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Academy

ACAD'EMY, noun [Latin academia.] Originally, it is said, a garden, grove, or villa, near Athens, where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences.

1. A school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a university or college, and a common school; also a school for teaching a particular art, or particular sciences, as a military academy

2. A house in which the students or members of an academy meet; a place of education.

3. A society of men united for the promotion of arts and sciences in general, or of some particular art.

AC'ALOT, noun [Contracted from acacalotl.]

A Mexican fowl, called by some the aquatic crow. It is the ibis, or a fowl that very much resembles it.

Acalot

AC'ALOT, Corvusaquaticus, water raven.

Acamacu

ACAMAC'U, noun A bird, the Brazilian fly catcher, or Todus.

Acanaceous

ACANA'CEOUS, a acana'shus. [Gr. a prickly shrub.]

Armed with prickles. A class of plants are called acanaceae.

Acantha

ACANTH'A, noun [Gr. a spine or thorn.]

In botany, a prickle; in zoology, a spine or prickly fin; an acute process of the vertebers.

Acanthaceous

ACANTHA'CEOUS, adjective Armed with prickles, as a plant.

Acantharis

ACAN'THARIS, noun In entomology, a species of Cimex, with a spinous thorax, and a ciliated abdomen, with spines; found in Jamaica.

Acanthine

ACANTH'INE, adjective [See acanthus.]

Pertaining to the plant, acanthus. The acanthine garments of the ancients were made of the down of thistles, or embroidered in imitation of the acanthus.

Acanthopterygious

ACANTHOPTERYG'IOUS, a [Gr. a thorn, and a little feather, from a feather.]

In zoology, having back fins which are hard, bony and pricky, a term applied to certain fishes.

Acanthus

ACANTH'US, noun [G. and Latin acanthus from a prickle or thorn. See acantha.]

1. The plant bear's breech or brank ursine; a genus of several species, receiving their name from their prickles.

2. In architecture, an ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus used in capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders.

Acanticone

ACAN'TICONE, noun See Pistacite.

Acarnar

ACARN'AR, noun A bright star, of the first magnitude, in Eridanus.

Acatalectic

ACATALEC'TIC, noun [Gr. not defective at the end, to cease.] A verse, which has the complete number of syllables without defect or superfluity.

Acatalepsy

ACAT'ALEPSY, noun [Gr. to comprehend.]

Impossibility of complete discovery or comprehension; incomprehensibility. [Little used.]

Acatechill

ACAT'ECHILL, noun a Mexican bird, a species of Fringilla, of the size of the siskin.

Acater

ACATER, ACATES. See Caterer and Cates.

Acates

ACATER, ACATES See Caterer and Cates.

Acauline

ACAU'LINE, adjective [Latin a priv. and caulis, Gr. a stalk. See ACAU'LOUS, Colewort.]

In botany, without a stem, having flowers resting on the ground; as the Carline thistle.

Accede

ACCE'DE, verb intransitive [Latin accedo, of ad and cedo, to yield or give place, or rather to move.]

1. To agree or assent, as to a proposition, or to terms proposed by another. Hence in a negotiation.

2. To become a party, by agreeing to the terms of a treaty or convention.

Acceding

ACCE'DING, participle present tense Agreeing; assenting: becoming a party to a treaty by agreeing to the terms proposed.

Accelerate

ACCEL'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin accelero, of ad and celero, to hasten, from celer, quick.

1. To cause to move faster; to hasten; to quicken motion; to add to the velocity of a moving body. It implies previous motion or progression.

2. To add to natural or ordinary progression; as to accelerate the growth of a plant, or the progress of knowledge.

3. To bring nearer in time; to shorten the time between the present time and a future event; as to accelerate the ruin of a government; to accelerate a battle.

Accelerated

ACCEL'ERATED, participle passive Quickened in motion; hastened in progress.

Accelerating

ACCEL'ERATING, participle present tense Hastening; increasing velocity or progression.

