a. and sb. [a. F. concordant:—L. concordānt-em, pr. pple. of concordāre: see CONCORD v. and -ANT.]
A. adj.
1. Agreeing in sentiment or opinion; of one heart or mind; harmonious, unanimous.
1477. Earl Rivers (Caxton), Dictes, 11. Be concordaunt and loue togyders.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., XVI. xii. You be ever ryght concordant With perfyte reason, whiche is not variaunt.
1614. J. Cooke, Tu Quoque, in Hazl., Dodsley, XI. 197. Nay, sweet Mistress Tickleman, be concordant; reverence antiquity.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., p. xiii. By the concordant Voice of all the curious Judges.
1875. Stubbs, Const. Hist., II. xiv. 152. The common concordant and unanimous consent of all and singular.
2. Of things: Agreeing, consistent, correspondent.
Concordant verses: ‘such as have in them several words in common, but by the addition of other words have a quite different meaning’ (Bailey (folio), 1736).
1512. Act 4 Hen. VIII., c. 19 § 10. The hole some … evenly agreable and concordaunte with the hoole some comprised in the seid endenture.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 239. Adam assigned unto every one a name concordant unto its nature.
1791. E. Darwin, Bot. Gard., II. 60. On four concordant lines.
1805. Foster, Ess., IV. vii. 221. If not concordant with the dictates of the New Testament.
1863. Tyndall, Heat, v. 142. These different methods have given concordant results.
3. In musical concord, harmonious; consisting, or having the effect, of a concord.
1551. Robinson, trans. More’s Utop., II. (Arb.), 116. The concordaunte and discordant distaunces of soundes, and tunes.
1596. Edw. III., II. i. 14. The touch of sweet concordant strings.
1788. Reid, Act. Powers, III. iii. vi. Two or more synchronous sounds I perceive to be concordant.
B. † sb. = CONCORDANCE.
1625. Bp. Mountagu, App. Cæsar, ix. 84. I gave my reasons by speciall reciting many Concordants inter partes.
