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Definition of Accord

Accord Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent. Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones. Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting. Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord. An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit. To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to. To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies. To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise. To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks. To agree in pitch and tone. Related Definitions: Accord, Act, Action, Adjust, Agree, Agreement, Also, An, And, Another, As, Assent, Award, Be, Between, Bring, By, Compose, Concede, Concord, Concurrence, Consent, Controversies, Controversy, Correspond, Correspondence, Disposition, Due, Executed, Followed, For, Formerly, Grant, Harmonize, Harmony, His, Impulse, In, Injury, Is, Just, Light, Make, Mind, Motion, Of, One, Opinion, Or, Own, Painting, Parties, Pitch, Praise, Preceded, Proper, Reconcile, Satisfaction, Settle, Shade, Spontaneous, Stipulated, Suit, Suitable, The, Thing, To, Tone, Voluntary, When, Which, Will, With

Accord Quotations A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. Sigmund Freud The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. John Cage The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. Alexander Pope The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged. Ovid There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. Thomas Paine

Accord Translations accord in Danish is akkord accord in Dutch is accoord, overeenstemming accord in Italian is accordo, accordare, unisono, concordanza accord in Latin is placitum accord in Norwegian is forsone, enighet, innvilge, samsvar accord in Portuguese is acordo accord in Spanish is concordar, asonancia, concordar, otorgar accord in Swedish is medge, bevilja

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