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The act or right of purchasing before others. Specifically:

One who holds a prior to purchase certain public land. Abbott.

Of or pertaining to preëmption; having power to preëmpt; preëmpting.

One who preëmpts; esp., one who preëmpts public land.

Pertaining to preëmption.

To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.

An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. "To come to terms of accommodation." Macaulay.

Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent. A mediator of an accord and peace between them. Bacon. These all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts i. 14.

Agreement; harmony; conformity. "In strict accordance with the law." Macaulay.

In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.

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.

Agreement; reconcilement. [Obs.] Gower.

a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent. To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion. Macaulay.

Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages. There is a close affinity between imposture and credulity. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.

A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.

but to call this or that subject of Æthelstan "an Anglo-Saxon" is simply nonsense. E. A. Freeman.

Preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement. Kent.

One opposed to Freemasonry. -- An`ti*ma*son"ic, a.