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µ In modern law, proposal and acceptance are the constituent elements into which all contracts are resolved. Acceptance of a bill of exchange, check, draft, or order, is an engagement to pay it according, to the terms. This engagement is usually made by writing the word ½accepted¸ across the face of the bill. Acceptance of goods, under the statute of frauds, is an intelligent acceptance by a party knowing the nature of the transaction. 6. Meaning; acceptation. [Obs.] Acceptance of persons, partiality, favoritism. See under Accept. AcÏcept¶anÏcy (#), n. Acceptance. [R.] Here's a proof of gift, But here's no proof, sir, of acceptancy. Mrs. Browning. AcÏcept¶ant (#), a. Accepting; receiving. AcÏcept¶ant, n. An accepter. Chapman. Ac·cepÏta¶tion (#), n. 1. Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. [Obs. or Archaic] This is saying worthy of all acceptation. 1 Tim. i. 15. Some things … are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God. Hooker. 2. The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation. My words, in common acceptation, Could never give this provocation. Gay. AcÏcept¶edÏly (#), adv. In a accepted manner; admittedly. AcÏcept¶er (#), n. 1. A person who accepts; a taker. 2. A respecter; a viewer with partiality. [Obs.] God is no accepter of persons. Chillingworth. 3. (Law) An acceptor. AcÏcep·tiÏla¶tion (#), n. [L. acceptilatio entry of a debt collected, acquittance, fr. p. p. of accipere (cf. Accept) + latio a carrying, fr. latus, p. p. of ferre to carry: cf. F. acceptilation.] (Civil Law) Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission. AcÏcep¶tion (#), n. [L. acceptio a receiving, accepting: cf. F. acception.] Acceptation; the received meaning. [Obs.] Here the word ½baron¸ is not to be taken in that restrictive sense to which the modern acception hath confined it. Fuller. Acceptation of persons or faces (Eccl.), favoritism; partiality. [Obs.] Wyclif. AcÏcept¶ive (#), a. 1. Fit for acceptance. 2. Ready to accept. [Obs.] B. Jonson. AcÏcept¶or (#; 277), n. [L.] One who accepts; specifically (Law & Com.), one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted. AcÏcess¶ (#; 277), n. [F. accŠs, L. accessus, fr. accedere. See Accede.] 1. A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince. I did repel his letters, and denied His access to me. Shak. 2. The means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land. ½All access was thronged.¸ Milton. 3. Admission to sexual intercourse. During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown. Blackstone. 4. Increase by something added; addition; as, an access of territory. [In this sense accession is more generally used.] I, from the influence of thy looks, receive Access in every virtue. Milton. 5. An onset, attack, or fit of disease. The first access looked like an apoplexy. Burnet. 6. A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury. [A Gallicism] AcÏces¶saÏriÏly (#), adv. In the manner of an accessary. AcÏces¶saÏriÏness, n. The state of being accessary. AcÏces¶saÏry (#; 277), a. Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory. To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary. Shak. Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. Milton. AcÏces¶saÏry (277), n.; pl. Accessaries (#). [Cf. Accessory and LL. accessarius.] (Law) One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense. Accessary before the fact (Law), one who commands or counsels an offense, not being present at its commission. Ð Accessary after the fact, one who, after an offense, assists or shelters the offender, not being present at the commission of the offense. µ This word, as used in law, is spelt accessory by Blackstone and many others; but in this sense is spelt accessary by Bouvier, Burrill, Burns, Whishaw, Dane, and the Penny Cyclopedia; while in other senses it is spelt accessory. In recent textÐbooks on criminal law the distinction is not preserved, the spelling being either accessary or accessory. AcÏcess·iÏbil¶iÏty (#), n. [L. accessibilitas: cf. F. accessibilit‚.] The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility. Langhorne. AcÏcess¶iÏble (#), a. [L. accessibilis, fr. accedere: cf. F. accessible. See Accede.] 1. Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person. 2. Open to the influence of; Ð with to. ½Minds accessible to reason.¸ Macaulay. 3. Obtainable; to be got at. The best information … at present accessible. Macaulay. AcÏcess¶iÏbly (#), adv. In an accessible manner. AsÏces¶sion (#), n. [L. accessio, fr. accedere: cf. F. accession. See Accede.] 1. A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy. 2. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory. The only accession which the Roman empire received was the province of Britain. Gibbon. 3. (Law) (a) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf. (b) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers. Kent. 4. The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; Ð applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty. 5. (Med.) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm. Syn. Ð Increase; addition; augmentation; enlargement. AcÏces¶sionÏal (#), a. Pertaining to accession; additional. [R.] Sir T. Browne. AcÏces¶sive (#), a. Additional. Ac·cesÏso¶riÏal (#), a. Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt. AcÏces¶soÏriÏly (#), adv. In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary. AcÏces¶soÏriÏness, n. The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately. AcÏces¶soÏry (#; 277), a. [L. accessorius. See Access, and cf. Accessary.] Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music. µ Ash accents the antepenult; and this is not only more regular, but preferable, on account of easiness of pronunciation. Most orho‰pists place the accent on the first syllable. Syn. Ð Accompanying; contributory; auxiliary; subsidiary; subservient; additional; acceding. AcÏces¶soÏry, n.; pl. Accessories (#). 1. That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate. ½The aspect and accessories of a den of banditti.¸ Carlyle. 2. (Law) Same as Accessary, n. 3. (Fine Arts) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts. Elmes. Syn. Ð Abettor; accomplice; ally; coadjutor. See Abettor. Ø AcÏciac·caÏtu¶ra (#), n. [It., from acciaccare to crush.] (Mus.) A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; Ð used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura. Ac¶ciÏdence (#), n. [A corruption of Eng. accidents, pl. of accident. See Accident, 2.] 1. The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. Milton. 2. The rudiments of any subject. Lowell. Ac¶ciÏdent (#), n. [F. accident, fr. L. accidens, Ïdentis, p. pr. of accidere to happen; ad + cadere to fall. See Cadence, Case.] 1. Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. Of moving accidents by flood and field. Shak. Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident: It is the very place God meant for thee. Trench. 2. (Gram.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case. 3. (Her.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms. 4. (Log.) (a) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute. (b) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness. 5. Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident. This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea. J. P. Mahaffy. 6. Unusual appearance or effect. [Obs.] Chaucer. µ Accident, in Law, is equivalent to casus, or such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation. Ac·ciÏden¶tal (#), a. [Cf. F. accidentel, earlier accidental.] 1. Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit. 2. Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play. Accidental chords (Mus.), those which contain one or more tones foreign to their proper harmony. Ð Accidental colors (Opt.), colors depending on the hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for complementary colors. They are purely subjective sensations of color which often result from the contemplation of actually colored bodies. Ð Accidental point (Persp.), the point in which a right line, drawn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts the perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from the principal point, or point of view, where a line drawn from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets this plane. Ð Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning bodies. Fairholt. Syn. Ï Casual; fortuitous; contingent; occasional; adventitious. Ð Accidental, Incidental, Casual, Fortuitous, Contingent. We speak of a thing as accidental when it falls out as by chance, and not in the regular course of things; as, an accidental meeting, an accidental advantage, etc. We call a thing incidental when it falls, as it were, into some regular course of things, but is secondary, and forms no essential part thereof; as, an incremental remark, an incidental evil, an incidental benefit. We speak of a thing as casual, when it falls out or happens, as it were, by mere chance, without being prearranged or premeditated; as, a casual remark or encounter; a casual observer. An idea of the unimportant is attached to what is casual. Fortuitous is applied to what occurs without any known cause, and in opposition to what has been foreseen; as, a fortuitous concourse of atoms. We call a thing contingent when it is such that, considered in itself, it may or may not happen, but is dependent for its existence on something else; as, the time of my coming will be contingent on intelligence yet to be received. Ac·ciÏden¶tal (#), n. 1. A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally. He conceived it just that accidentals … should sink with the substance of the accusation. Fuller. 2. pl. (Paint.) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow. 3. (Mus.) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note. Ac·ciÏden¶talÏism (#), n. Accidental character or effect. Ruskin. Ac·ciÏdenÏtal¶iÏty (#), n. The quality of being accidental; accidentalness. [R.] Coleridge. Ac·ciÏden¶talÏly (#), adv. In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially. Ac·ciÏden¶talÏness, n. The quality of being accidental; casualness. Ac¶ciÏdie (#), n. [OF. accide, accidie, LL. accidia, acedia, fr. Gr. ?; ? priv. + ? care.] Sloth; torpor. [Obs.] ½The sin of accidie.¸ Chaucer. Ac·ciÏpen¶ser (#), n. See Acipenser. AcÏcip¶iÏent (#), n. [L. accipiens, p. pr. of accipere. See Accept.] A receiver. [R.] Bailey Ø AcÏcip¶iÏter (#), n.; pl. E. Accipiters (#). L. Accipitres (#). [L., hawk.] 1. (Zo”l.) A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores. 2. (Surg.) A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk. AcÏcip¶iÏtral (#), n. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike. Lowell. Ø AcÏcip¶iÏtres (#), n. pl. [L., hawks.] (Zo”l.) The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls. AcÏcip¶iÏtrine (#; 277), a. [Cf. F. accipitrin.] (Zo”l.) Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike. Ø AcÏcis¶mus (#), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?.] (Rhet.) Affected refusal; coyness. AcÏcite¶ (#), v. t. [L. accitus, p. p. of accire, accere, to call for; ad + ciere to move, call. See Cite.] To cite; to summon. [Obs.] Our heralds now accited all that were Endamaged by the Elians. Chapman. AcÏclaim¶ (#), v. t. [L. acclamare; ad + clamare to cry out. See Claim, Clamor.] [R.] 1. To applaud. ½A glad acclaming train.¸ Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy. AcÏclaim¶, v. i. To shout applause. AcÏclaim¶, n. Acclamation. [Poetic] Milton. AcÏclaim¶er (#), n. One who acclaims. Ac·claÏma¶tion (#), n. [L. acclamatio: cf. F. acclamation.] 1. A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause. On such a day, a holiday having been voted by acclamation, an ordinary walk would not satisfy the children. Southey. 2. (Antiq.) A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy. Acclamation medals are those on which laudatory acclamations are recorded. Elmes. AcÏclam¶aÏtoÏry (#), a. Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation. AcÏcli¶maÏtaÏble (#), a. Capable of being acclimated. AcÏcli·maÏta¶tion (#), n. [Cf. F. acclimation. See Acclimate.] Acclimatization. AcÏcli¶mat? (#; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Acclimated (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Acclimating.] [F. acclimater; ? (l. ad) + climat climate. See Climate.] To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. J. H. Newman. AcÏcli¶mateÏment (#), n. Acclimation. [R.] Ac·cliÏma¶tion (#), n. The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization. AcÏcli¶maÏti·zaÏble (#), a. Capable of being acclimatized.
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AcÏcli¶maÏtiÏza¶tion (#), n. The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured.
Darwin.
AcÏcli¶maÏtize (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Acclimatized (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Acclimatizing (#).] To inure or habituate a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.
AcÏcli¶maÏture (#; 135), n. The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. [R.]
Caldwell.
AcÏclive¶ (#), a. Acclivous. [Obs.]
AcÏcliff¶iÏtous (#), a. Acclivous.
I. Taylor.
AcÏcliv¶iÏty, n.; pl. Acclivities (#). [L. acclivitas, fr. acclivis, acclivus, ascending; ad + clivus a hill, slope, fr. root kli to lean. See Lean.] A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.
AcÏcli¶vous (#; 277), a. [L. acclivis and acclivus.] Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; Ð opposed to declivous.
AcÏcloy¶ (#), v. t. [OF. encloyer, encloer, F. enclouer, to drive in a nail, fr. L. in + clavus nail.] To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See Cloy. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
AcÏcoast¶ (#), v. t. & i. [See Accost, Coast.] To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. [Obs.]
Whether high towering or accosting low.
Spenser.
AcÏcoil¶ (#), v. t. [OE. acoillir to receive, F. accueillir; L. ad + colligere to collect. See Coil.] 1. To gather together; to collect. [Obs.]
Spenser.
2. (Naut.) To coil together.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Ac·coÏlade¶ (#; 277), n. [F. accolade, It. accolata, fr. accollare to embrace; L. ad + collum neck.] 1. A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.
2. (Mus.) A brace used to join two or more staves.
AcÏcomÏbiÏna¶tion (#), n. [L. ad + E. combination.] A combining together. [R.]
AcÏcom¶moÏdaÏble (#), a. [Cf. F. accommodable.] That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree. [R.]
I. Watts.
AcÏcom¶moÏdableÏness, n. The quality or condition of being accommodable. [R.]
Todd.
AcÏcom¶moÏdate (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accommodated (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Accommodating (#).] [L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare; ad + commodare to make fit, help; conÏ + modus measure, proportion. See Mode.] 1. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. ½They accomodate their counsels to his inclination.¸
Addison.
2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
4. To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
Syn. Ð To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.
AcÏcom¶moÏdate, v. i. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [R.]
Boyle.
