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.
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.
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.