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p. a.	1.	Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. According to him, every person was to be bought. - Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. - Sprat. 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.
adv.	1.	Accordingly; correspondingly.

Adj.	1.	according - (followed by `to') as reported or stated by; "according to historians"
	2.	according - (followed by `to') in agreement with or accordant with; "according to instructions"

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