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Accord   /əkˈɔrd/   Listen
noun
Accord  n.  
1.
Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent. "A mediator of an accord and peace between them." "These all continued with one accord in prayer."
2.
Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones. "Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays."
3.
Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
4.
Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; preceded by own; as, of one's own accord. "That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap." "Of his own accord he went unto you."
5.
(Law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.
With one accord, with unanimity. "They rushed with one accord into the theater."


verb
Accord  v. t.  (past & past part. accorded; pres. part. according)  
1.
To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; followed by to. (R.) "Her hands accorded the lute's music to the voice."
2.
To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies. "When they were accorded from the fray." "All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning."
3.
To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise. "According his desire."


Accord  v. i.  
1.
To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks. "My heart accordeth with my tongue." "Thy actions to thy words accord."
2.
To agree in pitch and tone.





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... herself). What a virtuous king he is! Would any other man hesitate when he saw such a pearl of a woman coming of her own accord? ...
— Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works • Kaalidaasa
... messenger." With the last words he struck into a deep ravine which led to the remotest solitudes of the glen, and pursued his way in dreadful silence. No human face of Scot or English cheered or scared him as he passed along. The tumult had so alarmed the poor cottagers, that with one accord they fled to their kindred on the hills, amid those fastnesses of nature, to await tidings from the valley, of when all should be still, and they might return in peace. Halbert looked to the right and to the left; no smoke, curling its ...
— The Scottish Chiefs • Miss Jane Porter
... here of your own accord, because you loved me," said the Duke. "And you shall not go till you have told me why you have ...
— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm
... God governs the world; the actual working of His government, the carrying out of His plan, is the history of the world. This plan philosophy strives to comprehend; for only that which has been developed as the result of it possesses bona fide reality. That which does not accord with it is negative, worthless existence. Before the pure light of this divine Idea—which is no mere Ideal—the phantom of a world whose events are an incoherent concourse of fortuitous circumstances, utterly vanishes. Philosophy wishes to ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various
... loveliness, or all poetry and art is but an unsown, unplanted, rootless flower, crowning a somewhat symmetrical heap of stones. The man who sees no beauty in its petals, finds no perfume in its breath, may well accord it the parentage of the stones; the man whose heart swells beholding it will be ready to think it has roots that ...
— Thomas Wingfold, Curate • George MacDonald


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