afforded English
Verb
(head)
(afford)
afford English
Alternative forms
* afoord, affoord, affoard, affowrd (obsolete)
Verb
( en verb)
To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious;—with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough.
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*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”
To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury.
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To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.
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To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.
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Usage notes
* Sense 1. This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See
Derived terms
* affordable
* affordance
* offer affordances
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accorded English
Verb
(head)
(accord)
accord English
Noun
( en noun)
Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
* 1769 ,
- These all continued with one accord in prayer.
* Francis Bacon
- a mediator of an accord and peace between them
A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
* 17th' ' century , "The Self-Subsistence of the Soul", ,
- Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
Agreement or harmony of things in general.
- the accord of light and shade in painting
(legal) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
- (Blackstone)
(international law) An international agreement.
- The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
(obsolete) Assent
Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
- Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord .
* Bible, Leviticus xxv. 5
- That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.
Synonyms
* (concurrence of opinion) consent, assent
* (international agreement) treaty
Derived terms
* of its own accord, of one's own accord
* with one accord
Related terms
* chord
Verb
(en verb)
(lb) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
*1590 , (Philip Sidney), (w, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia) , p.150:
*:[H]er hands accorded the Lutes musicke to the voice;
(lb) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
*, Book III:
*:But Satyrane forth stepping, did them stay / And with faire treatie pacifide their ire, / Then when they were accorded from the fray
*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:all which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult, can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning
(lb) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony.
*1593 , (William Shakespeare), , III-i:
*:For things are often spoke and seldom meant; / But that my heart accordeth with my tongue,—
*1671 , (John Milton), (Paradise Regained) , :
*:[T]hy actions to thy words accord ;
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
(lb) To agree in pitch and tone.
To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
*1951 , United Nations' , article 14:
*:In respect of the protection of industrial property,a refugee shall be accorded' in the country in which he has his habitual residence the same protection as is ' accorded to nationals of that country.
To give consent.
To arrive at an agreement.
Derived terms
* accord with
* accordance
* according
* accordingly
* accordment
* defence accord
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