Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Scots Superiority; mastery.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A step; a stair.
- n. A step or degree in a series; a degree in order or rank; degree; order of precedence or merit.
- n. Pleasure; satisfaction: especially in the phrases to take, receive, or accept in gree (that is, to take, receive, or accept kindly or with favor).
- To agree; consent.
- To live in amity.
- To reconcile (parties at variance).
Wiktionary
- n. archaic Pleasure, goodwill, satisfaction.
- n. obsolete One of a flight of steps.
- n. obsolete A stage in a process; a degree of rank or station.
- n. Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).
- n. geometry, obsolete A degree.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Good will; favor; pleasure; satisfaction; -- used esp. in such phrases as: to take in
gree ; to accept ingree ; that is, to take favorably. - n. Obs. or Scot. Rank; degree; position.
- n. Obs. or Scot. The prize; the honor of the day.
- v. obsolete To agree.
- n. A step.
Etymologies
- From Old French gré, from Latin gradum ("step"). Compare degree, grade. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English gre, from Old French, step, from Latin gradus; see grade. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Would owners of so called gree energy and goofy fake "carbon credit" companies be helping push a global warming agenda?”
“I never thought that things good to eat could be so dis'gree'ble.”
“Brer Rabbit say he willin 'fer ter lef' de whole case wid Brer Tarrypin, en Brer Wolf say he 'gree'ble.”
Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation
“Day in en day out dey wuk wid dis puzzlement; let 'lone dat, dey sot up nights; en bimeby dey 'gree' mungs deyse'f dat dey better make up wid”
Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation
“You _dis'gree'ble_ thing!" shrieked Kathie, looking at her and feeling dreadfully, her eyebrows knotting up like two little squirming snakes.”
“It don't print stories with piruts and honist young men into 'em, making the piruts splendid fellers and the honist young men dis'gree'ble idiots — so that our darters very nat'rally prefer the piruts to the honist young idiots; but it gives us good square American literatoor.”
“The following from "The Ship of Fools," indicate at once the clime to which they are native, "gree,”
“{71e} The French word "gree," for agreement or composition, is familiar among our early poets and writers, and occurs in the old statutes.”
“Nex 'day, Brer Fox sont word by Mr. Mink, en skuze hisse'f kaze he wuz too sick fer ter come, en he ax Brer Rabbit fer ter come en take dinner wid him, en Brer Rabbit say he wuz' gree'ble.”
“All de creeturs wuz 'gree'ble, en dey put out ter Brer Rabbit house.”
Lists
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Deprefixed words
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clement, witting, ravel, whelm, fettered, licit, couth, bridled, wieldy, kempt, ingenuous, iterate and 116 more...
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sycamore, wipfel, rohlingsspindel, gorgeous, flamboyance, anschmiegen, pengpeng, zuckerhut, revolver, troubleshooter, breeze, dandy and 228 more...
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Bear With Me
Phrases including things that bear or are borne (with the meaning "to support," "to hold," or "to carry").
witness, grudge, burden, repeating, weight, strain, child, fruit, examination, blame, suffering, cross and 50 more...
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fbharjo are you in greement Apr 17, 2009
reesetee To "bear the gree" means to be assured of decisive victory. Feb 8, 2008