making two or more things agree with one another.—Among divines, it is applying what is originally said of one person, or thing, to another: Thus the words of Isaiah to the Jews of his time, are, by our Saviour, accommodated to his contemporaries, and by St Paul to his.—In law, it signifies the amicable issue of a debate, which is effected sometimes by mediation of friends, sometimes by submission, and sometimes by a division of the subject in debate.