AcÏcom¶moÏdate (#), a. [L. accommodatus, p.p. of accommodare.] Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. [Archaic]
Tillotson.
AcÏcom¶moÏdateÏly, adv. Suitably; fitly. [R.]
AcÏcom¶moÏdateÏness, n. Fitness. [R.]
AcÏcom¶moÏda·ting (#), a. Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.
AcÏcom·moÏda¶tion (#), n. [L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.]
1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; Ð followed by to. ½The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.¸
Sir M. Hale.
2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; Ð often in the plural; as, the accomodations Ð that is, lodgings and food Ð at an inn.
A volume of Shakespeare in each pocket, a small bundle with a change of linen slung across his shoulders, an oaken cudgel in his hand, complete our pedestrian's accommodations.
Sir W. Scott.
4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. ½To come to terms of accommodation.¸
Macaulay.
5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations.
Paley.
6. (Com.) (a) A loan of money. (b) An accommodation bill or note.
Accommodation bill, or note (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. Ð Accommodation coach, or train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. Ð Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.
AcÏcom¶moÏda·tor (#), n. He who, or that which, accommodates.
Warburton.
AcÏcom¶paÏnaÏble (#), a. Sociable. [Obs.]
Sir P. Sidney.
AcÏcom¶paÏniÏer (#), n. He who, or that which, accompanies.
Lamb.
AcÏcom¶paÏniÏment (#), n. [F. accompagnement.] That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically: (Mus.) A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass.
P. Cyc.
AcÏcom¶paÏnist (#), n. The performer in music who takes the accompanying part.
Busby.
AcÏcom¶paÏny (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accompanied (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Accompanying (#)] [OF. aacompaignier, F. accompagner, to associate with, fr. OF. compaign, compain, companion. See Company.] 1. To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; Ð followed by with or by;as, he accompanied his speech with a bow.
The Persian dames, …
In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march.
Glover.
The are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Sir P. Sidney.
He was accompanied by two carts filled wounded rebels.
Macaulay.
2. To cohabit with. [Obs.]
Sir T. Herbert.
Syn. Ð To attend; escort; go with. Ð To Accompany, Attend, Escort. We accompany those with whom we go as companions. The word imports an equality of station. We attend those whom we wait upon or follow. The word conveys an idea of subornation. We escort those whom we attend with a view to guard and protect. A gentleman accompanies a friend to some public place; he attends or escorts a lady.
AcÏcom¶paÏny, v. i. 1. To associate in a company; to keep company. [Obs.]
Bacon.
Men say that they will drive away one another, … and not accompany together.
Holland.
2. To cohabit (with). [Obs.]
Milton.
3. (Mus.) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
AcÏcom¶pleÏtive (#), a. [L. ad + complere, completum, to fill up.] Tending to accomplish. [R.]
AcÏcom¶plice (#), n. [AcÏ (perh. for the article a or for L. ad) + E. complice. See Complice.]
1. A cooperator. [R.]
Success unto our valiant general,
And happiness to his accomplices!
Shak.
2. (Law) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory. ½And thou, the cursed accomplice of his treason.¸ Johnson. It is followed by with or of before a person and by in (or sometimes of) before the crime; as, A was an accomplice with B in the murder of C. Dryden uses it with to before a thing. ½Suspected for accomplice to the fire.¸
Dryden.
Syn. Ð Abettor; accessory; assistant; associate; confederate; coadjutor; ally; promoter. See Abettor.
AcÏcom¶pliceÏship (#), n. The state of being an accomplice. [R.]
Sir H. Taylor.
Ac·comÏplic¶iÏty (#), n. The act or state of being an accomplice. [R.]
AcÏcom¶plish (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accomplished (#), p. pr. & vb. n. Accomplishing.] [OE. acomplissen, OF. accomplir, F. accomplir; L. ad + complere to fill up, complete. See Complete, Finish.] 1. To complete, as time or distance.
That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
Dan. ix. 2.
He had accomplished half a league or more.
Prescott.
2. To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.
This that is written must yet be accomplished in me.
Luke xxii. 37.
3. To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
The armorers accomplishing the knights.
Shak.
It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it.
Wilkins.
These qualities … go to accomplish a perfect woman.
Cowden Clarke.
4. To gain; to obtain. [Obs.]
Shak.
Syn. Ð To do; perform; fulfill; realize; effect; effectuate; complete; consummate; execute; achieve; perfect; equip; furnish. Ð To Accomplish, Effect, Execute, Achieve, Perform. These words agree in the general idea of carrying out to some end proposed. To accomplish (to fill up to the measure of the intention) generally implies perseverance and skill; as, to accomplish a plan proposed by one's self, an object, a design, an undertaking. ½Thou shalt accomplish my desire.¸
1 Kings v. 9.
He … expressed his desire to see a union accomplished between England and Scotland.
Macaulay.
To effect (to work out) is much like accomplish. It usually implies some degree of difficulty contended with; as, he effected or accomplished what he intended, his purpose, but little. ½What he decreed, he effected.¸
Milton.
To work in close design by fraud or guile
What force effected not.
Milton.
To execute (to follow out to the end, to carry out, or into effect) implies a set mode of operation; as, to execute the laws or the orders of another; to execute a work, a purpose, design, plan, project. To perform is much like to do, though less generally applied. It conveys a notion of protracted and methodical effort; as, to perform a mission, a part, a task, a work. ½Thou canst best perform that office.¸
Milton.
The Saints, like stars, around his seat
Perform their courses still.
Keble.
To achieve (to come to the end or arrive at one's purpose) usually implies some enterprise or undertaking of importance, difficulty, and excellence.
AcÏcom¶plishÏaÏble (#), a. Capable of being accomplished; practicable.
Carlyle.
AcÏcom¶plished (#), a. 1. Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact.
2. Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; Ð commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain.
They … show themselves accomplished bees.
Holland.
Daughter of God and man, accomplished Eve.
Milton.
AcÏcom¶plishÏer (#), n. One who accomplishes.
AcÏcom¶plishÏment (#), n. [F. accomplissement, fr. accomplir.] 1. The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.
2. That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training. ½My new accomplishment of dancing.¸ Churchill. ½Accomplishments befitting a station.¸ Thackeray.
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place,
And wisdom falls before exterior grace.
Cowper.
AcÏcompt¶ (#; formerly #), n. See Account.
µ Accompt, accomptant, etc., are archaic forms.
AcÏcomp¶aÏble (#), a. See Accountable.
AcÏcompt¶ant (#), n. See Accountant.
AcÏcord¶ (#), n. [OE. acord, accord, OF. acort, acorde, F. accord, fr. OF. acorder, F. accorder. See Accord, v. t.] 1. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
A mediator of an accord and peace between them.
