The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accord \Ac*cord"\, n. [OE. acord, accord, OF. acort, acorde, F. accord, fr. OF. acorder, F. accorder. See Accord, v. t.]
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Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
A mediator of an accord and peace between them.
--Bacon.These all continued with one accord in prayer.
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Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.
Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
--Sir J. Davies. Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
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Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.
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Of his own accord he went unto you.
--2 Cor. vii. 17.5. (Law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.
--Blackstone.With one accord, with unanimity.
They rushed with one accord into the theater.
--Acts xix. 29.
Usage examples of "with one accord".
We turned then with one accord and gazed through the dark arches of the forest.
When he had ended, all the barons, and knights, and others who were there, replied with one accord that they would not desert him as long as they had life in their bodies, and that they would aid him against all men whatever, and especially against Argon, adding that they feared not but they should take him and deliver him into his hands.
Which jocund question being heard by well-nigh all the folk of Prato, who had flocked thither all agog to see a dame so fair and of such quality on her trial for such an offence, they laughed loud and long, and then all with one accord, and as with one voice, exclaimed that the lady was in the right and said well.
No sooner did the Taoists hear these words than they rushed out, seized pitchforks, brooms, tiles, stones, and whatever else they could lay hands on, and with one accord rushed at the impostors.
Iroquois warriors would have raised the hatchet again with one accord.
The two old men exchanged looks as their all-too-empty bellies rumbled, then with one accord stared the stranger up and down.
But then, with one accord, they recalled that burnt offerings and pagan sacrifice of pig, bird and cattle could never be condoned.