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accord

English

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WOTD – 2 August 2008

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English accord, from Old French acort, from acorder (see verb below).[1][2]

Noun

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accord (countable and uncountable, plural accords)

  1. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
  2. A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
    • 17th century, Sir John Davies, The Self-Subsistence of the Soul:
      Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
  3. Agreement or harmony of things in general.
    the accord of light and shade in painting
  4. (countable, perfumery) A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.
    • 2010 November 18, Daphna Havkin-Frenkel, Faith C. Belanger, Handbook of Vanilla Science and Technology, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
      Oriental fragrances often incorporate an accord referred to as amber. It is a perfumery accord using vanilla, olibanum, balsamic resins, and citrus to varying degrees.
    • 2016 October 15, Valerie Ann Worwood, The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy, Revised and Expanded: Over 800 Natural, Nontoxic, and Fragrant Recipes to Create Health, Beauty, and Safe Home and Work Environments, New World Library, →ISBN, page 450:
      Accord is the perfumer's word for a perfume formulation that can be incorporated into any perfume calling for a particular note.
  5. (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
  6. (international law) An international agreement.
    The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
  7. Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
    Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English accorden, acorden, borrowed from Old French acorder (compare modern French accord and accorder), from Vulgar Latin *accordāre, from Latin concordāre via suffix substitution (with Latin ad-), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr ~ *ḱr̥d-, and thus distantly related to English heart (via Proto-Germanic *hertô).

Verb

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accord (third-person singular simple present accords, present participle according, simple past and past participle accorded)

  1. (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
  2. (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 532:
      But Satyrane forth ſtepping, did them ſtay / And with faire treaty pacifide their yre; / Then when they were accorded from the fray, […]
    • 1660 August 8 (Gregorian calendar); first published 1715, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at St. Mary’s Church in Oxon, before the University, […]”, in Twelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, and upon Several Occasions, volume IV, London: […] G. James, for Jonah Bowyer […], →OCLC, pages 17–18:
      All which Particulars (with many more of the like Nature) being confeſſedly knotty and difficult, can never be accorded, but by a competent Stock of critical Learning; […]
  3. (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
  4. (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
  5. (transitive, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
    • 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 217:
      And, when the blinding tears had fallen, I saw
      That column, and those corpses, and the moon,
      And felt the poisonous tooth of hunger gnaw
      My vitals, I rejoiced, as if the boon
      Of senseless death would be accorded soon;— […]
    • 1951, United Nations, Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, article 14:
      In respect of the protection of industrial property, […] a refugee shall be accorded in the country in which he has his habitual residence the same protection as is accorded to nationals of that country.
    • 1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:
      Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.
    • 2010 December 16, European Court of Human Rights, A, B and C v. Ireland‎[1], number 25579/05, marginal 235:
      In the present case, and contrary to the Government’s submission, the Court considers that there is indeed a consensus amongst a substantial majority of the Contracting States of the Council of Europe towards allowing abortion on broader grounds than accorded under Irish law.
  6. (intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.
  7. (intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement.
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  1. ^ “accō̆rd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ “accord, n.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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Etymology

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Deverbal from accorder. Compare with Catalan acord.

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Noun

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accord m (plural accords)

  1. chord
  2. agreement
  3. permission, consent

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Descendants

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  • → Danish: akkord
  • → German: Akkord
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: akkord
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: akkord
  • → Ottoman Turkish: اقورد (akord)
  • → Persian: آکورد (âkord)
  • → Swedish: ackord

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Noun

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accord m (plural accords)

  1. (Jersey) agreement
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