All 34 Uses of

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Dante's Purgatory -- translated by Norton

According to the geography of the time Asia and Africa lay north of the equator, so that even to their inhabitants these stars were invisible.†
Canto 1-11 (definition 1) *

[1] Were it true that, as according to the Platonists, there were more than one soul in man, he might give attention to two things at once.†
Canto 1-11 (definition 1)

[1] Belacqua, according to Benvenuto da Imola, was a Florentine, a maker of citherns and other musical instruments; he carved with great care the necks and heads of his citherns, and sometimes he played on them.†
Canto 1-11 (definition 1)

Or, according to the Vulgate, "Anima carnis in sanguine est." [4] That is to say, in the territory of the Paduans, whose city was reputed to have been founded by Antenor.†
Canto 1-11 (definition 1)

He who looks so large-limbed,[7] and who accords in singing with him of the masculine nose,[8] wore girt the cord of every worth, and if the youth that is sitting behind him had followed him as king, truly had worth gone from vase to vase, which cannot be said of the other heirs: James and Frederick hold the realms; [9] the better heritage no one possesses.†
Canto 1-11 (definition 2)

[2] Dante passes three nights in Purgatory, and each night his sleep is terminated by a dream towards the hour of dawn, the time when, according to the belief of classical antiquity, the visions of dreams are symbolic and prophetic.†
Canto 1-11 (definition 1)

[4] The sphere of fire by which, according to the mediaeval cosmography, the sphere of the air was surrounded.†
Canto 1-11 (definition 1)

Justification itself consists, according to St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologica, Prima Secundae, quaest. cxiii. art.†
Canto 1-11 (definition 1)

True it is that they were more or less contracted according as they had more or less upon their backs; and he who had most patience in his looks, weeping, appeared to say, "I can no more."†
Canto 1-11 (definition 1)

Ah! so may justice and pity unburden you speedily that ye may be able to move the wing, which according to your desire may lift you, show on which hand is the shortest way towards the stair; and if there is more than one pass, point out to us that which least steeply slopes; for this man who comes with me, because of the load of the flesh of Adam wherewith he is clothed, is chary against his will of mounting up.†
Canto 1-11 (definition 1)

"When he was living most renowned," said he, "laying aside all shame, of his own accord he planted himself in the Campo of Siena,[9] and there, to draw his friend from the punishment he was enduring in the prison of Charles, brought himself to tremble in every vein.†
Canto 1-11 (definition 3) *

[1] Progne or Philomela, according to one or the other version of the tragic myth, was changed into the nightingale, after her anger had led her to take cruel vengeance on Tereus.†
Canto 12-22 (definition 1)

[2] Haman, who, according to the English version, was hanged, but according to the Vulgate, was crucified—Esther, vii.†
Canto 12-22 (definition 1)

[2] Haman, who, according to the English version, was hanged, but according to the Vulgate, was crucified—Esther, vii.†
Canto 12-22 (definition 1)

This is the principle wherefrom is derived the reason of desert in you, according as it gathers in and winnows good and evil loves.†
Canto 12-22 (definition 1)

And such as was the rage and throng, which of old Ismenus and Asopus saw at night along their banks, in case the Thebans were in need of Bacchus, so, according to what I saw of them as they came, those who by good will and right love are ridden curve their steps along that circle.†
Canto 12-22 (definition 1)

Then when I could do with myself according to my will, I drew me above that creature whose words had first made me note him, saying, "Spirit in whom weeping matures that without which no one can turn to God, suspend a little for me thy greater care.†
Canto 12-22 (definition 1)

[3] St. Nicholas, Bishop of Mira, who, according to the legend, knowing that owing to the poverty of their father, three maidens were exposed to the risk of leading lives of dishonor, secretly, at night, threw into the window of their house money enough to provide each with a dowry.†
Canto 12-22 (definition 1)

In 1300, according to common report, he sold his young daughter in marriage to the old Marquis of Este.†
Canto 12-22 (definition 1)

'[5] At times one speaks loud, and another low, according to the affection which spurs us to speak now at a greater, now at a less pace.†
Canto 12-22 (definition 1)

"Gloria in excelsis Deo,"[2] all were saying, according to what I gathered from those near at hand whose cry it was possible to understand.†
Canto 12-22 (definition 1)

[1] "According to that buoyant and immortal sentence with which Aristotle begins his Metaphysics, 'All mankind naturally desire knowledge.'†
Canto 12-22 (definition 1)

[4] Dry vapor, according to Aristotle, was the source of wind and of earthquake.†
Canto 12-22 (definition 1)

His aspect had taken my sight from me, wherefore I turned me behind my teachers like one who goes according as he hears.†
Canto 23-33 (definition 1)

According as the desires and the other affections impress us the shade is shaped; and this is the cause of that at which thou wonderest.†
Canto 23-33 (definition 1)

[10] Of Acheron or of Tiber, according as the soul is damned or saved.†
Canto 23-33 (definition 1)

Free, upright, and sane is thine own free will, and it would be wrong not to act according to its pleasure; wherefore thee over thyself I crown and mitre.†
Canto 23-33 (definition 1)

…the primal revolution,[2] if its circle be not broken by some projection, upon this height, which is wholly disengaged in the living air, this motion strikes, and makes the wood, since it is dense, resound; and the plant being struck hath such power that with its virtue it impregnates the breeze, and this then in its whirling scatters it around: and the rest of the earth, according as it is fit in itself, or through its sky, conceives and brings forth divers trees of divers virtues.†
Canto 23-33 (definition 1)

[3] These banners to the rear were longer than my sight, and according to my judgment the outermost were ten paces apart.†
Canto 23-33 (definition 1)

But when I heard in their sweet accords their compassion for me, more than if they had said, "Lady, why dost thou so confound him?" the ice that was bound tight around my heart became breath and water, and with anguish poured from my breast through my mouth and eyes.†
Canto 23-33 (definition 2) *

Not only through the working of the great wheels,[2] which direct every seed to some end according as the stars are its companions, but through largess of divine graces, which have for their rain vapors so lofty that our sight goes not near thereto,—this man was such in his new life, virtually, that every right habit would have made admirable proof in him.†
Canto 23-33 (definition 1)

[4] According to a belief, which the old commentators report as commonly held by the Florentines, if a murderer could contrive within nine days of the murder to eat a sop of bread dipped in wine, above the grave of his victim, he would escape from the vengeance of the family of the murdered man.†
Canto 23-33 (definition 1)

[9] According to a misreading of a verse in Ovid's Metam.†
Canto 23-33 (definition 1)

And more coruscant, and with slower steps, the sun was holding the circle of the meridian, which is set here or there according to the aspect,[1] when even as he, who goes before a troop as guide, stops if he find some strange thing on his track, the seven ladies stopped at the edge of a pale shade, such as beneath green leaves and black boughs the Alp casts over its cold streams.†
Canto 23-33 (definition 1)

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(1) (accord as in: according to, or in accord with)
in keeping with; or in agreement/harmony/unity with
This meaning of accord is often seen in the form according to or accordingly 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
- "We got a flat tire. Accordingly, I pulled to the side of the road." -- because of what was just said; or as a result

(2) (accord as in: reached an accord)
an agreement

editor's notes: In this sense, accord can refer to a formal agreement (such as one written between two countries) or an informal agreement (such as an unvoiced consensus about what should be done).

(3) (accord as in: done of her own accord)
mind

editor's notes: This sense of accord is typically seen in the form own accord or one accord.

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Dante's Purgatory -- translated by Norton