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. Shaks., Hen. V., I. ii. 182 (Qo.). Gouernment … being put into parts, Congrueth with a mutuall consent like musicke [1st Fo. congreeing, but context different]. Ibid. (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.
