Obsolescent. Also 5–6 -corde(n. [ME., a. F. concorde-r:—L. concordā-re to be of one mind, f. concors, concord-: see prec.]
1. intr. To come into agreement, agree, concur.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, I. 71. At the last thai all concordyt, That all thar spek suld be recordyt Till Schyr Eduuard.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (1858), I. 112. Thus culd thai nocht concord into ane will.
1552. Huloet, Concorden or agree.
1607. Walkington, Opt. Glass, 14. I do not concord with the Poet in that trivial verse.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. IV. 10. This Hypothesis both Plato and Aristotle concord in.
† b. To agree (a thing) to be (something).
1606. Bp. Barlow, Serm. (1607), E 1 b. Who all concord the Succession and Superioritie of Bishops to bee Apostolicall.
2. Of things: To agree, be in harmony, harmonize.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, III. 1703. The world … Dyuerseth so his stoundes concordynge.
1477. Earl Rivers (Caxton), Dictes, 34. Wyt goth by ordre and may concord in one sentence.
1564. Becon, New Catech. (1844), 409. This doctrine … concordeth and agreeth therewith in all points.
a. 1646. J. Gregory, Posthuma (1650), 9. Their writings all concorded.
1776. Ld. Stirling, in Sparks, Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853), I. 173. The aid I called in … exactly concords with your sentiments.
1884. trans. Turgenieff’s Diary Superfl. Man (N. York ed.), 129. It concords with my character though.
† 3. trans. To arrange by concord or agreement.
1548. Hall, Chron. (1809), 151. The finall Conclusion taken, concorded and agreed betweene … Kyng Henry the fifth & Kyng Charles the V.
a. 1670. Hacket, Abp. Williams, I. 212 (D.). To concord conditions for the royal marriage.
† 4. To bring into concord; to harmonize. Obs.
1548. W. Thomas, in Strype, Eccl. Mem., II. App. R. 60. Man cannot so directly concord them, as to make them always agree.
1597. J. Payne, Royal Exch., 4. Be taught to add St. Iames worcks wth St. Pauls faythe, concording theme to gethers … as vnseperable companions.
1621. W. Sclater, Tythes (1623), 162. [To] concord Canons.
a. 1670. Hacket, Abp. Williams, I. 102 (D.). He lived and died … with windmills of union to concord Rome and England, England and Rome.
