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Accord

//əˈkɔɹd// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action. countable, uncountable

    "These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Iesus, and with his brethen."

  2. 2
    sympathetic compatibility wordnet
  3. 3
    A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord. countable, uncountable

    "Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays."

  4. 4
    a written agreement between two states or sovereigns wordnet
  5. 5
    Agreement or harmony of things in general. countable, uncountable

    "the accord of light and shade in painting"

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  1. 6
    concurrence of opinion wordnet
  2. 7
    A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof. countable

    "Oriental fragrances often incorporate an accord referred to as amber. It is a perfumery accord using vanilla, olibanum, balsamic resins, and citrus to varying degrees."

  3. 8
    harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters wordnet
  4. 9
    An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit. countable, uncountable

    "Accord is a satisfaction agreed upon between the party injuring and the party injured ; which , when performed , is a bar of all actions upon this account"

  5. 10
    An international agreement. countable, uncountable

    "The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War."

  6. 11
    Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act. countable, uncountable

    "Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord."

Verb
  1. 1
    To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust. transitive

    "[H]er hands accorded the Lutes muſicke to the voice; […]"

  2. 2
    allow to have wordnet
  3. 3
    To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize. transitive

    "But Satyrane forth ſtepping, did them ſtay / And with faire treaty pacifide their yre; / Then when they were accorded from the fray, […]"

  4. 4
    go together wordnet
  5. 5
    To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant. intransitive

    "For things are often ſpoke, and ſeldome meant, / But that my heart accordeth with my tongue, […]"

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  1. 6
    To agree in pitch and tone. intransitive
  2. 7
    To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award. transitive

    "And, when the blinding tears had fallen, I saw That column, and those corpses, and the moon, And felt the poisonous tooth of hunger gnaw My vitals, I rejoiced, as if the boon Of senseless death would be accorded soon;— […]"

  3. 8
    To give consent. intransitive, obsolete
  4. 9
    To arrive at an agreement. archaic, intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English accord, from Old French acort, from acorder (see verb below).

Etymology 2

From Middle English accorden, acorden, borrowed from Old French acorder (compare modern French accord and accorder), from Vulgar Latin *accordāre, from Latin concordāre via prefix substitution (with Latin ad-), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr ~ *ḱr̥d-, and thus distantly related to English heart (via Proto-Germanic *hertô).

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