Definition of "according as" [according as]

• Corresponding to the way in which; precisely as. (conjunction)
• Depending on whether; if. (conjunction)

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• "Exegetes who find metre in the Psalms are of four schools, according as they explain"
• "King Philip my grandfather told me, that one should reward one's servants, one more and another less, according as to how they perform their service; and he used to say, moreover, that no one could be a good ruler of a land, if he did not know how to refuse as boldly asto grant."
• "The latter are strictly diocesan or interdiocesan, according as they are confined to a single diocese, or are scattered over several."