Acceleration

ACCELERA'TION, noun The act of increasing velocity or progress; the state of being quickened in motion or action. Accelerated motion in mechanics and physics, is that which continually receives accessions of velocity; as, a falling body moves towards the earth with an acceleration of velocity. It is the opposite of retardation.

Acceleration of the moon, is the increase of the moon's mean motion from the sun, compared with the diurnal motion of the earth; the moon moving with more velocity now than in ancient times - a discovery made by Dr. Halley.

The diurnal acceleration of the fixed stars, is the time by which they anticipate the mean diurnal revolution of the sun, which is nearly three minutes, fifty-six seconds.

Accelerative

ACCEL'ERATIVE, adjective Adding to velocity; quickening progression.

Acceleratory

ACCEL'ERATORY, a Accelerating; quickening motion.

Accend

ACCEND', verb transitive [Latin accendo, to kindle; ad and candeo, caneo, to be white, canus, white; W. can, white, bright; also a song. Whence, canto, to sing, to chant; cantus, a song; Eng. cant; W. canu, to bleach or whiten, and to sing; cymnud, fuel. Hence, kindle, Latin candidus, candid, white. The primary sense is, to throw, dart, or thrust; to shoot, as the rays of light. Hence, to cant, to throw. See Chant and Cant.] To kindle; to set on fire. [The verb is not used.]

Accendibility

ACCENDIBIL'ITY, noun Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed.

Accendible

ACCEND'IBLE, adjective Capable OF being inflamed or kindled.

Accension

ACCEN'SION, noun The act of kindling or setting on fire; or the state of being kindled; inflammation.

Accent

AC'CENT, noun [Latin accentus, from ad and cano, cantum, to sing; See Accend.]

1. The modulation of the voice in reading or speaking, as practiced by the ancient Greeks, which rendered their rehearsal musical. More strictly, in English,

2. A particular stress or force of voice upon certain syllables of words, which distinguishes them from the others. accent is of two kinds, primary and secondary; as in as'pira'tion. In uttering this word, we observe the first and third syllables are distinguished; the third by a full sound, which constitutes the primary accent; the first by a degree of force in the voice which is less than that of the primary accent but evidently greater than that which falls on the second and fourth syllables.

When the full accent falls on a vowel, that vowel has its long sound, as in vo'cal; but when it falls on an articulation or consonant, the preceding vowel is short, as in hab'it. accent alone regulates English verse.

3. A mark or character used in writing to direct the stress of the voice in pronunciation. Our ancestors borrowed from the Greek language three of these characters, the acute, the grave and circumflex. In the Greek, the first shows when the voice is to be raised; the second, when it is to be depressed; and the third, when the vowel is to be uttered with an undulating sound.

4. A modulation of the voice expressive of passions or sentiments.

The tender accents of a woman's cry.

5. Manner of speaking.

A man of plain accent obsolete

6. Poetically, words, language, or expressions in general.

Words, on your wings, to heaven her accents bear,

Such words as heaven alone is fit to hear.

7. In music, a swelling of sounds, for the purpose of variety or expression. the principal accent falls on the first note in the bar, but the third place in common time requires also an accent

8. A peculiar tone or inflection of voice.

AC'CENT, verb transitive To express accent; to utter a syllable with a particular stress or modulation of the voice. In poetry, to utter or pronounce in general. Also to note accents by marks in writing.

Accented

AC'CENTED, participle passive Uttered with accent; marked with accent.

Accenting

AC'CENTING, participle present tense Pronouncing or marking with accent.

Accentual

ACCENT'UAL, adjective Pertaining to accent.

Accentuate

ACCENT'UATE, verb transitive To mark or pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Accentuation

ACCENTUA'TION, noun The act of placing accents in writing, or of pronouncing them in speaking.

Accept

ACCEPT', verb transitive [Latin accepto, from accipio, ad and capio, to take.]

1. To take or receive what is offered, with a consenting mind; to receive with approbation or favor.

Bless, Lord, his substance, and accept the work of his hands. Deuteronomy 33:11.

He made an offer which was accepted.

