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.
Note: 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,Shak.
According as I gave directions?
The land which the Lord will give you according as he hath promised.Ex. xii. 25.
Ac·cord·ing
adv.
Accordingly; correspondingly. [Obs.] Shak.
