1. accord - Noun
2. accord - Verb
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAll of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility. John Cassian
Where the husband, and the wife, and the children are in accord and united by the bonds of virtue, there is Christ among them. John Chrysostom
When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God. Basil of Caesarea
There is no good accord where every man would be a lord. English Proverb
Where there is a friend, one does not have to call, he will come of his own accord. Lamba Proverb
Where there is a friend, one does not have to call, he will come of his own accord. Bantu Proverb