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▪ I. concord, n.1|ˈkɒnkɔːd, ˈkɒŋkɔːd|
In 3– 6 concorde.
[a. F. concorde:—L. concordia, n. of quality f. concors, concord- adj. ‘of one mind’, f. con- together + cor, cord- heart. (The L. suffix -ia, passing through OF. -e, is mute or lost in Eng.; cf. beast.)]
1. Agreement between persons; concurrence in feeling and opinion; harmony, accord.
a1300Cursor M. 23519 (Cott.) Mikel it es þar þair concord, For all ar euer at an acord. c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 1073 Ful many a yer..Lyven these tuo in concord and in rest. a1400Cov. Myst. 84 Brothyrly concorde..That norchyth love of creatures echon. 1549(Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer 4 b, O God, which art author of peace, and louer of concorde. 1605Shakes. Macb. iv. iii. 98 The sweet Milke of Concord. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 497 Devil with Devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men onely disagree. 1769Burke Pres. St. Nat. Wks. 1842 I. 117 No project of theirs could endanger the concord of the empire. 1865Reader 4 Feb. 129/1 There is no..concord in a community not justly governed with a view to the happiness and prosperity of all its members.
2. A state of peace and amity between contending parties or nations; concr. a treaty establishing such relations.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. vii. vi. 259 Scho be hyr trette mad concord Betwene hyr eme Dawy and hyr Lord. 1490Caxton Eneydos xl. 132 Turnus wolde neuer haue concorde nor peas wyth this kyng euander. 1513Douglas æneis xii. v. 168 The King..Left the concord ondone, nocht brocht till end. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 431 They sent Ambassadors..requyring him of peece and finall concord. Ibid. II. 647 For infringing any point of this concorde. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. I. v. 61 A treaty..commonly called the Concord of Madril. 1846Prescott Ferd. & Is. III. xvii. 212 Abiding by the concord of Salamanca.
b. Hence concord-coin, a coin struck by Greek towns of Asia Minor, under the Roman Empire, to commemorate a treaty conferring privileges on each other's citizens; usually called alliance-coin.
1850J. Leitch tr. Müller's Anc. Art 441 On a concord-coin of Cyzicus with Smyrna..Cora, crowned with ivy, holding a torch.
3. Law. An agreement made in court respecting the conveyance of a fine of lands; also, an agreement made between two or more upon a trespass committed.
1531Dial. on Laws Eng. ii. xxiv. (1638) 102 A concord is properly upon an agreement between the parties. 1594West Symbol. ii. §58 Instructions how to draw the Concords of fines. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 351. 1818 Cruise Digest (ed. 2) V. 83 The third part of a fine is the concord or agreement entered into openly in the Court of Common Pleas, or before the Chief Justice of that Court, or commissioners duly authorized for that purpose. 1848Wharton s.v., Concord..upon a trespass committed..is divided into concord executory, and concord executed.
4. Agreement or harmony between things; esp. said in reference to sounds and rhythmical movements, and in uses thence derived.
a1340Hampole Psalter cl. 4 In pesful felagheship & concord of voicys. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xvi. xiv, The vii. scyences in one monacorde, Eche upon other do full well depende, Musyke hath them so set in concorde. 1579Gosson Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 26 The concord of the Elementes and their qualyties. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. v. i. 84 The man that hath no musicke in himselfe, Nor is not moued with concord of sweet sounds. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 311 If Natures concord broke, Among the Constellations warr were sprung. 1744J. Paterson Comm. Milton's P.L. 171 If two stringed instruments be exactly tuned alike, the one that is not play'd on, will answer to that which is playd on, in perfect concord. 1849M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sc. xvii. 158 When their vibrations are so related as to have a common period, after a few oscillations they produce concord.
†b. = rime. Obs.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. v. (Arb.) 91 We..do giue the name of ryme onely to our concordes, or tunable consentes in the latter end of our verses. Ibid. ii. vii. 93 The fal of a verse..with a certaine tunable sound which being matched with another of like sound, do make a (concord).
5. Mus. A combination of notes which is in itself satisfactory to the ear, requiring no ‘resolution’ or following chord: opposed to discord.
1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. 21 All diuisions framde with such long discords, and not so much as a concord to end withall. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. 70, Phi. What is a Concord? Ma. It is a mixt sound compact of diuers voyces, entring with delight in the eare. 1674Playford Skill Mus. iii. 1 There are Nine Concords of Musick, as followeth; a Unison, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Tenth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fifteenth, whereof five are called perfect, and four imperfect. 1788Cavallo Mus. Instr. in Phil. Trans. LXXVIII. 244 When the combinations of the two sounds are agreeable, they are called concords. 1881Macfarren Counterp. i. 2 A concord is a chord that is satisfactory in itself and has no need to be followed by any others.
