Also 7 -ancy. [f. as prec. with the later suffix -ENCY.]
1. A running together in place or time; meeting, combination.
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. Wks. II. 121. Is it probable that God should … command concurrency of rest with extraordinary occasions of doleful events?
1605. Timme, Quersit., II. iv. 116. The equal concurrencie of sulphur and quicksilver.
a. 1635. Naunton, Fragm. Reg. (Arb.), 63. Where there was a concurrencie of old bloud with fidelity, a mixture which ever sorted with the Queens nature.
1660. trans. Paracelsus’ Archidoxis, I. IV. 41. There’s made a concurrency, or meeting of two likes.
1880. Ruskin, in 19th Cent., June, 942. The fields on each side of it are … cut through … by the wild crossings and concurrencies of three railroads.
2. Accordance in operation or opinion; cooperation; consent; = CONCURRENCE 3, 4.
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., IX. xlix. (1612), 226. But much more Concurrancie from one to all to stop that common Sore.
1618. Sir H. Carey, in Fortesc. Papers, 56. Soe generall a concurrency … in that opinion.
1651. Raleigh’s Ghost, 227. Books … written by the concurrency and direction of the Holy Ghost.
b. Something that concurs with other things; a concurring circumstance, etc.
1636. Blunt, Voy. Levant (1637), 40. This large compasse helps other concurrencies to justifie the Turkish reports.
† 3. Pursuit of the same object with another; competition, rivalry. Obs.
1597. Daniel, Civ. Wares, VIII. lxxxviii. To … shut out all other concurrency.
1632. Sir R. Le Grys, trans. Velleius Paterculus, 188. In their concurrency for the place of the Soveraign Bishop.
† 4. The quality or fact of being concurrent in jurisdiction; joint right or authority. Obs.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., p. lviii. The Admiral … hath … a concurrency with the Lord Mayor of London in the Conservatorship of the River of Thames.
1726. Ayliffe, Parerg., 69. But tho a Bishop could not have more than one riding Apparitor, yet he might have several Foot-Officers, according to the Doctors; especially if there was a Concurrency of Jurisdiction between him and the Archdeacon.
