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1 —80 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

carefully prepared in accord with the modern science of...
Book Two — 1805 (42% in)

accord = in keeping (or in agreement)

Other Uses (with this meaning)

Everyone again looked toward the door, which creaked as the second princess went in with the drink she had prepared according to Lorrain's instructions.
Book One — 1805 (63% in)
And the prince began explaining all the blunders which, according to him, Bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics.
Book One — 1805 (93% in)
According to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the night.
Book Two — 1805 (54% in)
More than ever was Boris resolved to serve in future not according to the written code, but under this unwritten law.
Book Three — 1805 (52% in)
The troops of the center, the reserves, and Bagration's right flank had not yet moved, but on the left flank the columns of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, which were to be the first to descend the heights to attack the French right flank and drive it into the Bohemian mountains according to plan, were already up and astir.
Book Three — 1805 (74% in)
According to the dispositions....
Book Three — 1805 (79% in)
Three hundred persons took their seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows deepest where the land lies lowest.
Book Four — 1806 (28% in)
In accordance with Lise's and Prince Andrew's wishes they had sent in good time to Moscow for a doctor and were expecting him at any moment.
Book Four — 1806 (56% in)
What distinguished them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of the good-natured Iogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according to the rules of his art, as he collected the tickets from all his visitors.
Book Four — 1806 (75% in)
Pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the Rhetor's instructions.
Book Five — 1806-07 (17% in)
He had become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had been so pleased at Olmutz and according to which an ensign might rank incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his success and at the inability of others to understand...
Book Five — 1806-07 (27% in)
He had become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had been so pleased at Olmutz and according to which an ensign might rank incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his success and at the inability of others to understand...
Book Five — 1806-07 (27% in)
Boris smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical or appreciative according to the way the joke was received.
Book Five — 1806-07 (30% in)
Those who retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to that it is we who lost the battle of Pultusk.
Book Five — 1806-07 (39% in)
The steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling the forests in the province of Kostroma, the land lower down the river, and the Crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which operations according to him were connected with such complicated measures—the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so on—that Pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: "Yes, yes, do so."
Book Five — 1806-07 (44% in)
Everywhere preparations were made not for ceremonious welcomes (which he knew Pierre would not like), but for just such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his master, would touch and delude him.
Book Five — 1806-07 (45% in)
Everywhere he saw the stewards' accounts, according to which the serfs' manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue coats.
Book Five — 1806-07 (46% in)
These according to Pierre's observations were men who had no belief in anything, nor desire for anything, but joined the Freemasons merely to associate with the wealthy young Brothers who were influential through their connections or rank, and of whom there were very many in the lodge.
Book Six — 1808-10 (23% in)
Apart from the fact that he had asked me several times whether N. and S. were members of our lodge (a question to which I could not reply) and that according to my observation he is incapable of feeling respect for our holy order and is too preoccupied and satisfied with the outer man to desire spiritual improvement, I had no cause to doubt him, but he seemed to me insincere, and all the time I stood alone with him in the dark temple it seemed to me that he was smiling contemptuously...
Book Six — 1808-10 (34% in)
The visitor was Bitski, who served on various committees, frequented all the societies in Petersburg, and a passionate devotee of the new ideas and of Speranski, and a diligent Petersburg newsmonger—one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes according to the fashion, but who for that very reason appear to be the warmest partisans.
Book Six — 1808-10 (64% in)
* Vera at the same time smiling with a sense of superiority over her good, conscientious husband, who all the same understood life wrongly, as according to Vera all men did.
Book Six — 1808-10 (73% in)
Vera, having decided in her own mind that Pierre ought to be entertained with conversation about the French embassy, at once began accordingly.
