Ac*cord" (#), n. [OE. acord, accord, OF. acort, acorde, F. accord, fr. OF. acorder, F. accorder. See Accord, v. t.]
1.
Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
A mediator of an accord and peace between them.
Bacon.
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.
Sir J. Davies.
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. Law
An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.
Blackstone.
With one accord, with unanimity.
They rushed with one accord into the theater.
Acts xix. 29.
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Ac*cord", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accorded; p. pr. & vb. n. According.] [OE. acorden, accorden, OF. acorder, F. accorder, fr. LL. accordare; L. ad + cor, cordis, heart. Cf. Concord, Discord, and see Heart.]
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.
Spenser.
All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning.
South.
3.
To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.
"According his desire."
Spenser.
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Ac*cord", 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.
Shak.
Thy actions to thy words accord.
Milton.
2.
To agree in pitch and tone.
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