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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Concurrent

Con-cür'rent, a.

adjective

a. [Fr. concurrent, Lat. concurrens, p. pr. of concurrere.] 1. Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act; contributing to the same event or effect; co-operating; accompanying. I join with these laws the personal presence of the king's son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation. Davies. 2. Conjoined; associate; concomitant. There is no difference between the concurrent echo and the iterant but the quickness or slowness of the return. Bacon. 3. Joint and equal; existing together and operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts. Syn.—Meeting; uniting; accompanying; conjoined; associated; coincident; united.

Con-cür'rent, n.

noun

n. 1. One who, or that which, concurs; a person pursuing the same course.

Menander . . . had no concurrent in his time that came near unto him. Holland.

Sense 2. Joint or contributory cause.

To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents — time, industry, and faculties. Decay of Piety.

Sense 3. An equal or joint right; a common claim. [Obs.] Carew.

Sense 4. (Chron.) One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; — so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow.