2 meanings, 47 uses
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1 —40 uses as in:
according to, or in accord with
Definition
in keeping with; or in agreement/harmony/unity with
This sense of accord is often seen in the form according to where it can take on more specific meanings. For example:
- "According to Kim, ..." — as stated by
- "To each according to her ability." — based upon
- "Points are scored according to how well they perform." — depending upon
- "The dose is calculated according to body weight." — in proportion to
- I readily pledged myself to accompany him in accordance with his wish.Chapters 49-51 (79% in)
accordance = keeping (or agreement)
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- He went to India with his capital, and there, according to a wild legend in our family, he was once seen riding on an elephant, in company with a Baboon; but I think it must have been a Baboo — or a Begum.Chapters 1-3 (5% in)
- All this I saw in the first glance after I crossed the threshold — child-like, according to my theory — and then Peggotty opened a little door and showed me my bedroom.Chapters 1-3 (70% in)
- Accordingly, when Mr. Peggotty came home about nine o'clock, this unfortunate Mrs. Gummidge was knitting in her corner, in a very wretched and miserable condition.Chapters 1-3 (89% in)
- 'Then come up,' said the carrier to the lazy horse; who came up accordingly.Chapters 4-6 (44% in)
- Accordingly we looked in at a baker's window, and after I had made a series of proposals to buy everything that was bilious in the shop, and he had rejected them one by one, we decided in favour of a nice little loaf of brown bread, which cost me threepence.Chapters 4-6 (68% in)
- Accordingly, it was locked up in his box, and drawn off by himself in a phial, and administered to me through a piece of quill in the cork, when I was supposed to be in want of a restorative.Chapters 7-9 (12% in)
- A few words were interchanged between him and Mr. Creakle, as, who the visitors were, and what room they were to be shown into; and then I, who had, according to custom, stood up on the announcement being made, and felt quite faint with astonishment, was told to go by the back stairs and get a clean frill on, before I repaired to the dining-room.Chapters 7-9 (30% in)
- When it was asleep again, I crept close to my mother's side according to my old custom, broken now a long time, and sat with my arms embracing her waist, and my little red cheek on her shoulder, and once more felt her beautiful hair drooping over me — like an angel's wing as I used to think, I recollect — and was very happy indeed.Chapters 7-9 (52% in)
- I never can quite understand whether my precocious self-dependence confused Mrs. Micawber in reference to my age, or whether she was so full of the subject that she would have talked about it to the very twins if there had been nobody else to communicate with, but this was the strain in which she began, and she went on accordingly all the time I knew her.Chapters 10-12 (54% in)
- I remember two pudding shops, between which I was divided, according to my finances.Chapters 10-12 (58% in)
- Accordingly, when the Saturday night came, and we were all waiting in the warehouse to be paid, and Tipp the carman, who always took precedence, went in first to draw his money, I shook Mick Walker by the hand; asked him, when it came to his turn to be paid, to say to Mr. Quinion that I had gone to move my box to Tipp's; and, bidding a last good night to Mealy Potatoes, ran away.Chapters 10-12 (96% in)
- Accordingly, I took the jacket off, that I might learn to do without it; and carrying it under my arm, began a tour of inspection of the various slop-shops.Chapters 13-15 (8% in)
- It's according to circumstances, and the wind, and so forth; but I take my chance of that.'Chapters 13-15 (52% in)
- MY aunt was so exasperated by the coolness with which Miss Murdstone looked about her, that I really believe she was motionless, and unable for the moment to dart out according to custom.Chapters 13-15 (61% in)
- We accordingly went up a wonderful old staircase; with a balustrade so broad that we might have gone up that, almost as easily; and into a shady old drawing-room, lighted by some three or four of the quaint windows I had looked up at from the street: which had old oak seats in them, that seemed to have come of the same trees as the shining oak floor, and the great beams in the ceiling.Chapters 13-15 (94% in)
- Accordingly, I went to work very hard, both in play and in earnest, and gained great commendation.Chapters 16-18 (24% in)
- I could do no less, under these circumstances, than make Mr. Micawber known to Uriah Heep and his mother; which I accordingly did.Chapters 16-18 (70% in)
- Accordingly I was called out of school next forenoon, and found Mr. Micawber in the parlour; who had called to say that the dinner would take place as proposed.Chapters 16-18 (79% in)
- So powerful were these visionary considerations in my boyish mind, that I seem, according to my present way of thinking, to have left school without natural regret.Chapters 19-21 (1% in)
- — but I informed myself of the hour at which she left of an evening, in order that our visit might be timed accordingly; and taking leave of Mr. Omer, and his pretty daughter, and her little children, went away to my dear old Peggotty's.Chapters 19-21 (75% in)
- This was an invocation to Steerforth to place himself under her hands; who, accordingly, sat himself down, with his back to the table, and his laughing face towards me, and submitted his head to her inspection, evidently for no other purpose than our entertainment.Chapters 22-24 (27% in)