Bacon.
These all continued with one accord in prayer.
Acts i. 14.
2. Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.
Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
Sir J. Davies.
3. Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
4. Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; Ð preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.
Lev. xxv. 5.
Of his own accord he went unto you.
2 Cor. vii. 17.
5. (Law) 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 one accord into the theater.
Acts xix. 29.
AcÏcord¶, 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; Ð followed by to. [R.]
Her hands accorded the lute's music to the voice.
Sidney.
2. To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.
When they were accorded from the fray.
Spenser.
All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critica learning.
South.
3. To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise. ½According his desire.¸
Spenser.
AcÏcord¶, v. i. 1. To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; Ð followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.
My heart accordeth with my tongue.
Shak.
Thy actions to thy words accord.
Milton.
2. To agree in pitch and tone.
AcÏcord¶aÏble (#), a. [OF. acordable, F. accordable.] 1. Agreeing. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
2. Reconcilable; in accordance.
AcÏcord¶ance (#), n. [OF. acordance.] Agreement; harmony; conformity. ½In strict accordance with the law.¸
Macaulay.
Syn. Ð Harmony; unison; coincidence.
AcÏcord¶anÏcy (#), n. Accordance. [R.]
Paley.
AcÏcord¶ant (#), a. [OF. acordant, F. accordant.] Agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; Ð followed by with or to.
Strictly accordant with true morality.
Darwin.
And now his voice accordant to the string.
Coldsmith.
AcÏcord¶antÏly, adv. In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; Ð followed by with or to.
AcÏcord¶er (#), n. One who accords, assents, or concedes. [R.]
AcÏcord¶ing, p. a. Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. ½This according voice of national wisdom.¸ Burke. ½Mind and soul according well.¸
Tennyson.
According to, agreeably to; in accordance or conformity with; consistent with.
According to him, every person was to be bought.
Macaulay.
Our zeal should be according to knowledge.
Sprat.
µ 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.
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.
Is all things well,
According as I gave directions?
Shak.
The land which the Lord will give you according as he hath promised.
Ex. xii. 25.
p. 13
AcÏcord¶ing (#), adv. Accordingly; correspondingly. [Obs.]
Shak.
AcÏcord¶ingÏly, adv. 1. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable.
Behold, and so proceed accordingly.
Shak.
2. In natural sequence; consequently; so.
Syn. Ð Consequently; therefore; wherefore; hence; so. Ð Accordingly, Consequently, indicate a connection between two things, the latter of which is done on account of the former. Accordingly marks the connection as one of simple accordance or congruity, leading naturally to the result which followed; as, he was absent when I called, and I accordingly left my card; our preparations were all finished, and we accordingly set sail. Consequently all finished, and we accordingly set sail. Consequently marks a closer connection, that of logical or causal sequence; as, the papers were not ready, and consequently could not be signed.
AcÏcor¶diÏon (#), n. [See Accord.] (Mus.) A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.
AcÏcor¶diÏonÏist, n. A player on the accordion.
AcÏcord¶ment (#), n. [OF. acordement. See Accord, v.] Agreement; reconcilement. [Obs.]
Gower.
AcÏcor¶poÏrate (#), v. t. [L. accorporare; ad + corpus, corporis, body.] To unite; to attach; to incorporate. [Obs.]
Milton.
AcÏcost¶ (#; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accosted; p. pr. & vb. n. Accosting.] [F. accoster, LL. accostare to bring side by side; L. ad + costa rib, side. See Coast, and cf. Accoast.] 1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] ½So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea.¸
Fuller.
2. To approach; to make up to. [Archaic]
Shak.
3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. ½Him, Satan thus accosts.¸
Milton.
AcÏcost¶, v. i. To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] ½The shores which to the sea accost.¸
Spenser.
AcÏcost¶, n. Address; greeting. [R.]
J. Morley.
AcÏcost¶aÏble (#), a. [Cf. F. accostable.] Approachable; affable. [R.]
Hawthorne.
AcÏcost¶ed, a. (Her.) Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.
Ø AcÏcouche¶ment (#; 277), n. [F., fr. accoucher to be delivered of a child, to aid in delivery, OF. acouchier orig. to lay down, put to bed, go to bed; L. ad + collocare to lay, put, place. See Collate.] Delivery in childbed
Ø AcÏcouÏcheur¶ (#), n. [F., fr. accoucher. See Accouchement.] A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.
Ø AcÏcouÏcheuse¶ (#), n. [F.., fem. of accoucher.] A midwife. [Recent]
Dunglison.
AcÏcount¶ (#), n. [OE. acount, account, accompt, OF. acont, fr. aconter. See Account, v. t., Count, n., 1.] 1. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
A beggarly account of empty boxes.
Shak.
2. A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
3. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.
4. A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle. ½A laudable account of the city of London.¸
Howell.
5. A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
Give an account of thy stewardship.
Luke xvi. 2.
6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. ½To stand high in your account.¸
Shak.
7. Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit. ½Men of account.¸ Pope. ½To turn to account.¸ Shak.
Account current, a running or continued account between two or more parties, or a statement of the particulars of such an account. Ð In account with, in a relation requiring an account to be kept. Ð On account of, for the sake of; by reason of; because of. Ð On one's own account, for one's own interest or behalf. Ð To make account, to have an opinion or expectation; to reckon. [Obs.]
s other part … makes account to find no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it.
Milton.
Ð To make account of, to hold in estimation; to esteem; as, he makes small account of beauty. Ð To take account of, or to take into account, to take into consideration; to notice. ½Of their doings, God takes no account.¸ Milton. Ð A writ of account (Law), a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; Ð called also an action of account.
Cowell.
Syn. Ð Narrative; narration; relation; recital; description; explanation; rehearsal. Ð Account, Narrative, Narration, Recital. These words are applied to different modes of rehearsing a series of events. Account turns attention not so much to the speaker as to the fact related, and more properly applies to the report of some single event, or a group of incidents taken as whole; as, an account of a battle, of a shipwreck, etc. A narrative is a continuous story of connected incidents, such as one friend might tell to another; as, a narrative of the events of a siege, a narrative of one's life, etc. Narration is usually the same as narrative, but is sometimes used to describe the mode of relating events; as, his powers of narration are uncommonly great. Recital denotes a series of events drawn out into minute particulars, usually expressing something which peculiarly interests the feelings of the speaker; as, the recital of one's wrongs, disappointments, sufferings, etc.
AcÏcount¶ (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accounted; p. pr. & vb. n. Accounting.] [OE. acounten, accompten, OF. aconter; … (L. ad) + conter to tell, compter to count, L. computare. See Count, v. t.]