Book Six — 1808-10 (74% in)
All he cared about was gaiety and women, and as according to his ideas there was nothing dishonorable in these tastes, and he was incapable of considering what the gratification of his tastes entailed for others, he honestly considered himself irreproachable, sincerely despised rogues and bad people, and with a tranquil conscience carried his head high.
Book Eight — 1811-12 (52% in)
Pfuel and his adherents demanded a retirement into the depths of the country in accordance with precise laws defined by a pseudo-theory of war, and they saw only barbarism, ignorance, or evil intention in every deviation from that theory.
Book Nine — 1812 (38% in)
They insisted on the retention of the camp at Drissa, according to Pfuel's plan, but on changing the movements of the other armies.
Book Nine — 1812 (39% in)
And he acted accordingly.
Book Nine — 1812 (55% in)
By Agrafena Ivanovna's advice Natasha prepared herself not in their own parish, but at a church where, according to the devout Agrafena Ivanovna, the priest was a man of very severe and lofty life.
Book Nine — 1812 (71% in)
Hear us when we pray to Thee; strengthen with Thy might our most gracious sovereign lord, the Emperor Alexander Pavlovich; be mindful of his uprightness and meekness, reward him according to his righteousness, and let it preserve us, Thy chosen Israel!
Book Nine — 1812 (76% in)
The troops are moved according to the enemy's movements and the number of men increases and decreases...."
Book Nine — 1812 (96% in)
And in Helene's salon, which Rumyantsev himself honored with his visits, regarding Helene as a remarkably intelligent woman, they talked with the same ecstasy in 1812 as in 1808 of the "great nation" and the "great man," and regretted our rupture with France, a rupture which, according to them, ought to be promptly terminated by peace.
Book Ten — 1812 (18% in)
The fact was accordingly conveyed to Lavrushka.
Book Ten — 1812 (22% in)
Alpatych named others, but they too, according to Dron, had no horses available: some horses were carting for the government, others were too weak, and others had died for want of fodder.
Book Ten — 1812 (29% in)
Let it all be done properly, according to rule.
Book Ten — 1812 (40% in)
Pierre stepped out of his carriage and, passing the toiling militiamen, ascended the knoll from which, according to the doctor, the battlefield could be seen.
Book Ten — 1812 (57% in)
Bennigsen did not know this and moved the troops forward according to his own ideas without mentioning the matter to the commander in chief.
Book Ten — 1812 (63% in)
After the advance has begun in this manner, orders will be given in accordance with the enemy's movements.
Book Ten — 1812 (73% in)
But in the disposition it is said that, after the fight has commenced in this manner, orders will be given in accordance with the enemy's movements, and so it might be supposed that all necessary arrangements would be made by Napoleon during the battle.
Book Ten — 1812 (74% in)
They did not fear getting into trouble for not fulfilling orders or for acting on their own initiative, for in battle what is at stake is what is dearest to man—his own life—and it sometimes seems that safety lies in running back, sometimes in running forward; and these men who were right in the heat of the battle acted according to the mood of the moment.
Book Ten — 1812 (86% in)
As soon as they left the place where the balls and bullets were flying about, their superiors, located in the background, re-formed them and brought them under discipline and under the influence of that discipline led them back to the zone of fire, where under the influence of fear of death they lost their discipline and rushed about according to the chance promptings of the throng.
Book Ten — 1812 (86% in)
Your excellency, they say they have got ready, according to your orders, to go against the French, and they shouted something about treachery.
Book Eleven — 1812 (60% in)
The French patrol was one of those sent out through the various streets of Moscow by Durosnel's order to put a stop to the pillage, and especially to catch the incendiaries who, according to the general opinion which had that day originated among the higher French officers, were the cause of the conflagrations.
Book Eleven — 1812 (**% in)
The prisoners were placed in a certain order, according to the list (Pierre was sixth), and were led to the post.
Book Twelve — 1812 (58% in)
Your last reports were written on the twentieth, and during all this time not only has no action been taken against the enemy or for the relief of the ancient capital, but according to your last report you have even retreated farther.
Book Thirteen — 1812 (12% in)
Meantime, according to the dispositions which said that "the First Column will march" and so on, the infantry of the belated columns, commanded by Bennigsen and directed by Toll, had started in due order and, as always happens, had got somewhere, but not to their appointed places.
Book Thirteen — 1812 (27% in)
When Kutuzov was informed that at the French rear—where according to the reports of the Cossacks there had previously been nobody—there were now two battalions of Poles, he gave a sidelong glance at Ermolov who was behind him and to whom he had not spoken since the previous day.
