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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Definitions accord noun  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 1:14 Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays. - Sir J. Davies. Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting. 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. - Leviticus xxv. 5 Of his own accord he went unto you. - 2 Corinthians 7:17 (cleanup) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit. - Blackstone.'' Derived phrase With one accord, with unanimity. :They rushed with one accord into the theater. - Acts 19:29 verb  (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to. Quotations Her hands accorded the lute's music to the voice. - Sidney. (transitive) To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies. Quotations 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. (transitive) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise. Quotations According his desire. - Spenser. (intransitive) To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks. Quotations My heart accordeth with my tongue. - Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI, III-i Thy actions to thy words accord. - Milton, Paradise regained (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone. Etymology: From acord, Middle English, accord, acorden, accorden, through acort, acorde, and acorder, confer French French, accord and accorder, and in turn from accordare; ad + cor, cordis, heart. Confer concord, discord, and see heart.      Full Definition of accord  Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish     Show 51015202550 results per page. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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