coincide

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If two special days coincide, the minister may read the Lessons of either, except that, on Advent

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  1. intransitive verb To occupy the same relative position or the same area in space.
  2. intransitive verb To happen at the same time or during the same period.
  3. intransitive verb To correspond exactly; be identical.
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  • All meanings coincide, all answers are condensed to one or none. —  FSFMagazine,July2007
  • With the others this and practice at the bar seemed not well to coincide, and so not many of them worked farms, except on an inconsiderable scale. —  Autobiography of Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston
  • Our operations coincide -- but only because our interests coincide. —  F ;SF - vol 090 issue 03 - March 1996
  • When the metaphorical and the literal coincide, the presence of the All is confirmed. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 04-05 - October-November 1995
  • This time Irene timed her throw to coincide, and the cherry bomb detonated as the dragon's apparent flame struck. —  Centaur Aisle
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coincide:   coincided ·  coinciding ·  coincides
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  1. Medieval Latin coincidere : Latin co-, co- + Latin incidere, to occur; see incident.

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  1. = French coïncider = Spanish Portuguese coincidir = Italian coincidere, from Middle Latin *coincidere, from Latin co-, together, + incidere, fall on, from in, on, + cadere, fall: see cadent and incident.
 

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