Book Thirteen — 1812 (29% in)
They are asking to attack and making plans of all kinds, but as soon as one gets to business nothing is ready, and the enemy, forewarned, takes measures accordingly.
Book Thirteen — 1812 (29% in)
If in the descriptions given by historians, especially French ones, we find their wars and battles carried out in accordance with previously formed plans, the only conclusion to be drawn is that those descriptions are false.
Book Thirteen — 1812 (31% in)
For that, only very simple and easy steps were necessary: not to allow the troops to loot, to prepare winter clothing—of which there was sufficient in Moscow for the whole army—and methodically to collect the provisions, of which (according to the French historians) there were enough in Moscow to supply the whole army for six months.
Book Thirteen — 1812 (33% in)
The French generals lost touch with the Russian army of sixty thousand men, and according to Thiers it was only eventually found, like a lost pin, by the skill—and apparently the genius—of Murat.
Book Thirteen — 1812 (44% in)
The corporal came, according to orders, to shut the door.
Book Thirteen — 1812 (64% in)
So according to history it has been found from the most ancient times, and so it is to our own day.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (1% in)
Let us imagine two men who have come out to fight a duel with rapiers according to all the rules of the art of fencing.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (3% in)
Then let us imagine that the combatant who so sensibly employed the best and simplest means to attain his end was at the same time influenced by traditions of chivalry and, desiring to conceal the facts of the case, insisted that he had gained his victory with the rapier according to all the rules of art.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (4% in)
The fencer who demanded a contest according to the rules of fencing was the French army; his opponent who threw away the rapier and snatched up the cudgel was the Russian people; those who try to explain the matter according to the rules of fencing are the historians who have described the event.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (4% in)
The fencer who demanded a contest according to the rules of fencing was the French army; his opponent who threw away the rapier and snatched up the cudgel was the Russian people; those who try to explain the matter according to the rules of fencing are the historians who have described the event.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (4% in)
In spite of the complaints of the French as to the nonobservance of the rules, in spite of the fact that to some highly placed Russians it seemed rather disgraceful to fight with a cudgel and they wanted to assume a pose en quarte or en tierce according to all the rules, and to make an adroit thrust en prime, and so on—the cudgel of the people's war was lifted with all its menacing and majestic strength, and without consulting anyone's tastes or rules and regardless of anything else,...
Book Fourteen — 1812 (5% in)
And it is well for a people who do not—as the French did in 1813—salute according to all the rules of art, and, presenting the hilt of their rapier gracefully and politely, hand it to their magnanimous conqueror, but at the moment of trial, without asking what rules others have adopted in similar cases, simply and easily pick up the first cudgel that comes to hand and strike with it till the feeling of resentment and revenge in their soul yields to a feeling of contempt and compassion.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (5% in)
The French, retreating in 1812—though according to tactics they should have separated into detachments to defend themselves—congregated into a mass because the spirit of the army had so fallen that only the mass held the army together.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (10% in)
The Russians, on the contrary, ought according to tactics to have attacked in mass, but in fact they split up into small units, because their spirit had so risen that separate individuals, without orders, dealt blows at the French without needing any compulsion to induce them to expose themselves to hardships and dangers.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (10% in)
Now only the commanders of detachments with staffs, and moving according to rules at a distance from the French, still regarded many things as impossible.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (12% in)
Men can only be taken prisoners if they surrender according to the rules of strategy and tactics, as the Germans did.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (97% in)
Everyone assured himself that all would happen according to plan, and therefore insisted that it was just the crossing of the Berezina that destroyed the French army.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (16% in)
The burning of Moscow had cost him, according to the head steward's calculation, about two million rubles.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (24% in)
