accord

[Ac*cord·]

If you clean your room of your own accord, your parents will be pleased it means you did it without having to be asked. They might even accord you an extra privilege. Warring nations make peace accords.

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

Noun
sympathetic compatibility

Noun
a written agreement between two states or sovereigns

Noun
concurrence of opinion; "we are in accord with your proposal"

Noun
harmony of people''s opinions or actions or characters; "the two parties were in agreement"

Verb
allow to have; "grant a privilege"

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Verb
go together; "The colors don''t harmonize"; "Their ideas concorded"

v. t.
Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.

v. t.
Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.

v. t.
Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.

v. t.
Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.

v. t.
An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.

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

v. t.
To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.

v. t.
To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.

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

v. i.
To agree in pitch and tone.

Accord

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.

These all continued with one accord in prayer.

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.

Of his own accord he went unto you.
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.

Accord
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.
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.

All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning.
3. To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise. "According his desire." Spenser.
Accord
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.

Thy actions to thy words accord.
2. To agree in pitch and tone.
Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.
To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.

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Usage Examples

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.

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Other Usage Examples

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.