Observe the difference between receive and accept

He received an appointment or the offer of a commission, but he did not accept it.

2. To regard with partiality; to value or esteem.

It is not good to accept the person of the wicked. Proverbs 18:5. 2 Corinthians 8:12.

In theology, acceptance with God implies forgiveness of sins and reception into his favor.

3. To consent or agree to; to receive as terms of a contract; as, to accept a treaty; often followed by of.

ACCEPT of the terms.

4. To understand; to have a particular idea of; to receive in a particular sense.

How is this phrase to be accepted?

5. In commerce, to agree or promise to pay, as a bill of exchange. [See Acceptance.]

Acceptable

ACCEPT'ABLE, adjective

1. That may be received with pleasure; hence pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; as an acceptable present.

2. Agreeable or pleasing in person; as, a man makes himself acceptable by his services or civilities.

Acceptableness

ACCEPT'ABLENESS, noun the quality of being agreeable to a ACCEPTABIL'ITY, receiver, or to a person with whom one has intercourse. [The latter word is little used, or not at all.]

Acceptably

ACCEPT'ABLY, adverb In a manner to please, or give satisfaction.

Let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably

Hebrews 12:28.

Acceptance

ACCEPT'ANCE, noun

1. A receiving with approbation or satisfaction; favorable reception; as work done to acceptance

They shall come up with acceptance on my altar. Isaiah 60:7.

2. the receiving of a bill of exchange or order, in such a manner, as to bind the acceptor to make payment. This must be by express words; and to charge the drawer with costs, in case of non payment, the acceptance must be in writing, under across, or on the back of the bill.

3. An agreeing to terms or proposals in commerce, by which a bargain is concluded and the parties bound.

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4. An agreeing to the act or contact of another, by some act which binds the person in law; as, a bishop's taking rent reserved on a lease made by his predecessor, is an acceptance of the terms of the lease and binds the party.

5. In mercantile language, a bill of exchange accepted; as a merchant receives another's acceptance in payment.

6. Formerly, the sense is which a word is understood. obsolete

[See Acceptation.]

Acceptation

ACCEPTA'TION, noun

1. Kind reception; a receiving with favor or approbation.

This is a saying worthy of all acceptation 1 Timothy 1:15.

2. A state of being acceptable; favorable regard.

Some things are of great dignity and acceptation with God

But in this sense acceptableness is more generally used.

3. the meaning or sense in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as a term is to be used according to its usual acceptation

4. Reception in general. obsolete

Accepted

ACCEPT'ED, participle passive Kindly received; regarded; agreed to; understood; received as a bill of exchange.

Accepter

ACCEPT'ER, OR ACCEPT'OR, noun A person who accepts; the person who receives a bill of exchange so as to bind himself to pay it. [See Acceptance.]

Accepting

ACCEPT'ING, participle present tense Receiving favorably; agreeing to; understanding.

Acception

ACCEP'TION, noun The received sense of a word. [Not now used.]

Acceptive

ACCEPT'IVE, adjective Ready to accept. [Not used.]

Acceptor

ACCEPT'ER, OR ACCEPT'OR, noun A person who accepts; the person who receives a bill of exchange so as to bind himself to pay it. [See Acceptance.]

Access

ACCESS', noun [Latin accessus, from accedo. See Accede.]

1. A coming to; near approach; admittance; admission, as to gain access to a prince.

2. Approach, or the way by which a thing may be approached; as, the access is by a neck of land.

3. Means of approach; liberty to approach; implying previous obstacles.

By whom also we have access by faith. Romans 5:2.

4. Admission to sexual intercourse.

During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown.

5. Addition; increase by something added; as an access of territory; but in this sense accession is more generally used.

6. The return of a fit or paroxysm of disease, or fever. In this sense accession is generally used.

Accessarily

ACCESSARILY, See ACCESSORILY.

Accessariness

ACCESSARINESS, See ACCESSORINESS

Accessary

ACCESSARY, See ACCESSORY.

Accessibility

ACCESSIBIL'ITY, noun The quality of being approachable; or of admitting access.

