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ac·cord·ing

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–adjective

agreeing: according voices raised in censure.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME; see accord, -ing²

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ac·cord Audio Help   (ə-kôrd') Pronunciation Key
v.   ac·cord·ed, ac·cord·ing, ac·cords

v.   tr.

To cause to conform or agree; bring into harmony.
To grant, especially as being due or appropriate: accorded the President the proper deference.
To bestow upon: I accord you my blessing.

v. intr.
To be in agreement, unity, or harmony. See Synonyms at agree.

n.

Agreement; harmony: act in accord with university policies.
A settlement or compromise of conflicting opinions.
A settlement of points at issue between nations.
Spontaneous or voluntary desire to take a certain action: The children returned on their own accord. He confessed of his own accord.

[Middle English accorden, from Old French acorder, from Medieval Latin accordāre, to bring into agreement : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin cor, cord-, heart; see kerd- in Indo-European roots.]

ac·cord'er n.

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according
adjective
1.	(followed by 'to') in agreement with or accordant with; "according to instructions"
2.	(followed by 'to') as reported or stated by; "according to historians"

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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. "According his desire." --Spenser.

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Ac*cord"ing\, p. a. 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.

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.

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