† 1. Harmoniously, agreeably; correspondingly. Obs.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., I. xvii. Into the same vnderstondingis to gidere accordingli thei fallen.
1481. Caxton, Myrrour, II. vi. 76. The olyfauntes goo moche symply and accordyngly to gydre.
1514. in Strype’s Eccl. Mem. (1822), I. II. iv. 9. The king’s most gracious coin is not accepted here [Tournay] and in England accordingly.
† 2. In accordance with what is proper or due; suitably, becomingly, duly, properly. Obs.
1528. Gardiner, in Pocock, Rec. Ref., I. xliii. 83. We shall not fail to signify the same unto your highness by our letters accordingly.
1567. Drant, Horace’s Ep., A. vj. To shape oute things accordyngly besetes a Poet’s arte.
1634. Ford, P. Warbuck, III. ii. (1811), 57. Enter at one door four Scotch Anticks, accordingly habited; at another Warbeck’s followers disguised as four Wild Irish in trowses, long-haired, and accordingly habited.
† 3. In accordance with the order specified; respectively. Obs.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 842. Empedocles supposeth that Males and Females are begotten by the meanes of heat and cold accordingly.
4. In accordance with the logical premisses; agreeably, correspondingly.
1599. Shaks., Much Ado, III. ii. 125. When you haue seene more, & heard more, proceed accordingly.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., VI. 314. He was … adjudged to ride with his face to the Horse tale at Windsor and Ockingham with papers about his head, which was done accordingly.
1792. Anecd. W. Pitt, III. xxxix. 31. He is the receiver of stolen goods, and ought to be treated accordingly.
1848. C. Brontë, Jane Eyre (ed. 3), v. 36. She told me to remember that she had always been my best friend, and to speak of her and be grateful to her accordingly.
5. In accordance with the sequence of ideas; agreeably or conformably to what might be expected; in natural sequence, in due course; so.
1688. Col. Rec. Pennsylv., I. 235. He answered he would read it himselfe to y3 board, and accordingly read the same.
1772. Pennant, Tours in Scotl., 261 (1774). Accordingly having put up two days provisions—we put off.
1860. Tyndall, Glaciers, I. § 13. 92. The summer … was accordingly devoted to this purpose.
† 6. Accordingly to; agreeably or conformably to; according to. Obs.
1500. H. Swinburn, Testaments, 98. The value of the mariage … is commonlie rated accordinglie to the profites of his landes.
a. 1520. Myrroure of Our Ladye, 69. When ye rede these bokes ye oughte to laboure in your selfe inwardly, to sturre vp your affeccyons accordingly to the matter that ye rede.
7. Accordingly as = just as, according as. See ACCORDING adv. 3.
1618. trans. Barneveld’s Apology, G b. Questions were moued accordingly as order required, in these Prouinces.
1880. Cyples, Hum. Exp., v. 109. And accordingly as the simultaneity repeats itself.
