▪ I. † conˈgrue, a. Obs.
Also 5–6 congru, -grew(e.
[a. F. congru, -grue (15th c. in Littré), ad. L. congru-us agreeing, suitable, harmonious, f. stem of congru-ĕre: see next.]
1. Agreeable to the character or nature of anything; fitting, suitable, becoming, due, proper.
| c 1400 Apol. Loll. 30 It semiþ hem to preche, it is profit to bles, it is congrew to sacre. 1485 Caxton St. Wenefr. 3 She had not tyme congrue to fulfylle it. a 1502 Arnolde Chron. (1811) 28 The Mayre, Aldirmen..may sette congrew remedy. 1542 Becon Pathw. Prayer Wks. (1843) 143 The congrue, decent, and seemly worshipping of God. 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1596) 8/1 Setting all things in a congrue order. |
2. = congruous 4.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ii. ii. (1495) 27 Noo reason is congrue in the whiche the nominatyf caas & the verbe dyscorde in nombre & in persone. 1494 Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxlvi. 290 Congrewe Englysshe, or of parfyte sentence. 1531 Elyot Gov. i. xv, Rules, wherby a childe shall..lerne to speake congrue latine. 1569 Crowley Soph. Dr. Watson i. 57, I know not by what rule of Grammer, this can be iustified to be congrue latine. |
▪ II. † congrue, v. Obs. rare.
[a. OF. congru-er or L. congru-ĕre to meet together, coincide, agree, correspond, accord; f. con- together + *gruĕre, not found exc. in this composition.]
intr. To agree, accord. (The Quarto reading in the two following passages of Shakespeare. The stress differs in the two quots.)
| 1600 Shakes. Hen. V, i. ii. 182 (Qo.) Gouernment..being put into parts, Congrueth with a mutuall consent like musicke [1st Fo. congreeing, but context different]. 1603 ― Ham. iv. iii. 66 (Qq.) Our soueraigne processe, which imports at full, By letters congruing [Ff. conjuring] to that effect, The present death of Hamlet. |