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Agrarian: Definition and part of speech

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Agrarian

  1. n. An agrarian law.
  2. a. Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens.
  3. a. Wild; — said of plants growing in the fields.
  4. n. One in favor of an equal division of landed property.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Agrarianism: Definition and part of speech

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Agrarianism

  1. n. An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Agree: Definition and part of speech

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Agree

  1. adv. In good part; kindly.
  2. v. i. To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law.
  3. v. i. To yield assent; to accede; — followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to opinion.
  4. v. i. 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.
  5. v. i. To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond; as, the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.
  6. v. i. To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution.
  7. v. i. To correspond in gender, number, case, or person.
  8. v. t. To make harmonious; to reconcile or make friends.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.