All the well-known people of that period, from Alexander and Napoleon to Madame de Stael, Photius, Schelling, Fichte, Chateaubriand, and the rest, pass before their stern judgment seat and are acquitted or condemned according to whether they conduced to progress or to reaction.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (37% in)
According to their accounts a reaction took place at that time in Russia also, and the chief culprit was Alexander I, the same man who according to them was the chief cause of the liberal movement at the commencement of his reign, being the savior of Russia.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (37% in)
According to their accounts a reaction took place at that time in Russia also, and the chief culprit was Alexander I, the same man who according to them was the chief cause of the liberal movement at the commencement of his reign, being the savior of Russia.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (37% in)
...contradictions and possesses an unchanging standard of good and bad by which to try historic characters and events; let us say that Alexander could have done everything differently; let us say that with guidance from those who blame him and who profess to know the ultimate aim of the movement of humanity, he might have arranged matters according to the program his present accusers would have given him—of nationality, freedom, equality, and progress (these, I think, cover the ground).
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (38% in)
The entire household was governed according to Pierre's supposed orders, that is, by his wishes which Natasha tried to guess.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (57% in)
According to this view the power of historical personages, represented as the product of many forces, can no longer, it would seem, be regarded as a force that itself produces events.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (76% in)
Peasants having no clear idea of the cause of rain, say, according to whether they want rain or fine weather: "The wind has blown the clouds away," or, "The wind has brought up the clouds."
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (77% in)
Each historian, according to his view of what constitutes a nation's progress, looks for these conditions in the greatness, wealth, freedom, or enlightenment of citizens of France or some other country.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (81% in)
If the animals leading the herd change, this happens because the collective will of all the animals is transferred from one leader to another, according to whether the animal is or is not leading them in the direction selected by the whole herd.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (84% in)
Our conception of the degree of freedom often varies according to differences in the point of view from which we regard the event, but every human action appears to us as a certain combination of freedom and inevitability.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (92% in)
The proportion of freedom to inevitability decreases and increases according to the point of view from which the action is regarded, but their relation is always one of inverse proportion.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (92% in)
In all these cases the conception of freedom is increased or diminished and the conception of compulsion is correspondingly decreased or increased, according to the point of view from which the action is regarded.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (93% in)
The responsibility appears greater or less according to our greater or lesser knowledge of the circumstances in which the man was placed whose action is being judged, and according to the greater or lesser interval of time between the commission of the action and its investigation, and according to the greater or lesser understanding of the causes that led to the action.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (95% in)
The responsibility appears greater or less according to our greater or lesser knowledge of the circumstances in which the man was placed whose action is being judged, and according to the greater or lesser interval of time between the commission of the action and its investigation, and according to the greater or lesser understanding of the causes that led to the action.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (95% in)
The responsibility appears greater or less according to our greater or lesser knowledge of the circumstances in which the man was placed whose action is being judged, and according to the greater or lesser interval of time between the commission of the action and its investigation, and according to the greater or lesser understanding of the causes that led to the action.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (95% in)
CHAPTER X. Thus our conception of free will and inevitability gradually diminishes or increases according to the greater or lesser connection with the external world, the greater or lesser remoteness of time, and the greater or lesser dependence on the causes in relation to which we contemplate a man's life.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (95% in)

