| 释义 |
accordant, a.|əˈkɔːdənt|
Also acordant.
[a. OFr. acordant, pr. pple. of acorder: see accord v. and -ant.]
1. Agreeing, consonant, conformable. Const. to, with; the latter is now the more common; perhaps a distinction should be observed between accordant to a rigid standard, accordant with a parallel circumstance.
c1315Shoreham 89 Acordaunt to thy trauayl, Lord, graunte me thy coroune. c1374Chaucer Parl. Foules 203 Therwith a wynd..Made in the leuys grene a noyse softe Acordaunt to the bryddis song a lofte. 1393Gower Conf. III. 163 So thy prince for to queme Is nought to reson accordaunt. 1494Fabyan cxlvii. 133 (1811) An excedynge nombre, to be accordaunt with reason. 1579News from North in Thynne Animadv. (1865) Pref. 135 As neer accordant to the truth as I could. 1776Boswell Johnson (1816) II. 486, I went to the Cathedral, where I was very much delighted with the music, finding it to be peculiarly solemn, and accordant with the words of the service. 1822Barry Cornwall Miscell. Poems, Autumn, Man's bounding spirit ebbs and swells more high Accordant to the billow's loftier roll. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos II. xxxi. 327 (1877) The motto must have been more accordant with the pride of London than with Henry's good sense.
2. absol.
†a. Agreeing or concurring in mind, agreeable. Obs.
b. Agreeing in external action or motion; esp. of sounds: harmonious.
1599Shakes. Much Ado i. i. 14 Hee loued my niece your daughter, and meant to acknowledge it this night in a dance, and if hee found her accordant, hee meant to..instantly breake with you of it. a1764R. Lloyd Poet. Wks. 1774 I. 151 While eager genius plumes her infant wings, And with bold impulse strikes th' accordant strings. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) II. ii. xxxiii. 233 These data..are not as yet sufficiently extensive or accordant in different regions. 1850Blackie æschylus II. 100 Thy tale with mine accordant chimes. 1877Kinglake Crimea (ed. 6) III. iv. 357 That kind of understanding which leads to..accordant action.
†3. Agreeing with any one's character, or with circumstances; suitable, fitting, appropriate. Obs.
1413Lydgate Pylgr. Sowle ii. lviii. 56 (1859) Sothly, this lykenes is accordaunt. 1477Caxton Dictes 149 It is acordaunt that his [Socrates'] dyctes and sayengis shold be had as well as others. 1574tr. Littleton's Tenures 136 a, Yf tenaunt by the curteyse had aliened in fee with warrantie accordaunt. |