Dictionary entry

Concordance

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Con‐cord″ance (?), n. [F., fr. LL. concordantia.] 1. Agreement; accordance.

Contrasts, and yet concordances.

Carlyle.

2. (Gram.) Concord; agreement. Aschlam.

3. An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.

His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.

Macaulay.

4. A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book.