Accessible

ACCESS'IBLE, adjective

1. That may be approached or reached; approachable; applied to things; as an accessible town or mountain.

2. Easy of approach, affable, used of persons.

Accession

ACCESS'ION, noun [Latin accessio.]

1. A coming to; an acceding to and joining; as a king's accession to a confederacy.

2. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation; as an accession of wealth or territory.

3. In law, 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 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.

4. The act of arriving at a throne, an office, or dignity.

5. That which is added.

The only accession which the Roman Empire received, was the province of Britain.

6. The invasion of a fit of a periodical disease, or fever. It differs from exacerbation. accession implies a total previous intermission, as of a fever; exacerbation implies only a previous remission or abatement of violence.

Accessional

ACCESS'IONAL, adjective Additional

Accessorial

ACCESSO'RIAL, adjective Pertaining to an accessory; as accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.

Accessorily

AC'CESSORILY, adverb [See Accessory.] In the manner of an accessory; by subordinate means, or in a secondary character; not as principal, but as a subordinate agent.

Accessoriness

AC'CESSORINESS, noun The state of being accessory, or of being or acting in a secondary character.

Accessory

AC'CESSORY, adjective [Latin Accessorius, from accessus, accedo. See Accede. This word is accented on the first syllable on account of the derivatives, which require a secondary accent on the third; but the natural accent of accessory is on the second syllable, and thus it is often pronounced by good speakers.]

1. Acceding; contributing; aiding in producing some effect, or acting in subordination to the principal agent. Usually, in a bad sense, as John was accessory to the felony.

2. Aiding in certain acts or effects in a secondary manner, as accessory sounds in music.

AC'CESSORY, noun

1. In law, one who is guilty of a felony, not by committing the offense in person or as principal, but by advising or commanding another to commit the crime, or by concealing the offender. There may be accessories in all felonies, but not in treason. An accessory before the fact, is one who counsels or commands another to commit a felony, and is not present when the act is executed; after the fact, when one receives and conceals the offender.

2. That which accedes or belongs to something else, as its principal.

Accessory nerves, in anatomy, a pair of nerves, which arising from the medulla in the vertebers of the neck, ascend and enter the skull; then passing out with the par vagum, are distributed into the muscles of the neck and shoulders.

Accessory, among painters, an epithet given to parts of a history-piece which are merely ornamental, as vases, armor, etc.

Accidence

AC'CIDENCE, noun [See Accident.] A small book containing the rudiments of grammar.

Accident

AC'CIDENT, noun [Latin accidens, falling, from ad and cado, to fall. See Case and Cadence. Class Gd.]

1. A coming or falling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusual effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected; chance; casualty; contingency.

2. That which takes place or begins to exist without an efficient intelligent cause and without design.

All of them, in his opinion, owe their being, to fate, accident or the blind action of stupid matter.

3. In logic, a property, or quality of a being which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper. Also all qualities are called accidents, in opposition to substance, as sweetness, softness, and things not essential to a body, as clothes.

4. In grammar, something belonging to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, inflection.

5. In heraldry, a point or mark, not essential to a coat of arms.

Accidental

ACCIDENT'AL, adjective

1. Happening by chance, or rather unexpectedly; casual; fortuitous, taking place not according to the usual course of things; opposed to that which is constant, regular, or intended, as an accidental visit.

2. Non-essential; not necessarily belonging to; as songs are accidental to a play.

Accidental colors, are those which depend upon the affections of the eye, in distinction from those which belong to the light itself.

Accidental point, in perspective, is that point in the horizontal line, where the projections of two lines parallel to each other, meet the perspective plane.

Accidentally

ACCIDENT'ALLY, adverb By chance; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.

Accidentalness

ACCIDENT'ALNESS, noun The quality of being casual. [Little used.]

Accidentiary

ACCIDEN'TIARY, adjective Pertaining to the accidence. [Not used.]

Accipiter

ACCIP'ITER, noun [Latin ad and capio, to seize.]

