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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1459-1580
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Cord, v.1 [ME. cord (c 1300), reduced from Accord v.]
1. intr. To be suitable; to agree with. a1400 Legends of the Saints ii. 757.
Thai fosterit him … With sic dietis, as cordand wes For the padok a1500 Bernardus 317.
It cordis il in ȝouthhede of a childe … Diuersiteis of wynis for to knaw
2. To agree or assent (to a thing or with another); to come to an agreement. a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxi. 136.
He, that lele wes til his lord, Be na way wald thar-to cord c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace i. 84.
Be suttale band thai cordyt of this thing c1475 Ib. x. 979.
Thus cordyt thai 1535 Stewart 27804.
How the Brit Lordis wald nocht let Arthure cord with Modred 1535 Ib. 33574; etc.
Thir thre Kingis so cordit of the new With so grit peax 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 6323.
Thairfoir the Lord na way will cord, Quhair pryde hes credence for to gyde 1560 Ib. 8303.
b. In p.p. Of persons: Agreed, accorded. 1459 Rep. Hist. MSS., Var. Coll. V. 82.
Thai ar cordyt, fullely oblyst, [etc.] … to gang to the land of the Estfeld to morn 1535 Stewart 48869.
Sone war tha cordit on that samin kynd
3. tr. To agree upon, settle. 1490 Rec. Earld. Orkney 199.
It is appontit and cordit betuix the said personis that [etc.] c 1580 Waus Corr. I. 113.
I traist that my servand shew your L. the particular sowm quhilk I desyr be cordit
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