Definition of Accord

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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.

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Accord Quotations

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates

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

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

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
Earl Nightingale

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

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
Robert Green Ingersoll

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.
Johannes Sebastian Bach

That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.
Hassan Nasrallah

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
Nikolai Gogol

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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