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t. & i. [O. Fr. a corder; Fr. accorder, from Low Lat. accordo = to be of one mind, from ac = ad = to; cor (gen it, cord is ) = the heart.] I. Transitive: 1. To make an alienated heart return again to the heart from which it has become separated; to adjust a difference between parties; to bring parties at variance to an harinonious agreement. "Which created much certainty, and accorded many suits. Sir M. Hale. 2. To adjust one thing to another; to make one thing correspond with another. "These mixed with art, and to due bounds confined Make and maintain the balance of the mind, The lights and shades whose well accordet strife Grace all the strength and colour of our life." Pope: E ay on Man, ii. 121. 3. To grant, to bestow, to yield. " Accord , good sir, the light Of your experience, to dispel this gloom. Words worth: Excur ., bk. v. This is now the most common use of the verb transitively. II. Intransitive: 1. Of persons, or their thoughts, feelings, words, or actions: (a) To concur in opinion, followed by with. "The wrangler, rather than accord with you, Will judge himself deceiv'd, and prove it too." Cowper: Conversation. (b) To a ent to a proposition or agree to a proposal: followed by to . whereunto the king accorded."-Paget to Pretre: State Papers, vol. xi., p. 164. 2. Of things: (a) Gen. To correspond, to agree; now followed by with , formerly also by to . "Thy actions to thy words accord." Milton : Paradise Regained , bk. iii. "The love of fame with this can ill accord." Byron: Hours of Idlene . "The development of succe ive parts in the individual generally seen to represent and accord with the development of succe ive beings in the same line of descent."-Darwin: Descent of Man , vol. 1, pt. i, ch. ví, p. 209. (b) Music: To chord with, to make melody or harmony with, especially the latter. Literally and figuratively: "The according music of a well-mirt state." Pope . (Ogilvie.) ac-cord', s. [Fr. accord ; Ital. accordo.] [ΔΟ CORD, v.] L The state of being in agreement with. 1. Reconciliation of hearts which or persons who before were alienated. "So Pallas spoke: the mandate from above The king obeyed. The virgin seed of Jove, In Mentor's form confirmed the full accord , And willing nations knew their lawful lord." Pope : Homer ; Ody ey xxiv. 630. 2. Agreement between independent minds, harmonious feeling or action, concurrence in sentiment or in action prompted by one common impulse. In this case it is not implied that there was previous alienation. "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place."- 4 cts ii. 1. 3. Of things: (a) Gen.: Agreement, fitne , just correspondence of things one to the other. "Beauty is nothing more but a just accord and mutual itual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution."-Dryden: Preface, Trans. of Dufresnoy, " Art of Painting ." (b) Poet.: Accordance. With their belief."" in accord Words worth: Excur., bk. iii. (c) Permi ion, leave. ( Webster .) (d) Music: Concord, concert, harmony of musical sounds. "Now in music it is one of the ordinariest flowers to fall from a discord, or hard tune, upon a sweet accord ." -Lord Bacon: Interpr. of Nature , ch. viii. (e) Painting: The harmony prevailing among the lights and shades of a picture. *(f) Oratory: Action in speaking corresponding with the words. (Minsheu.) IL The act of agreeing; consent, a ent. you must buy that peace With full accord to all our just demands." Shakesp.: Henry V., V. 2 III. That which produces, or is fitted to produce, an agreement, or itself agrees with anything. Spec. ( Law ): Satisfaction tendered to an injured party for the wrong done. If he accept it, an action for the wrong is barred. The proce is called accord and satisfaction . There are cases in which an action is barred if sufficient redre be offered, even though the tender made may have been rejected. Scots Law ( plural ). Accords of law : Things agreeable to law. ( Suppl . Jamie son's Scott. Dict .) The phrase "of his own accord," or "of her own accord," means that he or she has acted spontaneously, without a command or even a suggestion from others. but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you."-2 Cor . viii. 17. "Of its own accord" means spontaneously, by the operation of natural law. "That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap."-Lev. XXV. 5.