In 3–6 concorde. [a. F. concorde:—L. concordia, n. of quality f. concors, concord- adj. ‘of one mind,’ f. con- together + cor, cord- heart. (The L. suffix -ia, passing through OF. -e, is mute or lost in Eng.; cf. beast.)]
1. Agreement between persons; concurrence in feeling and opinion; harmony, accord.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 23519 (Cott.). Mikel it es þar þair concord, For all ar euer at an acord.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Clerk’s T., 1073. Ful many a yer … Lyven these tuo in concord and in rest.
a. 1400. Cov. Myst., 84. Brothyrly concorde … That norchyth love of creatures echon.
1549. (Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer, 4 b. O God, which art author of peace, and louer of concorde.
1605. Shaks., Macb., IV. iii. 98. The sweet Milke of Concord.
1667. Milton, P. L., II. 497. Devil with Devil damn’d Firm concord holds, men onely disagree.
1769. Burke, Pres. St. Nat., Wks. 1842, I. 117. No project of theirs could endanger the concord of the empire.
1865. Reader, 4 Feb., 129/1. There is no … concord in a community not justly governed with a view to the happiness and prosperity of all its members.
2. A state of peace and amity between contending parties or nations; concr. a treaty establishing such relations.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VII. vi. 259. Scho be hyr trette mad concord Betwene hyr eme Dawy and hyr Lord.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, xl. 132. Turnus wolde neuer haue concorde nor peas wyth this kyng euander.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XII. v. 168. The King … Left the concord ondone, nocht brocht till end.
1568. Grafton, Chron., II. 431. They sent Ambassadors … requyring him of peece and finall concord. Ibid., II. 647. For infringing any point of this concorde.
1721. Strype, Eccl. Mem., I. v. 61. A treaty … commonly called the Concord of Madril.
1846. Prescott, Ferd. & Is., III. xvii. 212. Abiding by the concord of Salamanca.
b. Hence concord-coin, a coin struck by Greek towns of Asia Minor, under the Roman Empire, to commemorate a treaty conferring privileges on each other’s citizens; usually called alliance-coin.
1850. Leitch, trans. Müller’s Anc. Art, 441. On a concord-coin of Cyzicus with Smyrna … Cora, crowned with ivy, holding a torch.
3. Law. An agreement made in court respecting the conveyance of a fine of lands; also, an agreement made between two or more upon a trespass committed.
1531. Dial. on Laws Eng., II. xxiv. (1638), 102. A concord is properly upon an agreement between the parties.
1594. West, Symbol., II. § 58. Instructions how to draw the Concords of fines.
1767. Blackstone, Comm., II. 351.
1818. Cruise, Digest (ed. 2), V. 83. The third part of a fine is the concord or agreement entered into openly in the Court of Common Pleas, or before the Chief Justice of that Court, or commissioners duly authorized for that purpose.
1848. Wharton, s.v., Concord … upon a trespass committed … is divided into concord executory, and concord executed.
4. Agreement or harmony between things; esp. said in reference to sounds and rhythmical movements, and in uses thence derived.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter, cl. 4 In pesful felagheship & concord of voicys.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., XVI. xiv. The vii. scyences in one monacorde, Eche upon other do full well depende, Musyke hath them so set in concorde.
1579. Gosson, Sch. Abuse (Arb.), 26. The concorde of the Elementes and their qualyties.
1596. Shaks., Merch. V., V. i. 84. The man that hath no musicke in himselfe, Nor is not moued with concord of sweet sounds.
1667. Milton, P. L., VI. 311. If Natures concord broke, Among the Constellations warr were sprung.
1744. J. Paterson, Comm. Milton’s P. L., 271. If two stringed instruments be exactly tuned alike, the one that is not play’d on, will answer to that which is playd on, in perfect concord.
1849. Mrs. Somerville, Connex. Phys. Sc., xvii. 158. When their vibrations are so related as to have a common period, after a few oscillations they produce concord.
† b. = RIME. Obs.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, II. v. (Arb.), 91. We … do giue the name of ryme onely to our concordes, or tunable consentes in the latter end of our verses. Ibid., II. vii. 93. This cadence is the fal of a verse in euery last word with a certaine tunable sound which being matched with another of like sound, do make a [concord].
5. Mus. A combination of notes that is in itself satisfactory to the ear, requiring no ‘resolution’ or following chord: opposed to discord.
1589. R. Harvey, Pl. Perc., 21. All diuisions framde with such long discords, and not so much as a concord to end withall.
1597. Morley, Introd. Mus., 70. Phi. What is a Concord? Ma. It is a mixt sound compact of diuers voyces, entring with delight in the eare.
1674. Playford, Skill Mus., III. 1. There are Nine Concords of Musick, as followeth; a Unison, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Tenth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fifteenth, whereof five are called perfect, and four imperfect.
1788. Cavallo, Mus. Instr., in Phil. Trans., LXXVIII. 244. When the combinations of the two sounds are agreeable, they are called concords.
1881. Macfarren, Counterp., i. 2. A concord is a chord that is satisfactory in itself and has no need to be followed by any others.
6. Gram. Formal agreement between words as parts of speech, expressing the relation of fact between things and their attributes or predicates.
This formal agreement consists in the words concerned being put in the same case, number, gender, and person, as far as the inflexional structure of the language provides for this, or as other considerations (in respect to gender and number) do not forbid it.
1530. Palsgr., Introd., 33. The latines have the concordes of grammar.
1612. Brinsley, Pos. Parts (1669), 52. What mean you by Concords? The agreement of words together, in some special Accidents or qualities; as in one Number, Person, Case, or Gender.
1750. Harris, Hermes (1841), 193. From this natural concord of subject and accident, arises the grammatical concord of substantive and adjective.
7. Form or Formula of Concord [Ger. Koncordienformel, Eintrachtsformel, L. Formula Concordiæ]: a symbolical document drawn up in 1576–7, and containing an exposition and determination of points of Lutheran doctrine concerning which differences had arisen among Lutheran divines. (This and eight other formularies, œcumenical and Lutheran, were published in 1580, in Latin and German, under the collective title of Liber Concordiæ, Koncordienbuch ‘Book of concord.’)
1764. trans. Mosheim’s Eccl. Hist., Cent. 16. II. i. § 39. The result of all was the famous Form of Concord, which has made so much noise in the world. Ibid., § 41. Nor were the followers of Zwingle and Calvin the only opposers of the Form of Concord.
1887. Fisher, Hist. Chr. Ch., 424. Melancthon’s departure from Luther on the question of the Lord’s Supper, and on the part taken by the human will in conversion, awakened intense hostility on the side of the strict Lutherans. These … embodied their dissent from the peculiarities of Melancthon in the creed called the ‘Form of Concord.’