1. A name given to a fish, the milvus or lucerna, a species of Trigla.

2. In ornithology, the name of the order of rapacious fowls.

The accipiters have a hooked bill, the superior mandible, near the base, being extended on each side beyond the inferior. The genera are the vultur, the falco, or hawk, and the strix, or owl.

Accipitrine

ACCIP'ITRINE, adjective Seizing; rapacious; as the accipitrine order of fowls.

Accite

ACCI'TE verb transitive [Latin adand cito, to cite.] To call; to cite; to summon. [Not used.]

Acclaim

ACCLA'IM verb transitive [L acclamo, ad and clamo, to cry out. See Claim, Clamor.] To applaud. [Little used.

ACCLA'IM, noun A shout of joy; acclamation.

Acclamation

ACCLAMA'TION, noun [Latin acclamatio. See acclaim.]

A shout of applause uttered by a multitude. Anciently, acclamation was a form of words, uttered with vehemence, somewhat resembling a song, sometimes accompanied with applauses which were given by the hands. Acclamations were ecclesiastical, military, nuptial, senatorial, synodical, theatrical, _e; They were musical and rythmical; and bestowed for joy, respect, and even reproach, and often accompanied with words, repeated, five, twenty, and even sixty and eighty times. In the later ages of Rome, acclamations were performed by a chorus of music instructed for the purpose.

In modern times, acclamations are expressed by huzzas; by clapping of hands; and often by repeating vivat rex, vivat respublica, long live the king or republish, or other words expressive of joy and good wishes.

Acclamatory

ACCLAM'ATORY, adjective Expressing joy or applause by shouts, or clapping of hands.

Acclimated

ACCLI'MATED, adjective Habituated to a foreign climate, or a climate not native; so far accustomed to a foreign climate as not to be peculiarly liable to its endemical diseases.

Acclivity

ACCLIV'ITY, noun [Latin acclivus, acclivis, ascending, from ad and clivus, an ascent.

A slope or inclination of the earth as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or a side descending. Rising ground; ascent; the talus of a rampart.

Acclivous

ACCLI'VOUS, adjective Rising, as a hill with a slope.

Accloy

ACCLOY', To fill; to stuff; to fill to satiety. [Not used.] [See Clay.]

Accoil

ACCOIL', [See Coil.]

Accola

AC'COLA, noun A delicate fish eaten at Malta.

Accolade

ACCOLA'DE, noun [Latin ad and collum, neck.]

A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood; but whether an embrace or a blow, seems not to be settled.

Accommodable

ACCOM'MODABLE, adjective [See Accommodate.]

That may be fitted, made suitable, or made to agree. [Little used.]

Accommodate

ACCOM'MODATE, verb transitive [Latin accommodo, to apply or suit, from ad and commodo, to profit or help; of con, with, and modus, measure, proportion, limit, or manner. See Mode.]

1. To fit, adapt, or make suitable; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances; to accommodate the choice of subjects to the occasions.

2. To supply with or furnish; followed by with; as, to accommodate a man with apartments.

3. To supply with conveniences, as to accommodate a friend.

4. To reconcile things which are at variance; to adjust; as to accommodate differences.

5. To show fitness or agreement; to apply; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.

6. To lend - a commercial sense.

In an intransitive sense, to agree, to be conformable to, as used by Boyle.

ACCOM'MODATE, adjective suitable; fit; adapted; as means accommodate to the end.

Accommodated

ACCOM'MODATED, participle passive fitted; adjusted; adapted; applied; also furnished with conveniences.

We are well accommodated with lodgings.

Accommodately

ACCOM'MODATELY, adverb Suitable; fitly. [Little used.]

Accommodateness

ACCOM'MODATENESS, noun fitness. [Little used.]

Accommodating

ACCOM'MODATING, participle present tense Adapting; making suitable; reconciling; furnishing with conveniences; applying.

ACCOM'MODATING, adjective Adapting one's self to; obliging; yielding to the desires of others; disposed to comply, and to oblige another; as an accommodating man.

