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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
according
    adj 1: (followed by `to') in agreement with or accordant with;
           "according to instructions"
    2: (followed by `to') as reported or stated by; "according to
       historians"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Accord \Ac*cord"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accorded; p. pr. & vb.
   n. According.] [OE. acorden, accorden, OF. acorder, F.
   accorder, fr. LL. accordare; L. ad + cor, cordis, heart. Cf.
   Concord, Discord, and see Heart.]
   1. To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to
      another; to adjust; -- followed by to. [R.]
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            Her hands accorded the lute's music to the voice.
                                                  --Sidney.
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   2. To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to
      settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to
      accord suits or controversies.
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            When they were accorded from the fray. --Spenser.
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            All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and
            difficult can never be accorded but by a competent
            stock of critical learning.           --South.
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   3. To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as,
      to accord to one due praise. "According his desire."
      --Spenser.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
According \Ac*cord"ing\, adv.
   Accordingly; correspondingly. [Obs.] --Shak.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
According \Ac*cord"ing\, p. a.
   Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This
   according voice of national wisdom." --Burke. "Mind and soul
   according well." --Tennyson.
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         According to him, every person was to be bought.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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         Our zeal should be according to knowledge. --Sprat.
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   Note: According to has been called a prepositional phrase,
         but strictly speaking, according is a participle in the
         sense of agreeing, acceding, and to alone is the
         preposition.
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   According as, precisely as; the same as; corresponding to
      the way in which. According as is an adverbial phrase, of
      which the propriety has been doubted; but good usage
      sanctions it. See According, adv.
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            Is all things well,
            According as I gave directions?       --Shak.
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            The land which the Lord will give you according as
            he hath promised.                     --Ex. xii. 25.
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