1. To reckon; to compute; to count. [Obs.]
The motion of … the sun whereby years are accounted.
Sir T. Browne.
2. To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; Ð with to. [R.]
Clarendon.
3. To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
Accounting that God was able to raise him up.
Heb. xi. 19.
4. To recount; to relate. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
AcÏcount¶, v. i. 1. To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
2. To render an account; to answer in judgment; Ð with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.
3. To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; Ð with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.
To account of, to esteem; to prize; to value. Now used only in the passive. ½I account of her beauty.¸
Shak.
Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century.
Canon Robinson.
AcÏcount¶aÏbil·aÏbil¶iÏty (#), n. The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness. ½The awful idea of accountability.¸
R. Hall.
AcÏcount¶aÏble (#), a. 1. Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.
2. Capable of being accounted for; explicable. [R.]
True religion … intelligible, rational, and accountable, Ð not a burden but a privilege.
B. Whichcote.
Syn. Ð Amenable; responsible; liable; answerable.
AcÏcount¶aÏble ness, n. The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.
AcÏcount¶aÏbly, adv. In an accountable manner.
AcÏcount¶anÏcy (#), n. The art or employment of an accountant.
AcÏcount¶ant (#), n. [Cf. F. accomptant, OF. acontant, p. pr.] 1. One who renders account; one accountable.
2. A reckoner.
3. One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
Accountatn general, the head or superintending accountant in certain public offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England.
AcÏcount¶ant, a. Accountable. [Obs.]
Shak.
AcÏcount¶antÏship (#), n. [Accountant + Ïship.] The office or employment of an accountant.
AcÏcount¶ book· (#). A book in which accounts are kept.
Swift.
AcÏco¶ple (#), v. t. [OF. acopler, F. accoupler. See Couple.] To join; to couple. [R.]
The Englishmen accoupled themselves with the Frenchmen.
Hall.
AcÏcou¶pleÏment (#), n. [Cf. F. accouplement.] 1. The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union. [R.]
Caxton.
2. That which couples, as a tie or brace. [R.]
AcÏcour¶age (#), v. t. [OF. acoragier; … (L. ad) + corage. See Courage.] To encourage. [Obs.]
AcÏcourt¶ (#), v. t. [AcÏ, for L. ad. See Court.] To treat courteously; to court. [Obs.]
Spenser.
AcÏcou¶ter, AcÏcou¶tre } (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accoutered or Accoutred (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Accoutering or Accoutring.] [F. accouter, OF. accoutrer, accoustrer; … (L. ad) + perh. LL. custor, for custos guardian, sacristan (cf. Custody), or perh. akin to E. guilt.] To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array.
Bot accoutered like young men.
Shak.
For this, in rags accoutered are they seen.
Dryden.
Accoutered with his burden and his staff.
Wordsworth.
AcÏcou¶terÏments, AcÏcou¶treÏments } (#), n. pl. [F. accoutrement, earlier also accoustrement, earlier also accoustrement. See Accouter.] Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers.
How gay with all the accouterments of war!
A. Philips.
AcÏcoy¶ (#), v. t. [OF. acoyer; acÏ, for L. ad. See Coy.] 1. To render quiet; to soothe. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
2. To subdue; to tame; to daunt. [Obs.]
Then is your careless courage accoyed.
Spenser.
AcÏcred¶it (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accredited; p. pr. & vb. n. Accrediting.] [F. accr‚diter; … (L. ad) + cr‚dit credit. See Credit.] 1. To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
His censure will … accredit his praises.
Cowper.
These reasons … which accredit and fortify mine opinion.
Shelton.
2. To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
Beton … was accredited to the Court of France.
Froude.
3. To believe; to credit; to put trust in.
The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century.
Sir G. C. Lewis.
He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft.
Southey.
4. To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one.
To accredit (one) with (something), to attribute something to him; as, Mr. Clay was accredited with these views; they accredit him with a wise saying.
AcÏcred·iÏta¶tion (#), n. The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation.
Ac·creÏmenÏti¶tial (#), a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to accremention.
Ac·creÏmenÏti¶tion (#), n. [See Accresce, Increment.] (Physiol.) The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.
AcÏcresce¶ (#), v. i. [L. accrescere. See Accrue.] 1. To accrue. [R.]
2. To increase; to grow. [Obs.]
Gillespie.
AcÏcres¶cence (#), n. [LL. accrescentia.] Continuous growth; an accretion. [R.]
The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy.
Coleridge.
AcÏcres¶cent (#), a. [L. accrescens, Ïentis, p. pr. of accrescere; ad + crescere to grow. See Crescent.]
1. Growing; increasing.
Shuckford.
2. (Bot.) Growing larger after flowering.
Gray.
AcÏcrete¶ (#), v. i. [From L. accretus, p. p. of accrescere to increase.] 1. To grow together.
2. To adhere; to grow (to); to be added; Ð with to.
AcÏcrete¶, v. t. To make adhere; to add.
Earle.
AcÏcrete¶, a. 1. Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.
2. (Bot.) Grown together.
Gray.
AcÏcre¶tion (#), n. [L. accretio, fr. accrescere to increase. Cf. Crescent, Increase, Accrue.]
1. The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
Arbuthnot.
2. The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.
A mineral … augments not by grown, but by accretion.
Owen.
To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion.
Sir G. C. Lewis.
3. Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.
4. A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes.
Dana.
5. (Law) (a) The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark. (b) Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a coÐlegatee of the same thing, to take his share.
Wharton. Kent.
AcÏcre¶tive (#), a. Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth.
Glanvill.
AcÏcrim¶iÏnate (#), v. t. [L. acÏ (for ad to) + criminari.] To accuse of a crime. [Obs.] Ð AcÏcrim·iÏna¶tion (#), n. [Obs.]
AcÏcroach¶ (#), v. t. [OE. acrochen, accrochen, to obtain, OF. acrochier, F. accrocher; … (L. ad) + croc hook (E. crook).] 1. To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook. [Obs.]
2. To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives.
They had attempted to accroach to themselves royal power.
Stubbs.
AcÏcroach¶ment (#), n. [Cf. F. accrochement.] An encroachment; usurpation. [Obs.]
Bailey.
AcÏcru¶al (#), n. Accrument. [R.]
AcÏcrue¶ (#), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Accrued (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Accruing.] [See Accrue, n., and cf. Accresce, Accrete.] 1. To increase; to augment.
And though power failed, her courage did accrue.
Spenser.
2. To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent. ½Interest accrues to principal.¸
Abbott.
The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press.
Junius.
