Ac*cord"ing (&?;), adv. Accordingly; correspondingly. [Obs.]
Shak.
Ac*cord"ing , p. a. 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.
&fist; According to has been
called a prepositional phrase, but strictly speaking, according is a participle in the sense
of agreeing, acceding, and to alone is the
preposition.
According as, precisely
as; the same
as; corresponding to the way in which. According as is an adverbial phrase, of which the
propriety has been doubted; but good usage sanctions it. See According, adv.
Is all things well,
According as I gave
directions?
Shak.
The land which the Lord will give you according as he hath promised.
Ex. xii. 25.
Hear it pronounced