Accord

for forms see prec. [a. OFr. acord, acorde agreement, f. acorde-r: see ACCORD v.]

  1.  Reconciliation, agreement, harmony; concurrence of opinion, will, or action; consent.

1297.  R. Glouc., 237 (R.). Some frend hym byþoȝte bet, & bytuene hem gonne ryde, And made acord bytuene hem.

1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls Ser.), III. 247. Molimicius was i-buried by þe temple of Acord [juxta templum Concordiæ].

1393.  Gower, Conf., Prol. 1049. In heven is pees and al accorde But helle is full of such discorde.

c. 1450.  Merlin, i. 20. Thou purchasest a-corde be-twene the and thi husbonde.

a. 1520.  Myrroure of Our Ladye, 61. He behoteth that in eche lande where eny Monastrery of thys order ys founded, there shall be encresed peace and accorde.

1619.  R. Jones, Recant. Serm., in Phenix, 1708, II. 495. True Accord is an Union of … the Will and Affections.

1784.  Cowper, Task, VI. 380. Thus harmony and family accord Were driv’n from Paradise.

1800.  Wordsworth, Brothers, Wks. I. 110. He fed the spindle of his youngest child, Who, in the open air, with due accord Of busy hands and back and forward steps, Her large round wheel was turning.

  † b.  To fall at or of accord: to be reconciled. To be of, at accord with: to agree with. Obs.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Doctor’s T., 25. And for my werke no thing wol I axe; My lord and I ben fully at accord. Ibid., Frankl. T., 13. That pryuely she fil of his accord To take hym for hir housbonde and hir lord.

c. 1430.  Lydg., Bochas (1554), I. viii. 12 a. Poetes make thereof no mencion … how they fell at accorde.

1523.  Ld. Berners, Froissart, I. viii. 6. They besought and requyred eche other among them selfe to be of a peasable accorde. Ibid., I. xiv. 14. That the sagis of the realme might … fall at acorde howe the realme shuld be gouerned.

1600.  Shaks., A. Y. L., I. i. 67. Sweet Masters bee patient, for your Fathers remembrance, be at accord.

1704.  Ray, Creation, Ded. 3. I am of accord with him.

  c.  With (of obs.) one accord: with entire agreement, with one consent, with unanimity.

1375.  Lay-Folks Mass-Bk., B. 541. Make þou, gode lorde, my body & my soule of one a-corde.

1393.  Gower, Conf., III. VII. 269. And thus of one accorde upright To Rome at ones home ayein They torne.

1535.  Coverdale, 1 Kings xxii. 13. Beholde, The wordes of y^e prophetes are with one acorde good before the kynge.

1611.  Bible, Acts xix. 29. They rushed with one accord into the Theatre.

1878.  M. A. Brown, Nadeschda, 34. With one accord On castleyard and all around The people sink on bended knee.

  2.  A formal act of reconciliation, or agreement; a treaty of peace, a treaty generally.

1297.  R. Glouc., 388. Þys acord was vaste ymade þoru stronge treuþe ynou. Vaste yplyȝt in eyþer syde, þat non ne wyþ drou.

c. 1440.  Generydes, 6399. The corde is made, the mortuall werre is sese, Betwix hym and the Sowdon all is pece.

1480.  Caxton, Cron. Eng., ccxxxi. 247. The pees and the acord y made bitwene the ij kynges.

1577–87.  Holinshed, Chron., III. 889/2. The pope, whom they named as conseruator of the accord.

1614.  Raleigh, Hist. World, II. 275. Thirdly the accord which Israel made with these crafty Canaanites, was without warrant.

1700.  Dryden, Fables, Pal. & Arcite, 1034. If both are satisfy’d with this accord Swear by the laws of knighthood on my sword.

1860.  Motley, Netherlands, I. v. 240 (1868). Antwerp might perish, before a general accord with Holland and Zeeland could be made.

  3.  Law. A private or extrajudicial arrangement.

1625.  Sir H. Finch, Law, 181 (1636). Accord is an agreement betweene the parties themselues.

1768.  Blackstone, Comm., III. 15. 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.

  4.  Agreement or harmonious correspondence of things or their properties, as of colors or tints. esp. of sounds: Agreement in pitch and tone; harmony.

c. 1384.  Chaucer, H. of Fame, 696. Mo loue dayes and acordes Then on Instrumentes be acordes.

1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R. (1495), III. iv. 51. Pyctagoras callyth the soule Armony, acorde of melodye.

1483.  Caxton, G. Leg., 412/1. Somtyme they sange psalmes aboute the aulter … by accorde to gyder.

1563.  Barnabe Googe, Eglogs (Arb.), 110. Or yf it were the sweete accorde that syngyng Byrdes dyd keepe.

1605.  Bacon, Adv. Learn., I. 32. In that fayned relation of Orpheus Theater … all beasts and birds assembled … listening vnto the ayres and accords of the Harpe.

1659.  Hammond, On Psalm xxiv. 7. 133. That rendring can have no accord with the Hebrew.

1777.  Sir W. Jones, Ess., ii. 200. Our boasted harmony, with all its fine accords, and numerous parts, paints nothing, expresses nothing.

1826.  Scott, Woodst. (1832), I. i. 5. Bating an occasional temptation to warble along with the accord, he behaved himself as decorously as any of the congregation.

1867.  Mrs. Oliphant, Madonna Mary (Tauchn.), I. xiii. 161. It was a strange sort of position and strangely out of accord with her character and habits.

1879.  G. C. Harlan, Eyesight, ii. 15. The color of the iris is usually in accord with the general coloring of the individual.

  † 5.  Assent to a proposal or request; permission, grant. Obs.

1393.  Gower, Conf., I. 102. Though it be nought with her accorde.

1483.  Caxton, G. Leg., 301/1. Som monkes by thaccorde of Charles had impetred and goten of Nycholas the pope the body of Saynt Urban the pope.

1602.  Shaks., Ham., I. ii. 123. This gentle and vnforc’d accord of Hamlet Sits smiling to my heart.

  b.  Of (by, on obs.) one’s own accord: by one’s unsolicited assent; of one’s own spontaneous motion.

c. 1450.  Lonelich, Holy Grail, xiii. 102. And whanne king Eualach herd this word, Thus thanne dide he be his owne Acord.

1555.  Fardle of Facions, Pref. 9. Thenhabitours ouer all became milded and wittied, shaking of (euen of their owne accorde) the bruteshe outrages.

1611.  Shaks., Wint. T., II. iii. 63. On mine owne accord, Ile off, But first, Ile do my errand.

1611.  Bible, 2 Cor. viii. 17. But being more forward, of his owne accord he went into you.

1697.  Dryden, Virgil, Past., vii. 13. Your lowing Heifers, of their own accord, At wat’ring time will seek the neighb’ring Ford.

1862.  A. Trollope, Orley Farm, xiv. 109. She had no idea of giving up Felix of her own accord, if he were still willing to take her.