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Entry 10 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Accord

/ək-ôrd'/ · Ac·cord · IPA /əˈkɔɹd/
01 n. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
  1. 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. 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. 3.
    Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
  4. 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. 5.
    An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.(Law)
    “They rushed with one accord into the theater.” — Acts xix. 29.
Phrases & compounds
With one accord — with unanimity.
02 v. t. To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.
imp. & p. p. Accorded; p. pr. & vb. n. According
  1. 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. 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. 3.
    To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.
03 v. i. To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.
  1. 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. 2.
    To agree in pitch and tone.