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noun

Concordance n.

Agreement; accordance. "Contrasts, and yet concordances."

(Gram.) Concord; agreement. (Obs.)

An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place. "His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance."

A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... translated from a foreign language is given, our dramatic singers have been most thoroughly demoralized. The translations of French and Italian operas are generally made by blunderers, or at least scarcely ever by people who would be able to effect between the music and the translation a similar concordance to that which existed in the original version, as, for example, I tried to do in the most important parts of Gluck's "Iphigenia". The result has been in the course of time that the singers got into the way of neglecting altogether ...

— Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1 • Francis Hueffer (translator)

... the air is generally by day twenty-nine degrees, and by night twenty-six degrees, of the centigrade thermometer. This temperature seemed to us to be still much more elevated, from the feeling of heat which we experienced. The want of concordance between the instruments and the sensations must be attributed to the continual irritation of the skin excited by the mosquitos. An atmosphere filled with venomous insects always appears to be more heated than it is in reality. We were horribly tormented in the day by mosquitos and the jejen, ...

— Equinoctial Regions of America V2 • Alexander von Humboldt

... the oldest Professor and the most learned Grecian at Paris, has just issued the first number of a Dictionnaire du Style poetique dans la Langue Grecque. This dictionary is in fact a concordance of Greek, Latin, and French poetry. It offers a complete and curious illustration of the origin and growth of figurative words and phrases, and of their transfer from one language to another. The word anchor, for instance, was one of the earliest among the Greeks, ...

— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 • Various

... the desk near Mr. Tutt's right hand—the New York Code of Civil Procedure, an almanac, a Shakesperean concordance and a Bible. ...

— Tutt and Mr. Tutt • Arthur Train

... Series embodies an attempt to present to Western scholars, in trustworthy texts and translations, some of the greatest works of the Hindu literature and philosophy and religion, together with certain instruments, such as the Vedic Concordance or the History of the Beast-fable, for their critical study or elucidation. Some account of the volumes completed or in progress may be found at the end of this book. Dr. Ryder, passing by for the present the more momentous themes of religion and philosophy, has in this volume attempted to show ...

— The Little Clay Cart - Mrcchakatika • (Attributed To) King Shudraka

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