Sc. Agreement, good-will, good-fellowship; an expression of good will.
a. 1670. Spalding, Troub. Chas. I., I. 214 (Jam.). Articles of Bonaccord to be condescended upon by the magistrates of Aberdeen. Ibid., 216. A peremptory or present answer of bon-accord or mal-accord. Ibid., II. 57. During the time he was in Aberdeen, he got no bon-accord drunken to him.
Mod. (Aberdeen is sometimes called ‘the city of Bon-accord’: the word is also frequent in the titles of Scottish charitable and convivial societies.)
