Word Meanings - CONTRAPUNTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or according to the rules of, counterpoint.

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• ACCORD
  An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit. Blackstone. With one accord, with unanimity. They rushed with one accord into the theater. Acts xix. 29. (more
• ACCORDANCY
  Accordance. Paley.
• ACCORDANTLY
  In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• ACCORDINGLY
  1. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak. 2. In natural sequence; consequently; so. Syn. -- Consequently; therefore; wherefore; hence; so. -- Accordingly, Consequently, indicate
• ACCORDING
  Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.
• ACCORDMENT
  Agreement; reconcilement. Gower.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• ACCORDABLE
  1. Agreeing. Chaucer. 2. Reconcilable; in accordance.
• ACCORDANT
  Agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to. Strictly accordant with true morality. Darwin. And now his voice accordant to the string. Coldsmith.
• ACCORDIONIST
  A player on the accordion.
• ACCORDION
  A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.
• ACCORDANCE
  Agreement; harmony; conformity. "In strict accordance with the law." Macaulay. Syn. -- Harmony; unison; coincidence.
• COUNTERPOINT
  An opposite point Sir E. Sandys.
• BON-ACCORD
  Good will; good fellowship; agreement.
• DISACCORDANT
  Not accordant. Fabyan.
• CERULESCENT
  Tending to cerulean; light bluish.
• INACCORDANT
  Not accordant; discordant.
• DISACCORD
  To refuse to assent. Spenser.