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Definition of Accord

1. Noun. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters. "The two parties were in agreement"

2. Verb. Go together. "Their ideas concorded"

3. Noun. Concurrence of opinion. "We are in accord with your proposal"

4. Verb. Allow to have. "Grant a privilege"

5. Noun. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.

6. Noun. Sympathetic compatibility.

Definition of Accord

1. n. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.

2. v. t. To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.

3. v. i. To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.

Definition of Accord

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

2. Noun. A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord. ¹

3. Noun. Agreement or harmony of things in general. ¹

4. Noun. (context: legal) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit. ¹

5. Noun. (context: international law) An international agreement. ¹

6. Noun. (context: obsolete) Assent ¹

7. Noun. Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act. ¹

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

9. Verb. (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize. ¹

10. Verb. (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony. ¹

11. Verb. (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone. ¹

12. Verb. (context: transitive dated legal) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award. ¹

13. Verb. (context: intransitive obsolete) To give consent. ¹

14. Verb. (context: intransitive archaic) To arrive at an agreement. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Accord

1. to bring into agreement [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Accord

1. 1. To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; followed by to. "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." Origin: OE. Acorden, accorden, OF. Acorder, F. Accorder, fr. LL. Accordare; L. Ad + cor, cordis, heart. Cf. Concord, Discord, and see Heart. 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Accord

accomplishing accomplishment accomplishments accomplisht accompt accomptable accomptant accomptants accomptaunt accompted

accompting accompts accorage accoraged accorages accord (current term) accord and satisfaction accordable accordance accordance of rights

accordances accordancy accordant accordantly accordaunce accorded accorder accorders accordest accordeth

Literary usage of Accord

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of the English Law of Contract and of Agency in Its Relation to by William Reynell Anson (1906)
"accord and satisfaction. accord and satisfaction is an agreement not necessarily under seal ... Otherwise the agreement is an accord without a satisfaction. ..."

2. Report by Tasmania Dept. of Mines (1902)
"The Bon accord Mine. Section 4537-93M. 80 acres. ... This section and the Bon accord might be worked as one mine with advantage, and a main shaft sunk to ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"... hut the presence of a small amount of ceria brings them in accord, as a bit of wax will bring into accord two tuning forks of slightly different pitch. ..."

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