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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Accord \Ac*cord"\, verb (used with an object) [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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