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-- followed by with. Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly suitable to, and coincident with, the ruling principles of a virtuous and well- inclined man. South.

Coincident.

With coincidence.

Not coincident; not agreeing in time, in place, or principle.

Not coincident.

Not coincident as to motive or end. His own ends, which must needs be often eccentric to those of his master. Bacon.

The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line. Equator of the sun or of a planet (Astron.), the great circ…

fected it in 1663. A small concave mirror in the axis of this telescope, having its focus coincident with that of the large reflector, transmits the light received from the latter back through a hole in its center to the eyepiece placed behind it. -- Gregorian year, the year as now reckoned according to the Gregorian…

The quality of being incoincident; want of coincidence. [R.]

Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident. "A present recompense." "A present pardon." Shak. An ambassador . . . desires a present audience. Massinger.

Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.

Having eyes that quint; having eyes with axes not coincident; cross-eyed.

in pitch; unisonant; unisonous; as, unison passages, in which two or more parts unite in coincident sound.