From Middle Englishacorden, from Old Frenchacorder (compare modern French accord and accorder), from Vulgar LatinaccordÅ ("to be heart to heart with"), formed from Latinad + cor ("heart").
(transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
1590, Philip Sidney, Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, p. 150:Her hands accorded the Lutes musicke to the voice;
(transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III:But Satyrane forth stepping, did them stay And with faire treatie pacifide their ire, Then when they were accorded from the fray ...
Southall which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult, can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning
(intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony.
1593, William Shakespeare, , III-i:For things are often spoke and seldom meant; But that my heart accordeth with my tongue,—
1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained, :Thy actions to thy words accord;
(intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
(transitive, dated, legal) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
1951, United Nations' , 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.
(intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.
(intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement.