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Accorded

Accord \Ac*cord"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accorded; p. pr. & vb. n. According.] [OE. acorden, accorden, OF. acorder, F. accorder, fr. LL. accordare; L. ad + cor, cordis, heart. Cf. Concord, Discord, and see Heart.]

  1. To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to. [R.]

    Her hands accorded the lute's music to the voice.
    --Sidney.

  2. To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.

    When they were accorded from the fray.
    --Spenser.

    All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning.
    --South.

  3. To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise. ``According his desire.''
    --Spenser.

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vb. (en-past of: accord)

Usage examples of "accorded".

Court took cognizance of the full hearing accorded the appellant, and of his failure to choose another route, although he was at liberty to do so.

Jeanneney and Herriot respectively, refused to attend the social functions accorded the Nazi visitor.

The Czech President was accorded all the formal honors due to a head of state.

There can be no doubt that he had in mind inflicting on him the treatment he had accorded the Austrian Chancellor and the Czechoslovak President under what he thought were similar circumstances.

There was to be an exchange of populations and full rights accorded to nationals of one country in the other.

We also know-now-that Elser lived on at Sachsenhausen and then Dachau concentration camps, being accorded, apparently on the express orders of Hitler, who had personally gained so much from the bombing, quite humane treatment under the circumstances.

What it had refused the Allies the year before it accorded to Nazi Germany.

West Virginia statute whereby that State sought to require that a preference be accorded local consumers of gas produced within the State.

As against an enemy in the field the President possesses all the powers which are accorded by International Law to any supreme commander.

State court as constitutionally entitled to be accorded in the courts of sister States not simply the faith and credit of conclusive evidence, but the validity of a final judgment.

The question presented was whether a judgment rendered by a New York court under a statute which provided that, when joint debtors were sued and one of them was brought into court on a process, a judgment in favor of the plaintiff would entitle him to execute against all, and so must be accorded full faith and credit in Louisiana when offered as the basis of an action in debt against a resident of that State who had not been served by process in the New York action.

We would then be faced with the problem of the respect to be accorded the legislative judgment on an issue as to which, in default of that judgment, we have been forced to depend upon our own.

The difference between judicial enforcement and nonenforcement of the restrictive covenants is the difference to petitioners between being denied rights of property available to other members of the community and being accorded full enjoyment of those rights on an equal footing.

Ames fair value formula, two of the components thereof were accorded special emphasis, with the second quickly surpassing the first in terms of the measure of importance attributed to it.

Justices Black, Douglas, and Murphy, Justice Rutledge, who also is of the opinion that the absolute right to counsel granted by the Sixth Amendment should be enjoyed in State criminal trials, insisted that even under the fair trial doctrine, the accused had not been accorded due process.