AcÏcrue¶, n. [F. accr–, OF. acr??, p. p. of accro?tre, OF. acroistre to increase; L. ad + crescere to increase. Cf. Accretion, Crew. See Crescent.] Something that accrues; advantage accruing. [Obs.]
AcÏcru¶er (#), n. (Law) The act of accruing; accretion; as, title by accruer.
AcÏcru¶ment (#), n. The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase.
Jer. Taylor.
Ac·cuÏba¶tion (#), n. [L. accubatio, for accubatio, fr. accubare to recline; ad + cubare to lie down. See Accumb.] The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.
AcÏcumb¶ (#), v. i. [L. accumbere; ad + cumbere (only in compounds) to lie down.] To recline, as at table. [Obs.]
Bailey.
AcÏcum¶benÏcy (#), n. The state of being accumbent or reclining. [R.]
AcÏcum¶bent (#), a. 1. Leaning or reclining, as the ancient? did at their meals.
The Roman.. accumbent posture in eating.
Arbuthnot.
2. (Bot.) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf.
Gray.
Accumbent cotyledons have their edges placed against the caulicle.
Eaton.
AcÏcum¶bent, n. One who reclines at table.
AcÏcum¶ber (#), v. t. To encumber. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
AcÏcu¶muÏlate (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accumulated (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Accumulating.] [L. accumulatus, p. p. of accumulare; ad + cumulare to heap. See Cumulate.] To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
Syn. Ð To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.
p. 14
AcÏcu¶muÏlate (#), v. i. To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
Goldsmith.
AcÏcu¶muÏlate (#), a. [L. accumulatus, p. p. of accumulare.] Collected; accumulated.
Bacon.
AcÏcu·muÏla¶tion (#), n. [L. accumulatio; cf. F. accumulation.] 1. The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.
2. (Law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
Accumulation of energy or power, the storing of energy by means of weights lifted or masses put in motion; electricity stored. Ð An accumulation of degrees (Eng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the rules.
AcÏcu¶muÏlaÏtive (#), a. Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional. Ð AcÏcu¶muÏlaÏtiveÏly, adv. Ð AcÏcu¶muÏlaÏtiveÏness, n.
AcÏcu¶muÏla·tor (#), n. [L.] 1. One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses.
2. (Mech.) An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.
3. A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deepÐsea dredging.
Ac¶cuÏraÏcy (#; 277), n. [See Accurate.] The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy.
The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy.
Reid.
The accuracy with which the piston fits the sides.
Lardner.
Ac¶cuÏrate (#), a. [L. accuratus, p. p. and a., fr. accurare to take care of; ad + curare to take care, cura care. See Cure.] 1. In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.
2. Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. [Obs.]
Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below.
Bacon.
Syn. Ð Correct; exact; just; nice; particular. Ð Accurate, Correct, Exact, Precise. We speak of a thing as correct with reference to some rule or standard of comparison; as, a correct account, a correct likeness, a man of correct deportment. We speak of a thing as accurate with reference to the care bestowed upon its execution, and the increased correctness to be expected therefrom; as, an accurate statement, an accurate detail of particulars. We speak of a thing as exact with reference to that perfected state of a thing in which there is no defect and no redundance; as, an exact coincidence, the exact truth, an exact likeness. We speak of a thing as precise when we think of it as strictly conformed to some rule or model, as if cut down thereto; as a precise conformity instructions; precisely right; he was very precise in giving his directions.
Ac¶cuÏrateÏly, adv. In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.
Ac¶cuÏrateÏness, n. The state or quality of being accurate ; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
AcÏcurse¶ (#), v. t. [OE. acursien, acorsien; pref. a + cursien to curse. See Curse.] To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.
And the city shall be accursed.
Josh. vi. 17.
Thro' you, my life will be accurst.
Tennyson.
AcÏcursed¶ (#), AcÏcurst¶ (#), } p. p. & a. Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; Ð as, an accursed deed. Shak. Ð AcÏcurs¶edÏly, adv. Ð AcÏcurs¶edÏness, n.
AcÏcus¶aÏble (#), a. [L. accusabilis: cf. F. accusable.] Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; Ð with of.
AcÏcus¶al (#), n. Accusation. [R.]
Byron.
AcÏcus¶ant (#), n. [L. accusans, p. pr. of accusare: cf. F. accusant.] An accuser.
Bp. Hall.
Ac·cuÏsa¶tion (#), n. [OF. acusation, F. accusation, L. accusatio, fr. accusare. See Accuse.]
1. The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.
We come not by the way of accusation
To taint that honor every good tongue blesses.
Shak.
2. That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge.
[They] set up over his head his accusation.
Matt. xxvii. 37.
Syn. Ð Impeachment; crimination; censure; charge.
AcÏcu·saÏti¶val (#), a. Pertaining to the accusative case. AcÏcu¶saÏtive (#), a. [F. accusatif, L. accusativus (in sense 2), fr. accusare. See Accuse.] 1. Producing accusations; accusatory. ½This hath been a very accusative age.¸ Sir E. Dering. 2. (Gram.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English. AcÏcu¶saÏtive, n. (Gram.) The accusative case.
AxÏcu¶saÏtiveÏly, adv. 1. In an accusative manner. 2. In relation to the accusative case in grammar.
AcÏcu·saÏto¶riÏal (#), a. Accusatory.
AcÏcu·saÏto¶riÏalÏly, adv. By way accusation.
AcÏcu¶saÏtoÏry (#), a. [L. accusatorius, fr. accusare.] Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel.
Grote.
AcÏcuse¶ (#), n. Accusation. [Obs.]
Shak.
AcÏcuse¶, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accused (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Accusing.] [OF. acuser, F. accuser, L. accusare, to call to account, accuse; ad + causa cause, lawsuit. Cf. Cause.] 1. To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense; (Law) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; Ð with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.
Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
Acts xxiv. 13.
We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms.
Macaulay.
2. To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
Rom. ii. 15.
3. To betray; to show. [L.]
Sir P. Sidney.
Syn. Ð To charge; blame; censure; reproach; criminate; indict; impeach; arraign. Ð To Accuse, Charge, Impeach, Arraign. These words agree in bringing home to a person the imputation of wrongdoing. To accuse is a somewhat formal act, and is applied usually (though not exclusively) to crimes; as, to accuse of treason. Charge is the most generic. It may refer to a crime, a dereliction of duty, a fault, etc.; more commonly it refers to moral delinquencies; as, to charge with dishonesty or falsehood. To arraign is to bring (a person) before a tribunal for trial; as, to arraign one before a court or at the bar public opinion. To impeach is officially to charge with misbehavior in office; as, to impeach a minister of high crimes. Both impeach and arraign convey the idea of peculiar dignity or impressiveness.
