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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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... former case may be assumed to be as fully in accord with the laws of the pupil's mind as the teacher could make it. In short, the topic under consideration had to be carefully broken into its parts, and various keen questions touching the meaning and value of each had to be conceived in order that ...
— How To Study and Teaching How To Study • F. M. McMurry
... out of reach. It was a fine chase while it lasted, though annoying; yet one could hardly help feeling amused at the way they wallowed along—just like a school of exaggerated porpoises. At last, after nearly two hours of the fun, they seemed to have had enough of it, and with one accord headed seaward at a greatly accelerated pace, as who should say, "Well, s' long, boys; company's very pleasant and all that, but we've got important business over at Fiji, and can't stay fooling around here any longer." In a quarter of an hour they were out of sight, leaving us disgusted and ...
— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen
... once about half the breast of the jam fell forward into the stream. Bob uttered an involuntary cry. But the practised rivermen must have foreseen this, for none were caught. At once the other logs at the breast began to topple of their own accord into the stream. The splashes threw the water high like the explosions of shells, and the thundering of the falling and grinding timbers resembled the roar of artillery. The pattern of the river changed, at first almost imperceptibly, then more and more rapidly. ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White
... ask you graciously to accord me the honor of your hand. If you will grant me this favor I will endeavor to ...
— His Hour • Elinor Glyn
... find his mother!" she said again and again to herself. Yet it was not so wonderful. He had told her the name of the town, and she might have come here any time of her own accord. But it was strange and beautiful that the accident had brought her straight to the door of the house where he had been born and brought up! What a beautiful, happy boyhood he must have had with a mother like that! ...
— The Man of the Desert • Grace Livingston Hill


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