- I then made her, according to certain established regulations from which no deviation, however slight, could ever be permitted, a glass of hot wine and water, and a slice of toast cut into long thin strips.Chapters 22-24 (60% in)
- Although I left the office at half past three, and was prowling about the place of appointment within a few minutes afterwards, the appointed time was exceeded by a full quarter of an hour, according to the clock of St. Andrew's, Holborn, before I could muster up sufficient desperation to pull the private bell-handle let into the left-hand door-post of Mr. Waterbrook's house.Chapters 25-27 (3% in)
- We had an adjourned cause in the Consistory that day — about excommunicating a baker who had been objecting in a vestry to a paving-rate — and as the evidence was just twice the length of Robinson Crusoe, according to a calculation I made, it was rather late in the day before we finished.Chapters 25-27 (50% in)
- Traddles accordingly did so, over the banister; and Mr. Micawber, not a bit changed — his tights, his stick, his shirt-collar, and his eye-glass, all the same as ever — came into the room with a genteel and youthful air.Chapters 25-27 (93% in)
- Mr. Omer, with a very complacent and amiable face, took several puffs in silence; and then said, resuming his first point: 'Accordingly we're obleeged, in ascertaining how Barkis goes on, to limit ourselves to Em'ly.Chapters 28-30 (81% in)
- The amount of the first obligation,' here Mr. Micawber carefully referred to papers, 'was, I believe, twenty-three, four, nine and a half, of the second, according to my entry of that transaction, eighteen, six, two.Chapters 34-36 (98% in)
- Accordingly, I told Agnes about my declaration of poverty, about the cookery-book, the housekeeping accounts, and all the rest of it.Chapters 37-39 (72% in)
- To this favour, Mr. Copperfield immediately replied, with his respectful compliments, that he would have the honour of waiting on the Misses Spenlow, at the time appointed; accompanied, in accordance with their kind permission, by his friend Mr. Thomas Traddles of the Inner Temple.Chapters 40-42 (20% in)
- Accordingly, when I mentioned it, with the greatest precaution, to Mrs. Crewler —'Chapters 40-42 (25% in)
- Accordingly, these little birds hopped out with great dignity; leaving me to receive the congratulations of Traddles, and to feel as if I were translated to regions of exquisite happiness.Chapters 40-42 (42% in)
- She had a written character, as large as a proclamation; and, according to this document, could do everything of a domestic nature that ever I heard of, and a great many things that I never did hear of.Chapters 43-45 (23% in)
- Accordingly, she polished the tablets, pointed the pencil, bought an immense account-book, carefully stitched up with a needle and thread all the leaves of the Cookery Book which Jip had torn, and made quite a desperate little attempt 'to be good', as she called it.Chapters 43-45 (49% in)
- 'According to our reckoning,' he proceeded, 'Mas'r Davy's here, and mine, she is like, one day, to make her own poor solitary course to London.Chapters 46-48 (54% in)
- 'Come, according to promise, to bid farewell to 't, eh, Mas'r Davy?' he said, taking up the candle.Chapters 49-51 (96% in)
- If it had been ME, I shouldn't have wondered; for I don't make myself out a gentleman (though I never was in the streets either, as you were, according to Micawber), but being you!Chapters 52-54 (20% in)
- At nine, accordingly, we went out in a little chariot, and drove to London.Chapters 52-54 (97% in)
- We arranged the time of our visit, and I wrote accordingly to Mr. Creakle that evening.Chapters 61-62 (22% in)
- When, according to our old custom, we sat before the fire at night, we often fell into this train; as naturally, and as consciously to each other, as if we had unreservedly said so.Chapters 61-62 (65% in)
There are no more uses of "accord" flagged with this meaning in David Copperfield.
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2 —5 uses as in:
done of her own accord
Definition
mind — voluntarily (without anyone asking)
- I was charmed by her presently asking me, of her own accord, to give her that cookery-book I had once spoken of,Chapters 40-42 (53% in)
own accord = own mind (without prompting or anyone telling her to)
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- He took that off, too, when it was done with; cleared the table; piled everything on the dumb-waiter; gave us our wine-glasses; and, of his own accord, wheeled the dumb-waiter into the pantry.Chapters 28-30 (15% in)
- Mr. jorkins and old Tiffey shook their heads with one accord.Chapters 37-39 (50% in)
- 'If she had left of her own accord, she might; not as It was, sir.'Chapters 46-48 (31% in)
- He came near me no more; but devoted himself to an old gentleman in long gaiters, to meet whom a pint of special port seemed to come out of the cellar of its own accord, for he gave no order.Chapters 58-60 (29% in)
There are no more uses of "accord" flagged with this meaning in David Copperfield.
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? —2 uses
exact meaning not specified
- That is according as the young gentleman has his original character formed.Chapters 25-27 (77% in)
- If it don't act well, or don't quite accord with our mutual convenience, he can easily go to the right-about.Chapters 13-15 (93% in)
There are no more uses of "accord" in David Copperfield.
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