accord

plural accords

1. countableuncountableAgreement of opinion, will, or action.

   a mediator of an accord and peace between them

   1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC

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

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 1:14

   Synonyms: consent, assent

2. countableuncountableentertainmentAgreement in pitch and tone; harmony, musical concord.

   Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.

   17th century, Sir John Davies, The Self-Subsistence of the Soul

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   In a languid and mysterious chant Sister Clara raised her voice, and her acolytes kept accord on their mandolines […].

   1917, Aleister Crowley, Moonchild, Weiser, published 2010, page 146

3. countableuncountableAgreement or harmony of things in general.

   the accord of light and shade in painting

4. countableperfumeryA distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.

   Fougères are built on an accord between lavender and coumarin, with every conceivable variation and elaboration.

   2010, Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez, Perfumes: The A–Z Guide, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 22

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   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.

   2010, Daphna Havkin-Frenkel, Faith C. Belanger, Handbook of Vanilla Science and Technology, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN

   Accord is the perfumer's word for a perfume formulation that can be incorporated into any perfume calling for a particular note.

   2016, Valerie Ann Worwood, The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy […] , New World Library, →ISBN, page 450

5. countableuncountablelawAn agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.

   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

   1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

6. countableuncountableinternational lawAn international agreement.

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

   Synonyms: treaty

7. countableuncountableVoluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.

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

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   That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 25:5

present singular third person accords · participle present according · participle past accorded · past accorded

1. transitiveTo make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

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

   The New Arcadia

   a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The Second Booke] Chapter 11”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC, folio 150, recto

2. transitiveTo bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.

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

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 532

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   All which Particulars (with many more of the like Nature) being confeſſedly knotty and difficult, can never be accorded, but by a competent Stock of critical Learning; […]

   1660 August 7 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar); first published 1715, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at St. Mary’s Church in Oxon, before the University, […]”, in Twelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, and upon Several Occasions, volume IV, London: […] G. James, for Jonah Bowyer […], →OCLC, pages 17–18

3. intransitiveTo agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.

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

   1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 132, column 2

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   Thy actions to thy words accord, thy words / To thy large heart give utterance due, thy heart / Conteins of good, wiſe, juſt, the perfect ſhape.

   1671, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 54, lines 9–11

   Let knowledge grow from more to more, / ⁠But more of reverence in us dwell; / ⁠That mind and soul, according well, / May make one music as before, / But vaster.

   1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Prologue”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page vi

   Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

   1910, Emerson Hough, “The Gateway, and Some Who Passed”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 29

   Synonyms: sit, agree

4. intransitiveTo agree in pitch and tone.
5. transitivelawTo grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.

   The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations will be the acid test of their good will.

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   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;— […]

   1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 217

   In respect of the protection of industrial property,[…]a refugee shall be accorded in the country in which he has his habitual residence the same protection as is accorded to nationals of that country.

   1951, United Nations, Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, article 14

   Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.

   1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57

   In the present case, and contrary to the Government’s submission, the Court considers that there is indeed a consensus amongst a substantial majority of the Contracting States of the Council of Europe towards allowing abortion on broader grounds than accorded under Irish law.

   2010 December 16, European Court of Human Rights, A, B and C v. Ireland, number 25579/05, marginal 235

   Synonyms: render

6. intransitiveobsoleteTo give consent.
7. archaicintransitiveTo arrive at an agreement.