Accord
Ac·cord
Accord
n.
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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.
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Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.
Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
- Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
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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.
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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.
Phrases & Compounds
- With one accord
- with unanimity.
Accord
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Accorded; p. pr. & vb. n. According
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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.
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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.
- To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.
Accord
v. i.
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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.
- To agree in pitch and tone.