ppl. a. [f. AGREE v. + -ED.]
† 1. Pleased, satisfied, contented. Obs.
1418. Hen. V., in Ellis, Orig. Lett., III. 27, I. 64. That he be contented and agreed in the best wyse as longeth vnto hym.
c. 1450. Lonelich, Graal, II. 233. Thanne the kyng agreed he was of the veniawnce in that plas.
† 2. Made pleasing or satisfactory. Obs.
c. 1400. Epiph. (Turnb., 1843), 113. Unto God I say in sothenes Aboue all this agreed is hur mekenes.
3. Brought into harmony; united in feeling or sentiment.
a. 1440. Sir Degrev., 1770. Giff ȝe holde us a-gret, Shall I never ete mete.
1535. Coverdale, Amos iii. 3. Maye twaine walk together excepte they be agreed amonge them selues? Ibid. (1611). Can two walke together, except they be agreed?
1851. Mrs. Browning, Casa Guidi Wind., 100. Our Tuscans … rising up agreed And bold.
4. Come to one and the same opinion; at one as to a matter in question.
1613. Shaks., Hen. VIII., V. iii. 87. Are you all agreed, Lords?
1659. Starkey, in Burton’s Diary (1828), IV. 353. We are agreed of the substance.
1769. Junius Lett., iii. 18. In the two next articles, I think, we are agreed.
1833. Ht. Martineau, Brooke Farm, iv. 47. He and I were never agreed about matters of that kind.
1842. J. H. Newman, Par. Serm. (ed. 2), V. xvi. 261. He professes to be agreed with me.
5. Arranged or settled by common consent.
1613. Shaks., Hen. VIII., V. iii. 87. It stands agreed … by all voices.
1640. Bp. Hall, Chr. Mod., 8/2. Retired to an agreed solitariness.
1732. Pope, Ess. on Man, IV. 219. Heroes are much the same, the point’s agreed.
1806. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., IV. 256. The best standard is not yet agreed.
In this sense agreed on is now more usual.
1596. Shaks., Tam. Shr., II. i. 272. Your dowry ’greed on.
1651. Hobbes, Leviathan, II. xxv. 125. To be judged by men agreed on by Consent.
1741. Richardson, Pamela (1824), I. 221. To take leave of them and receive her agreed-on portion.
Mod. They met at the place agreed on.
6. As a rejoinder: Consented to; granted, admitted, or accepted. = ‘I agree to the proposal.’
1794. Southey, Bot. Bay Ecl., ii. Wks. II. 75. Suppose we leave awhile this stubborn soil, To eat our dinner and to rest from toil. Agreed. Yon tree … Forms with its shadowy boughs a cool retreat.