6. Gram. Formal agreement between words as parts of speech, expressing the relation of fact between things and their attributes or predicates.
This formal agreement consists in the words concerned being put in the same case, number, gender, and person, as far as the inflexional structure of the language provides for this, or as other considerations (in respect to gender and number) do not forbid it.
1530Palsgr. Introd. 38 The latines have the concordes of grammar. 1612Brinsley Pos. Parts (1669) 52 What mean you by Concords? The agreement of words together, in some special Accidents or qualities; as in one Number, Person, Case, or Gender. 1750Harris Hermes (1841) 193 From this natural concord of subject and accident, arises the grammatical concord of substantive and adjective.
7. Form or Formula of Concord [Ger. Koncordienformel, Eintrachtsformel, L. Formula Concordiæ]: a symbolical document drawn up in 1576–1577, and containing an exposition and determination of points of Lutheran doctrine concerning which differences had arisen among Lutheran divines. (This and eight other formularies, œcumenical and Lutheran, were published in 1580, in Latin and German, under the collective title of Liber Concordiæ, Koncordienbuch ‘Book of concord’.)
1764tr. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. Cent. 16. ii. 1. §39 The result of all was the famous Form of Concord, which has made so much noise in the world. Ibid. §41 Nor were the followers of Zwingle and Calvin the only opposers of the Form of Concord. 1887Fisher Hist. Chr. Ch. 424 Melancthon's departure from Luther on the question of the Lord's Supper, and on the part taken by the human will in conversion, awakened intense hostility on the side of the strict Lutherans. These..embodied their dissent from the peculiarities of Melancthon in the creed called the ‘Form of Concord’.
▪ II. concord, v. Obsolescent exc. in sense 5.|kənˈkɔːd|
Also 5–6 -corde(n.
[ME., a. F. concorde-r:—L. concordā-re to be of one mind, f. concors, concord-: see prec.]
1. intr. To come into agreement, agree, concur.
1375Barbour Bruce i. 71 At the last thai all concordyt, That all thar spek suld be recordyt Till Schyr Eduuard. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) I. 112 Thus culd thai nocht concord into ane will. 1552Huloet, Concorden or agree. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 14, I do not concord with the Poet in that trivial verse. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iv. 10 This Hypothesis both Plato and Aristotle concord in.
†b. To agree (a thing) to be (something).
1606Bp. Barlow Serm. (1607) E 1 b, Who all concord the Succession and Superioritie of Bishops to bee Apostolicall.
2. Of things: To agree, be in harmony, harmonize.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 1703 The world..Dyuerseth so his stoundes concordynge. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 34 Wyt goth by ordre and may concord in one sentence. 1564Becon New Catech. (1844) 409 This doctrine..concordeth and agreeth therewith in all points. a1646J. Gregory Posthuma (1650) 9 Their writings all concorded. 1776Ld. Stirling in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) I. 173 The aid I called in..exactly concords with your sentiments. 1884tr. Turgenieff's Diary Superfl. Man (N. York ed.) 129 It concords with my character though.
†3. trans. To arrange by concord or agreement.
1548Hall Chron. (1809) 151 The finall Conclusion taken, concorded and agreed betweene..Kyng Henry the fifth & Kyng Charles the V. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. 212 (D.) To concord conditions for the royal marriage.
†4. To bring into concord; to harmonize. Obs.
1548W. Thomas in Strype Eccl. Mem. II. App. R. 60 Man cannot so directly concord them, as to make them always agree. 1597J. Payne Royal Exch. 4 Be taught to add St. Iames worcks wth St. Pauls faythe, concording theme to gethers..as vnseperable companions. 1621W. Sclater Tythes (1623) 162 [To] concord Canons. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. 102 (D.) He lived and died..with windmills of union to concord Rome and England, England and Rome.
5. [Back-formation from concordance 6 b.] To rearrange the words of a text in the form of a concordance.
1969Computers & Humanities III. 251 By concording every word in Dobbie's 3,182 line text..Bessinger arrived at a word total of 38,128. 1971Times Lit. Suppl. 18 June 716/2 Dr. Howard-Hill concords sheet C of Quarto O of 1 Henry IV. |