AcÏcused¶ (#), a. Charged with offense; as, an accused person.
Commonly used substantively; as, the accused, one charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.
AcÏcuse¶ment (#), n. [OF. acusement. See Accuse.] Accusation. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
AcÏcus¶er (#), n. [OE. acuser, accusour; cf. OF. acuseor, fr. L. accusator, fr. accusare.] One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
AcÏcus¶ingÏly, adv. In an accusing manner.
AcÏcus¶tom (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accustomed (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Accustoming.] [OF. acostumer, acustumer, F. accoutumer; ? (L. ad) + OF. costume, F. coutume, custom. See Custom.] To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; Ð with to.
I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater.
Adventurer.
Syn. Ð To habituate; inure; exercise; train.
AcÏcus¶tom, v. i. 1. To be wont. [Obs.]
Carew.
2. To cohabit. [Obs.]
We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries.
Milton.
AcÏcus¶tom, n. Custom. [Obs.]
Milton.
AcÏcus¶tomÏaÏble (#), a. Habitual; customary; wonted. ½Accustomable goodness.¸
Latimer.
AcÏcus¶tomÏaÏbly, adv. According to custom; ordinarily; customarily.
Latimer.
AcÏcus¶tomÏance (#), n. [OF. accoustumance, F. accoutumance.] Custom; habitual use. [Obs.]
Boyle.
AcÏcust¶tomÏaÏriÏly (#), adv. Customarily. [Obs.]
AcÏcus¶tomÏaÏry (#), a. Usual; customary. [Archaic]
Featley.
AcÏcus¶tomed (#), a. 1. Familiar through use; usual; customary. ½An accustomed action.¸
Shak.
2. Frequented by customers. [Obs.] ½A well accustomed shop.¸
Smollett.
AcÏcus¶tomedÏness, n. Habituation.
Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart.
Bp. Pearce.
Ace (#), n.; pl. Aces (#). [OE. as, F. as, fr. L. as, assis, unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage. Cf. As.]
1. A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.
2. Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
I 'll not wag an ace further.
Dryden.
To bate an ace, to make the least abatement. [Obs.] Ð Within an ace of, very near; on the point of.
W. Irving.
AÏcel¶daÏma (#), n. [Gr. ?, fr. Syr. ?k?l dam? the field of blood.] The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed.
The system of warfare … which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama.
De Quincey.
AÏcen¶tric (#), a. [Gr. ? priv. + ? a point, a center.] Not centered; without a center.
Ac¶eÏphal (#), n. [Gr. ?; ? priv. + ? head: cf. F. ac‚phale, LL. acephalus.] (Zo”l.) One of the Acephala.
Ø AÏceph¶aÏla (#), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, adj. neut. pl., headless. See Acephal.] (Zo”l.) That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; Ð so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca.
AÏceph¶aÏlan (#), n. Same as Acephal.
AÏceph¶aÏlan, a. (Zo”l.) Belonging to the Acephala.
Ø AÏceph¶aÏli (#), n. pl. [LL., pl. of acephalus. See Acephal.] 1. A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) (a) A Christian sect without a leader. (b) Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control. 3. A class of levelers in the time of K. Henry I.
AÏceph¶aÏlist (#), n. One who acknowledges no head or superior.
Dr. Gauden.
AÏceph¶aÏloÏcyst (#), n. [Gr. ? without a head + ? bladder.] (Zo”l.) A larval entozo”n in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hy datid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; Ð so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.
AÏceph·aÏloÏcys¶tic (#), a. Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts.
AÏceph¶aÏlous (#), a. [See Acephal.] 1. Headless. 2. (Zo”l.) Without a distinct head; Ð a term applied to bivalve mollusks. 3. (Bot.) Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries. 4. Without a leader or chief. 5. Wanting the beginning. A false or acephalous structure of sentence. De Quincey.
6. (Pros.) Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry. Brande. Ac¶erÏate (#), n. [See Aceric.] (Chem.) A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.
Ac¶erÏate, a. Acerose; needleÏshaped.
AÏcerb¶ (#), a. [L. acerbus, fr. acer sharp: cf. F. acerbe. See Acrid.] Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.
AÏcerb¶ate (#), v. t. [L. acerbatus, p. p. of acerbare, fr. acerbus.] To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.
AÏcerb¶ic (#), a. Sour or severe.
AÏcerb¶iÏtude (#), n. [L. acerbitudo, fr. acerbus.] Sourness and harshness. [Obs.]
Bailey.
AÏcerb¶iÏty (#), n. [F. acerbit‚, L. acerbitas, fr. acerbus. See Acerb.] 1. Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
2. Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain.
Barrow.
AÏcer¶ic (#), a. [L. acer maple.] Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid.
Ure.
Ac¶erÏose· (#), a. [(a) L. acerosus chaffy, fr. acus, gen. aceris, chaff; (b) as if fr. L. acus needle: cf. F. ac‚reux.] (Bot.) (a) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy. (b) NeedleÐshaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.
Ac¶erÏous (#), a. Same as Acerose.
Ac¶erÏous, a. [Gr. <a> priv. + <keras> a horn.] (Zo”l.) (a) Destitute of tentacles, as certain mollusks. (b) Without antenn‘, as some insects.
AÏcer¶val (#), a. [L. acervalis, fr. acervus heap.] Pertaining to a heap. [Obs.]
AÏcer¶vate (#), v. t. [L. acervatus, p. p. of acervare to heap up, fr. acervus heap.] To heap up. [Obs.]
AÏcer¶vate (#), a. Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.
Ac·erÏva¶tion (#), n. [L. acervatio.] A heaping up; accumulation. [R.]
Johnson.
AÏcer¶vaÏtive (#), a. Heaped up; tending to heap up.
AÏcer¶vose (#), a. Full of heaps. [R.]
Bailey.
AÏcer¶vuÏline (#), a. Resembling little heaps.
AÏces¶cence (#), AÏces¶cenÏcy (#), } n. [Cf. F. acescence. See Acescent.] The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness.
Johnson.
AÏces¶cent (#), a. [L. acescens, Ïentis, p. pr. of acescere to turn sour; inchoative of acere to be sour: cf. F. acescent. See Acid.] Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.
Faraday.
AÏces¶cent, n. A substance liable to become sour.
Ac¶eÏtaÏble (#), n. An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint. [Obs.]
Holland.
Ac·eÏtab¶uÏlar (#), a. CupÏshaped; saucerÐshaped; acetabuliform.
Ø Ac·eÏtab·uÏlif¶eÏra (#), n. pl. [NL. See Acetabuliferous.] (Zo”l.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cupÐshaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.
