The Collaborative International Dictionary
According \Ac*cord"ing\, 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,
According as I gave directions?
--Shak.
The land which the Lord will give you according as
he hath promised.
--Ex. xii. 25.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 precisely as; the same as; corresponding to the way in which. 2 To the proportion or degree that. 3 Depending on whether.
Usage examples of "according as".
Our earthly fire also consumes more or less rapidly according as the object which it attacks is more or less combustible, so that human ingenuity has even succeeded in inventing chemical preparations to check or frustrate its action.
Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.