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Definition of ACCORDING
According According Ac*cord"ing, adv.
Accordingly; correspondingly. [Obs.] --Shak.
According According Ac*cord"ing, p. a.
Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. ``This
according voice of national wisdom.' --Burke. ``Mind and
soul according well.' --Tennyson.
According to him, every person was to be bought.
--Macaulay.
Our zeal should be according to knowledge. --Sprat.
Note: According to has been called a prepositional phrase,
but strictly speaking, according is a participle in the
sense of agreeing, acceding, and to alone is the
preposition.
According as, precisely as; the same as; corresponding to
the way in which. According as is an adverbial phrase, of
which the propriety has been doubted; but good usage
sanctions it. See According, adv.
Is all things well, According as I gave directions?
--Shak.
The land which the Lord will give you according as
he hath promised. --Ex. xii. 25.
