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.
