Accord

Ac·cord

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.
    — Acts i. 14.
  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.
    — Lev. xxv. 5.
    Of his own accord he went unto you.
    — 2 Cor. vii. 17.
  5. An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit. (Law)
    They rushed with one accord into the theater.
    — Acts xix. 29.

Phrases & Compounds

With one accord
with unanimity.

Accord

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Accorded; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
    — Sidney.
  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.

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.