a.; also acordant. [a. OFr. acordant, pr. pple. of acorder: see ACCORD v. and -ANT.]
1. Agreeing, consonant, conformable. Const. to, with; the latter is now the more common; perhaps a distinction should be observed between accordant to a rigid standard, accordant with a parallel circumstance.
c. 1315. Shoreham, 89. Acordaunt to thy trauayl, Lord, graunte me thy coroune.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Parlt. Foules, 203. Therwith a wynd … Made in the leuys grene a noyse softe Acordaunt to the bryddis song a lofte.
1393. Gower, Conf., III. 163. So thy prince for to queme Is nought to reson accordaunt.
1494. Fabyan, cxlvii. 133 (1811). An excedynge nombre, to be accordaunt with reason.
1579. News from North, in Thynne’s Animadv. (1865), Pref. 135. As neer accordant to the truth as I could.
1776. Boswell, Johnson (1816), II. 486. I went to the Cathedral, where I was very much delighted with the music, finding it to be peculiarly solemn, and accordant with the words of the service.
1822. Barry Cornwall, Miscell. Poems, Autumn. Man’s bounding spirit ebbs and swells more high Accordant to the billow’s loftier roll.
1852. Miss Yonge, Cameos, II. xxxi. 327 (1877). The motto must have been more accordant with the pride of London than with Henry’s good sense.
2. absol. † a. Agreeing or concurring in mind, agreeable. Obs. b. Agreeing in external action or motion; esp. of sounds: harmonious.
1599. Shaks., Much Ado, I. i. 14. Hee loued my niece your daughter, and meant to acknowledge it this night in a dance, and if hee found her accordant, hee meant to … instantly breake with you of it.
a. 1764. R. Lloyd, Poet. Wks., 1774, I. 151. While eager genius plumes her infant wings, And with bold impulse strikes th’ accordant strings.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol. (1875), II. II. xxxiii. 233. These data … are not as yet sufficiently extensive or accordant in different regions.
1850. Blackie, Æschylus, II. 100. Thy tale with mine accordant chimes.
1877. Kinglake, Crimea (ed. 6), III. iv. 357. That kind of understanding which leads to … accordant action.
† 3. Agreeing with any one’s character, or with circumstances; suitable, fitting, appropriate. Obs.
1413. Lydgate, Pylgr. Sowle, II. lviii. 56 (1859). Sothly, this lykenes is accordaunt.
1477. Caxton, Dictes, 149. It is acordaunt that his [Socrates’] dyctes and sayengis shold be had as well as others.
1574. trans. Littleton’s Tenures, 136 a. Yf tenaunt by the curteyse had aliened in fee with warrantie accordaunt.
