Brewer's: To Age as accords

To do what is fit and right (Scotch law term). Here “Age” is from the Latin agere, to do.

“To set about the matter in a regular manner, or, as he termed it ... to “age as accords.””

—Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet, chap. 2.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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