accord

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.

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

   “a mediator of an accord and peace between them”

2. (countable, uncountable)A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.

   “Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.”

3. (countable, uncountable)Agreement or harmony of things in general.

   “the accord of light and shade in painting”

4. (countable)A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.

   “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.”

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

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

5. (countable, uncountable)An 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”

6. (countable, uncountable)An international agreement.

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

7. (countable, uncountable)Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.

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

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

verb

1. (transitive)To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

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

2. (transitive)To 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, […]”

   “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; […]”

3. (intransitive)To 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, […]”

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

4. (intransitive)To agree in pitch and tone.
5. (transitive)To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.

   “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;— […]”

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

6. (intransitive, obsolete)To give consent.
7. (archaic, intransitive)To arrive at an agreement.