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2 —10 uses as in:
done of her own accord

Definition

mind

the horses began to tug at the reins of their own accord and increased their pace.
Book Seven — 1810-11 (28% in)

own accord = own mind (without anyone asking)

Other Uses (with this meaning)

She will come running to me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything.
Book One — 1805 (37% in)
Rook pulled at the reins and started of his own accord.
Book Two — 1805 (85% in)
"It seems that there will be no need to bring Mary out, suitors are coming to us of their own accord," incautiously remarked the little princess on hearing the news.
Book Three — 1805 (15% in)
When they came out onto the beaten highroad—polished by sleigh runners and cut up by rough-shod hoofs, the marks of which were visible in the moonlight—the horses began to tug at the reins of their own accord and increased their pace.
Book Seven — 1810-11 (80% in)
They would have had to retire of their own accord, for they had no water for men or horses.
Book Ten — 1812 (17% in)
Heaven only knows who arranged all this and when, but it all got done as if of its own accord.
Book Ten — 1812 (27% in)
Many of them were punished, some sent to Siberia, many died of cold and hunger on the road, many returned of their own accord, and the movement died down of itself just as it had sprung up, without apparent reason.
Book Ten — 1812 (28% in)
The only instruction Kutuzov gave of his own accord during that report referred to looting by the Russian troops.
Book Ten — 1812 (45% in)
Those who were able to get away were going of their own accord, those who remained behind decided for themselves what they must do.
Book Eleven — 1812 (60% in)

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exact meaning not specified

Toll wrote a disposition: "The first column will march to so and so," etc. And as usual nothing happened in accord with the disposition.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (6% in)

Anna Pavlovna greeted him with the nod she accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room.
Book One — 1805 (6% in)
Prince Andrew listened attentively to Bagration's colloquies with the commanding officers and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders were really given, but that Prince Bagration tried to make it appear that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least in accord with his intentions.
Book Two — 1805 (78% in)
And as if in accord with Rostov's feeling, there was a deathly stillness amid which was heard the Emperor's voice.
Book Three — 1805 (57% in)
Bagration appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, which, in accord with the Club custom, he had given up to the hall porter.
Book Four — 1806 (25% in)
Sometimes he joined in a conversation which interested him and, regardless of whether any "gentlemen of the embassy" were present or not, lispingly expressed his views, which were sometimes not at all in accord with the accepted tone of the moment.
Book Six — 1808-10 (32% in)
He nodded hurriedly in reply to Chernyshev, and smiled ironically on hearing that the sovereign was inspecting the fortifications that he, Pfuel, had planned in accord with his theory.
Book Nine — 1812 (45% in)
He had a science—the theory of oblique movements deduced by him from the history of Frederick the Great's wars, and all he came across in the history of more recent warfare seemed to him absurd and barbarous—monstrous collisions in which so many blunders were committed by both sides that these wars could not be called wars, they did not accord with the theory, and therefore could not serve as material for science.
Book Nine — 1812 (46% in)
Rostov charged the French because he could not restrain his wish for a gallop across a level field; and in the same way the innumerable people who took part in the war acted in accord with their personal characteristics, habits, circumstances, and aims.
Book Ten — 1812 (0% in)
So the way in which these people killed one another was not decided by Napoleon's will but occurred independently of him, in accord with the will of hundreds of thousands of people who took part in the common action.
Book Ten — 1812 (75% in)
"Your honor...." replied the shopman in the frieze coat, "your honor, in accord with the proclamation of his highest excellency the count, they desire to serve, not sparing their lives, and it is not any kind of riot, but as his highest excellence said...."
Book Eleven — 1812 (56% in)
But the assignment of these various meanings to the factor does not yield results which accord with the historic facts.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (8% in)
The historians, in accord with the old habit of acknowledging divine intervention in human affairs, want to see the cause of events in the expression of the will of someone endowed with power, but that supposition is not confirmed either by reason or by experience.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (85% in)
Apart from that, the chief source of our error in this matter is due to the fact that in the historical accounts a whole series of innumerable, diverse, and petty events, such for instance as all those which led the French armies to Russia, is generalized into one event in accord with the result produced by that series of events, and corresponding with this generalization the whole series of commands is also generalized into a single expression of will.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (86% in)

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