accorded

Verb

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.
   • [H]er hands accorded the Lutes muſicke to the voice; […]a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The Second Booke] Chapter 11”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia]...
2. (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
   • But Satyrane forth ſtepping, did them ſtay / And with faire treaty pacifide their yre; / Then when they were accorded from the fray, […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 532
3. (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
   • For things are often ſpoke, and ſeldome meant, / But that my heart accordeth with my tongue, […]1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

   Synonyms:

   sit, agree

4. (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
5. (transitive) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
   • The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations will be the acid test of their good will.

   Synonyms:

   render

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.

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