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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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ACCORD n. 10 definitions

Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent. A mediator of an accord and peace between them. Bacon. These all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts i. 14.

ACCORDABLE a. 2 definitions

Reconcilable; in accordance.

Agreement; harmony; conformity. "In strict accordance with the law." Macaulay.

Accordance. [R.] Paley.

Agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to. Strictly accordant with true morality. Darwin. And now his voice accordant to the string. Coldsmith.

ACCORDANTLY adv.

In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.

One who accords, assents, or concedes. [R.]

ACCORDING p. 2 definitions

Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.

ACCORDINGLY adv. 2 definitions

Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak.

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

ACCORDIONIST n.

A player on the accordion.

Agreement; reconcilement. [Obs.] Gower.

To unite; to attach; to incorporate. [Obs.] Milton.

ACCUMULATOR n. 3 definitions

One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses.

ACCUSATORIAL a.

ACCUSATORIALLY adv.

By way accusation.

Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. Grote.

ACETABULIFORM a.

Shaped like a shallow; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. Gray.

Needle-shaped; acicular.

Shaped like a needle.