Shakespeare)

Till the fury of his highness settle , Come not before him.

To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement.

(obsolete) To make a jointure for a wife.

* (Samuel Garth)

He sighs with most success that settles well.