accordnoun詞源 1/əˈkɔːd/

• 1

  Agreement 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

  entertainmentlifestylemusicAgreement in pitch and tone; harmony, musical concord.

  • Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
  • In a languid and mysterious chant Sister Clara raised her voice, and her acolytes kept accord on their mandolines […].
• 3

  Agreement or harmony of things in general.

  • the accord of light and shade in painting
• 4

  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.
• 5

  lawAn 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

  An international agreement.

  • The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
• 7

  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.

accordverb詞源 2/əˈkɔːd/

• 1

  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

  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

  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.
• 4

  To agree in pitch and tone.

• 5

  lawTo 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.
• 6

  obsoleteTo give consent.

• 7

  archaicTo arrive at an agreement.