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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Accord \Ac*cord"\, v. t. [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. [bd]According his desire.[b8] --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
According \Ac*cord"ing\, p. a. Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. [bd]This according voice of national wisdom.[b8] --Burke. [bd]Mind and soul according well.[b8] --Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. --Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. --Sprat. Note: According to has been called a prepositional phrase, but strictly speaking, according is a participle in the sense of agreeing, acceding, and to alone is the preposition. {According as}, precisely as; the same as; corresponding to the way in which. According as is an adverbial phrase, of which the propriety has been doubted; but good usage sanctions it. See {According}, adv. Is all things well, According as I gave directions? --Shak. The land which the Lord will give you according as he hath promised. --Ex. xii. 25. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
According \Ac*cord"ing\, adv. Accordingly; correspondingly. [Obs.] --Shak. |