To aske or sue with other: to wishe: to agree: to be meete or conuenient: to appertaine: to meete with or ioyne to. Si villæ situs ita competit. Colum. If the situation of the farme voe so require, or be conuenient and meete. Non quærit æger medicum eloquentem, sed sanantem, si tamen ita competit: vt idem ille qui sanare potest, comptè deijs quæ facienda sunt disserat, boni consulet. Sene. But yet, if both fall out togither. Si cuncta competunt voto. Colum. If all things be as you would haue them, or agree to your desire. Si non competet: vt aut in villam fœnum portetur, aut in manipulos colligatur. Colum. If we shall haue no leyfnre, or if it shall not so fall out. Vbi recti angulorum competunt ictus. Plin. When the corners doe ioyne or meete euen, one with another. Quæro an libertates in testamento datæ competierint. Scæuola. Be any thing to the purpose. Si cuiusquam neptium suarum competeret ætas. Budæus. If any of his neeces were of age conuenient. Ita vt in patentes sossas, ora hiantia cæcarum competant. Colum. So that the open mouthes of the trenches vnder the earth meete and ioyne eucn with the ditches made in sight. Competit in eum actio. Quint. The action is meete for him or he may enter that action. Hoc illi competit. This is conuenient for him.

I. Act., to strive after something in company or together (post-class. and very rare): unum locum, Just. 13, 2, 1: unam speciosam (puellam), Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 59: bona, Cod. Th. 10, 10, 27, 6.—

II. Neutr., to meet or come together.

A. Lit. (very rare): ubi viae competunt, tum in compitis sacrificatur, Varr. L. L. 6, 25 Müll.: ubi recti angulorum conpetant ictuus, Plin. 2, 18, 16, 80: si cacumina harundinum in unum competunt, Col. 4, 17, 1; cf. id. 2, 2, 9.—

B. Trop.

1. Of time, to coincide, agree, meet, to happen, etc.; constr. with cum, the dat., in, or absol.: tempora reputantibus initium finemque miraculi cum Othonis exitu competisse, Tac. H. 2, 50 fin.: fasti adeo turbati, ut neque messium feriae aestati, neque vindemiarum auctumno competerent, Suet. Caes. 40: si competant coitus lunae in novissimum diem brumae, Plin. 16, 39, 74, 191; 18, 26, 63, 232; cf. impers.: si ita competit, ut idem ille, qui sanare potest, disserat, Sen. Ep. 75, 6.—

2. Of other things, to agree or coincide with something, to answer to it: tanto Othonis animo nequaquam corpus aut habitus competiit, Suet. Oth. 12.—Hence, absol., to be qualified, competent, appropriate, fit, suitable, to correspond: neque animo neque auribus aut linguā conpetere, Sall. H. 1, 88 Dietsch; Tac. A. 3, 46: dux velut captus animi non linguā, non auribus competere, id. H. 3, 73: aut assumere in causam naturas, quā competent, aut mitigare, quā repugnabunt, Quint. 4, 1, 17: ut vix ad arma capienda aptandaque pugnae competeret animus, Liv. 22, 5, 3: ei loci situs ita competit, Col. 8, 17, 3; cf. id. 9, 1, 1; 9, 5, 1: si cujusquam neptium suarum competeret aetas, Suet. Aug. 31; Col. 1, 6, 23; cf. id. 2, 8, 4; 2, 18, 2; 2, 20, 4; 4, 29 fin.—

3. To belong, be due to: actionem competere in equitem Romanum, Quint. 3, 6, 11: mihi adversus te actio competit, Dig. 19, 1, 25: poena competit in aliquem, App. M. 10, p. 243, 40: hereditas competit, alicui, Eum. Pan. Const. 4: libertas servo competere potest, Just. Inst. 1, 5, 1.—Hence,

1. com-pĕtens, entis, P. a.

a. Corresponding to: personae rebus, App. Flor. 16: ratio etymologiae cum sententiā vocabuli, Gell. 19, 13, 3.—Comp., Auct. Pan. Maxim. et Const. 7.—

b. Competent, legal: judex, Dig. 2, 1, 19: tribunal, ib. 3, 3, 35, 2.—

2. compĕten-ter, adv., suitably, properly, becomingly (post-class.): consulere alicui, Dig. 24, 3, 22: punire, ib. 22, 5, 16.— Comp.: disserere, Hier. adv. Helv. 2.— Sup.: uti Platone, App. Mag. p. 316, 22.