A mediator of an accord and peace between them.
--Bacon.
These all continued with one accord in prayer.
--Acts i. 14.
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. --Lev. xxv. 5.
Of his own accord he went unto you. --2 Cor. vii.
17.
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. --Acts
xix. 29.
Her hands accorded the lute's music to the voice.
--Sidney.
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. To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as,
to accord to one due praise. ``According his desire.''
--Spenser.
My heart accordeth with my tongue. --Shak.
Thy actions to thy words accord. --Milton.
2. To agree in pitch and tone.