Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

To Age as accords

To do what is fit and right (Scotch law term). Here “Age” is from the Latin agere, to do.

“To set about the matter in a regular manner, or, as he termed it ... to “age as accords.””

—Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet, chap. 2.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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