Ac·eÏtab·uÏlif¶erÏous (#), a. [L. acetablum a little cup + Ïferous.] Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.
Ac·eÏtab¶uÏliÏform (#), a. [L. acetabulum + Ïform.] (Bot.) Shaped like a shallow; saucerÐshaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx.
Gray.
Ø Ac·eÏtab¶uÏlum (#), n. [L., a little saucer for vinegar, fr. acetum vinegar, fr. acere to be sour.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.) A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.
2. (Anat.) (a) The bony cup which receives the head of the thigh bone. (b) The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body. (c) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals. (d) The large posterior sucker of the leeches. (e) One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
Ac¶eÏtal (#), n. [Aceic + alcohol.] (Chem.) A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.
Ac·etÏal¶deÏhyde (#), n. Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde.
Ac·etÏam¶ide (#), n. [Acetyl + amide.] (Chem.) A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.
Ac·etÏan¶iÏlide (#), n. [Acetyl + anilide.] (Med.) A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; Ð called also antifebrine.
Ac·eÏta¶riÏous (#), a. [L. acetaria, n. pl., salad, fr. acetum vinegar, fr. acere to be sour.] Used in salads; as, acetarious plants.
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Ac¶eÏtaÏry (#), n. [L. acetaria salad plants.] An acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear.
Grew.
Ac¶eÏtate (#), n. [L. acetum vinegar, fr. acere to be sour.] (Chem.) A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.
Ac¶eÏta·ted (#), a. Combined with acetic acid.
AÏce¶tic (#; 277), a. [L. acetum vinegar, fr. acere to be sour.] (Chem.) (a) Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation. (b) Pertaining to, containing, or derived from, acetyl, as acetic ether, acetic acid. The latter is the acid to which the sour taste of vinegar is due.
AÏcet·iÏfiÏca¶tion (#), n. The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.
AÏcet¶iÏfi·er (#), n. An apparatus for hastening acetification.
Knight.
AÏcet¶iÏfy (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Acetified (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Acetifying (#).] [L. acetum vinegar + Ïfly.] To convert into acid or vinegar.
AÏcet¶iÏfy, v. i. To turn acid.
Encyc. Dom. Econ.
Ac·eÏtim¶eÏter (#), n. [L. acetum vinegar + Ïmeter: cf. F. ac‚timŠtre.] An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid.
Ac·eÏtim¶eÏtry (#), n. The act or method of ascertaining the strength of vinegar, or the proportion of acetic acid contained in it.
Ure.
Ac¶eÏtin (#), n. (Chem.) A combination of acetic acid with glycerin.
Brande & C.
Ac¶eÏtize (#), v. i. To acetify. [R.]
Ac·eÏtom¶eÏter (#), n. Same as Acetimeter.
Brande & C.
Ac¶eÏtone (#), n. [See Acetic.] (Chem.) A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, Ð obtained by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime. µ The term in also applied to a number of bodies of similar constitution, more frequently called ketones. See Ketone.
Ac·eÏton¶ic (#), a. Of or pertaining to acetone; as, acetonic bodies.
Ac¶eÏtose (#), a. Sour like vinegar; acetous.
Ac·eÏtos¶iÏty (#), n. [LL. acetositas. See Acetous.] The quality of being acetous; sourness.
AÏce¶tous (#; 277), a. [L. acetum vinegar, fr. acere to be sour.] 1. Having a sour taste; sour; acid. ½An acetous spirit.¸ Boyle. ½A liquid of an acetous kind.¸
Bp. Lowth.
2. Causing, or connected with, acetification; as, acetous fermentation.
Acetous acid, a name formerly given to vinegar<—which contains acetic acid—>.
Ac¶eÏtyl (#), n. [L. acetum vinegar + Gr. ? substance. See Ïyl.] (Chem.) A complex, hypothetical radical, composed of two parts of carbon to three of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Its hydroxide is acetic acid.
AÏcet¶yÏlene (#), n. (Chem.) A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.
Watts.
Ach, Ache } (#), n. [F. ache, L. apium parsley.] A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley. [Obs.]
Holland.
AÏch‘¶an (#), AÏcha¶ian (#) } a. [L. Achaeus, Achaius; Gr. ?.] Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian. Ð n. A native of Achaia; a Greek.
Ø AÏchar¶neÏment (#), n. [F.] Savage fierceness; ferocity.
Ach¶ate (#), n. An agate. [Obs.] Evelyn. AÏchate¶ (#), n. [F. achat purchase. See Cates.] 1. Purchase; bargaining. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. pl. Provisions. Same as Cates. [Obs.] Spenser.
Ø Ach·aÏti¶na (#), n. [NL., from Gr. ? agate.] (Zo”l.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa.
AÏchaÏtour¶ (#), n. [See Cater.] Purveyor; acater. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Ache (#), n. [OE. ache, AS. ‘ce, ece, fr. acan to ache. See Ache, v. i.] Continued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. ½Such an ache in my bones.½
Shak.
µ Often used in composition, as, a headache, an earache, a toothache.
Ache (#), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ached (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Aching (#).] [OE. aken, AS. acan, both strong verbs, AS. acan, imp. ?c, p. p. acen, to ache; perh. orig. to drive, and akin to agent.] To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed. ½My old bones ache.¸
Shak.
The sins that in your conscience ache.
Keble.
AÏche¶an (#), a & n. See Ach‘an, Achaian.
AÏchene¶ (#), AÏche¶niÏum (#) } n. [Gr. ? priv. + ? to gape.] (Bot.) A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; Ð called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [Written also akene and ach‘nium.]
AÏche¶niÏal (#), a. Pertaining to an achene.
Ach¶eÏron (#), n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Myth.) A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf.
Shak.
Ach·eÏron¶tic (#), a. Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.
AÏchiev¶aÏble (#), a. Capable of being achieved.
Barrow.
AÏchiev¶ance (#), n. [Cf. OF. achevance.] Achievement. [Obs.]
Sir T. Elyot.
AÏchieve¶ (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Achieved (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Achieving (#).] [OE. acheven, OF. achever, achiever, F. achever, to finish; ? (L. ad) + OF. chief, F. chef, end, head, fr. L. caput head. See Chief.] 1. To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; Ð as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise.
Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it.
I. Taylor.
2. To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness.
Shak.
Thou hast achieved our liberty.
Milton.
[Obs., with a material thing as the aim.]
Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved.
Prior.
He hath achieved a maid
That paragons description.
Shak.
3. To finish; to kill. [Obs.]
Shak.
Syn. Ð To accomplish; effect; fulfill; complete; execute; perform; realize; obtain. See Accomplish.
