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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Accord \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Accord \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Accord \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: accord n 1: harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters; "the two parties were in accord" [syn: {agreement}] [ant: {disagreement}] 2: concurrence of opinion; "we are in accord with your proposal" [syn: {conformity}, {accordance}] 3: a written agreement between two states or sovereigns [syn: {treaty}, {pact}] 4: sympathetic compatibility [syn: {rapport}] v 1: go together; "The colors don't harmonize" [syn: {harmonize}, {consort}, {fit in}, {agree}] 2: allow to have "grant a privilege" [syn: {allot}, {grant}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Accord, NY Zip code(s): 12404 From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: ACCORD, n. Harmony.
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