accord

Etymology

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).

noun

1. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
2. A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
   Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays. 17th century, Sir John Davies, The Self-Subsistence of the Soul
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.
   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. 2010-11-18, Daphna Havkin-Frenkel, Faith C. Belanger, Handbook of Vanilla Science and Technology, John Wiley & Sons
   Accord is the perfumer's word for a perfume formulation that can be incorporated into any perfume calling for a particular note. 2016-10-15, 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, page 450
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.

verb

1. (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
   [H]er hands accorded the Lutes musicke to the voice; 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, page 150
2. (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
   all which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult, can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning 1660, Robert South, The Scribe instructed, &c.
3. (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
   For things are often spoke and seldom meant; / But that my heart accordeth with my tongue, 1593, William Shakespeare, The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, III-i
4. (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
5. (transitive, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
   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. 1951, United Nations, Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, article 14
   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. 16-12-2010, European Court of Human Rights, A, B and C v. Ireland, number 25579/05, marginal 235
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.
7. (intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement.