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agree; to adjufl one thing to another; with the particle 
to. To bring to agreement; to compofe; to accommo¬ 
date. 
To Accord, v. n. To agree, to fait one with another; 
with the particle with. —Several of the main parts of Mo- 
fes’s hiftory, as concerning the flood, and the firft fathers 
of the feveral nations of the world, do very well accord 
with the moftancient accounts of profane hiftory. Tillotfon. 
Accord , f. [ accord , Fr.] A compact; an agreement; 
adjuftment of a difference. Concurrence, union of mind. 
Harmony, fymmetry, juft correfpondence of one thing 
with another.—Beauty is nothing elfe but a juft accord and 
mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful 
conftitution. Drydcn. —Own accord; voluntary motion: 
ufed both of perfons and things. Aftion in fpeaking, 
correfpondent to the words. 
Accord, in law, is an agreement between the party 
injuring and the party injured, where one is injured by a 
trefpafs or offence done, or on a contract, to fatisfy him 
with fome recompence; which, if executed and perform¬ 
ed, ftiall be a good bar in law, if the other party after the 
accord performed bring any afition for the fame. As if a 
man contrail to build a houfe, or to deliver a horfe, and 
fail in it; this is an injury, for which the fuft'erer may 
have his remedy by action: but, if the party injured ac¬ 
cepts a fum of money or other thing as a fatisfaftion, this 
is a redrefs of that injury, and entirely takes away the ac¬ 
tion. 3 Blackjl 15. 
The accord mull be executed before the aition be com¬ 
menced ; and therefore an accord to do a thing at a day to 
come is not good. But, if it be executed before the ac¬ 
tion commenced, it is good, although it was executory only 
at the time of the accord. 1 Rolfs Rep. 129. 
If a man plead an accord, the fafeft way is to plead it as 
a fatisfaftion, and not by way of accord ; and therefore he 
need fay no more than that the defendant gave fo much to 
the plaintiff' in fatisfaftion, which the plaintiff' received. 
9 Co. 80. 
The defendant muft plead that the plaintiff accepted the 
thing agreed upon in full fatisfaftion; and, if it be on a 
bond, it muft be in fatisfaftion of the money mentioned 
in the condition, and not of the bond itfelf, for that can¬ 
not be difeharged but by writing under hand and feal. 
Cro. Ja. 254. 
Accord, in painting, is the harmony that reigns among 
the lights and fliades of a picture. 
ACCORDANCE, f. Agreement with a perfon; with 
the particle with. Conformity to fomething.—The only 
way of defining of fin, is, by the contrariety to the will of 
God; as of good, by the accordance with that will. Ham¬ 
mond. 
ACCORDANT, adj. [accordant, Fr.] Willing; in a 
good humour. Not in life. 
ACCORDING, prep, [from accord, of which it is pro¬ 
perly a participle, and is therefore never ufed but with to. ] 
In a manner fuitably to, agreeably to, in proportion.—Our 
zeal, then, fhould be according to the whole gofpel: not 
only according to its truths, but precepts: not only accord¬ 
ing to its free grace, but neceffary duties: not only accord- 
ing to its myfteries, but alfo its commandments. Sprat .—■ 
With regard to. In proportion. The following phrafe 
is, 1 thi k, vicious :•—A man may, with prudence and a 
good confidence, approve of the profeffed principles of 
one party more than the other, according as he thinks they 
belt promife the good of church and ftate. Swift. 
ACCORDINGLY, adv. Agreeably, fuitably, conform¬ 
ably.—Mealy fubftances, fermented, turn four. Accord¬ 
ingly, given to a weak child, they ftill retain their nature; 
for bread will give them the cholic. Arbuthnot. 
ACCORDS (Stephen Tabourot, Seigneur des), advo¬ 
cate in the parliament of Dijon in France, and king’s ad¬ 
vocate in the baiiiwic and chancery of that city, born in 
the year 1549. He was a man of genius and leading. 
His work, 'intitied “ Les Touches,” was publifthedat Pa¬ 
ris in 1585; which is indeed a collection of witty poems, 
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but worked up rather in too loofe a manner, according to 
the licentious tafte of that age. His Bigarrures are writ¬ 
ten in the fame ftrain. He was cenfured for this way of 
writing, which obliged him to publilh an apology. The 
lordlhip of Accords is an imaginary fief or title from the 
device of his anceftors, which was a drum, with the mot¬ 
to, a tons accords, “ chiming with all.” He had fent a 
fonnet to a daughter of M. Begat, the great and learned 
prelident of Burgundy, “ who (fays he) did me the ho¬ 
nour to love me :—And, inafmuch (continues he), as I had 
fubferibed my fonnet with only my device, a tous accords, 
this lady firft nicknamed me, in her anfwer, Seigneur des 
Accords-, by which title her father alfo called me feveral 
times. For this reafon I chofe this furname, not only in 
all my writings compofed at that time, but even in thefe 
books.” tie died July 24th, 1561, in the 46th year of 
his age. 
To ACCOST, v. a. [accojler, Fr.] To fpeak to firft; to 
toaddrefs; to falute.—You miftake, knight: accojl her, 
front her, board her, woo her, affail her. Shakcfpcare. 
ACCOSTABLE, adj. Eafy of accefs; familiar. Not 
in life.—They were both indubitable, ftrong, and high- 
minded, men, yet of fweet and accojlabie nature, almoft 
equally delighting in the prefs and affluence of dependents 
and fuitors. H'otton. 
ACCOUNT, J' [from the old French 'accompt, from com¬ 
putus, Lat. It was originally written accompt-, but, by 
gradually foftening the pronunciation, in time the ortho¬ 
graphy changed to account. ] A computation of debts or 
expences; a regifter of facts relating to money. The 
ftate or refult of a computation ; as, the account (lands thus 
between us. Such a ftate of perfons or things, as may 
make them more or lefts worthy of being confidered in the 
reckoning. Value, or eftimation.—I fhould make more 
account of their judgment, who are men of fenfe, and yet 
have never touched a pencil, than of the opinion given by 
the greateft part of painters. Dryden .—Profit; advantage: 
to turn to account, is to produce advantage.—We would 
eftablilli our fouls in fuch a folid and fubftantial virtue, as 
will turn to account in that great day, when it muft (land 
the teft of infinite wifdom and juftice. Addifon .—Diftinc- 
tion, dignity, rank.—There is fuch a peculiarity in Ho¬ 
mer’s manner of apoftrophizing Eumaeus: it is generally 
applied, by that poet, only to men of account and diftinc- 
tion. Pope .—A reckoning verified by finding the value of 
a thing equal to what it was accounted.—Confidering the 
ufual motives of human actions, which are pleafure, pro¬ 
fit, and ambition, I cannot yet comprehend how thofe per¬ 
fons find their account in any of the three. Swift. —A reck¬ 
oning referred to, or fum charged upon, any particular 
perfon; and thence, figuratively, regard; confideration; 
fake.—This muft be always remembered, that nothing can 
come into the account of recreation, that is not done with 
delight. Locke .—Nothing can recommend itfelf to our 
love, on any other account, but either as it promotes our 
prefent, or is a means to affure to us a future, happinefs. 
Rogers. —A narrative, relation; in this ufe it may feem to' 
derived from conte, Fr. a tale, a narration. The review or 
examination of an affair taken by authority; as, the magis¬ 
trate took an account of the tumult. The relation and 
reafons of a tranfaftion given to a perfon in authority.— 
The true ground of morality can only be the will and law 
of a God who fees men in the dark, has in his hands re¬ 
wards and punifhments, and power enough to call to ac- 
count the proudeft offender. Locke .—Explanation; align¬ 
ment of caufes.—It is eafy to give account, how it came to 
pafs, that, though all men defire happinefs, yet their wills- 
carry them contrarily. L.ocke. —An opinion previoufly 
eftabiilhed.—A prodigal young fellow, that had fold his 
clothes, upon the fight of a fwallow, made account that 
fummer was at hand, and away v/ent his fhirt too. L’E- 
f range. —The reafons of any thing collected.—Being con¬ 
vinced, upon all accounts , that they had the fame reafon to 
believe the hiftory of our Saviour, as that of any other 
perfon to which they themfelves were not actually eye- 
witneiles. 