Accommodation

ACCOMMODA'TION, noun

1. Fitness; adaptation; followed by to.

The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.

2. Adjustment of differences; reconciliation; as of parties in dispute.

3. Provision of conveniences.

4. In plural; conveniences; things furnished for use; chiefly applied to lodgings.

5. In mercantile language, accommodation is used for a loan of money; which is often a great convenience. An accommodation note, in the language of bank directors, is one drawn and offered for discount, for the purpose of borrowing its amount, in opposition to a note, which the owner has received in payment for goods.

In England, accommodation bill, is one given instead of a loan of money.

6. It is also used of a note lent merely to accommodate the borrower.

7. In theology, accommodation is the application of one thing to another by analogy, as of the words of a prophecy to a future event.

Many of those quotations were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations.

8. In marine language, an accommodation ladder is a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway.

Accommodator

ACCOM'MODATOR, noun One that accommodates; one that adjusts.

Accompanable

ACCOM'PANABLE, adjective [See Accompany.] sociable. [Not used.]

Accompanied

ACCOM'PANIED, participle passive Attended; joined with in society.

Accompaniment

ACCOM'PANIMENT, noun Something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added by way of ornament to the principal thing, or for the sake of symmetry. Thus instruments of music attending the voice; small objects in painting; dogs, guns and game in a hunting piece; warlike instruments with the portrait of a military character, are accompaniments.

Accompanist

ACCOM'PANIST, noun The performer in music who takes the accompanying part.

Accompany

ACCOM'PANY, verb transitive [See Company.]

1. To go with or attend as a companion or associate on a journey, walk, etc.; as a man accompanies his friend to church, or on a tour.

2. To be with as connected; to attend; as pain accompanies disease.

ACCOM'PANY, verb intransitive

1. To attend; to be an associate; as to accompany with others. obsolete

2. To cohabit.

3. In music, to perform the accompanying part in a composition.

Accompanying

ACCOM'PANYING, participle present tense Attending; going with as a companion.

Accomplice

ACCOM'PLICE, noun [Latin complicatus, folded together, of con, with, and plico, to fold. See Complex and Pledge.] An associate in a crime; a partner or partaker in guilt. It was formerly used in a good sense for a co-operator, but this sense is wholly obsolete. It is followed by with before a person; as A was an accomplice with B in the murder of C. Dryden uses it with to before a thing.

Accomplish

ACCOM'PLISH, verb transitive [Latin compleo, to complete. See Complete.]

1. To complete; to finish entirely.

That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolation of Jerusalem. Daniel 9:2

2. To execute; as to accomplish a vow, wrath or fury. Leviticus 22:21 and 20.

3. To gain; to obtain or effect by successful exertions; as to accomplish a purpose. Proverbs 13:19.

4. To fulfil or bring to pass; as, to accomplish a prophecy.

This that is written must yet be accomplished in me. Luke 22:37.

5. To furnish with qualities which serve to render the mind or body complete, as with valuable endowments and elegant manners.

Accomplished

ACCOM'PLISHED, participle passive

1. Finished; completed; fulfilled; executed; effected.

2. adjective Well endowed with good qualities and manners; complete in acquirements; having a finished education.

3. Fashionable.

Accomplisher

ACCOM'PLISHER, noun One who accomplishes.

Accomplishing

ACCOM'PLISHING, participle present tense finishing; completing; fulfilling; executing; effecting; furnishing with valuable qualities.

Accomplishment

ACCOM'PLISHMENT, noun

1. Completion; fulfillment; entire performance; as the accomplishment of a prophecy.

2. The act of carrying into effect, or obtaining an object designed; attainment; as the accomplishment of our desires or ends.

3. Acquirement; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education.

Accord

ACCORD', noun The Lat. has concors, concordo.

1. Agreement; harmony of minds; consent or concurrence of opinions or wills.

They all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts 1:14.

2. Concert; harmony of sounds; the union of different sounds, which is agreeable to the ear; agreement in pitch and tone; as the accord of notes; but in this sense, it is more usual to employ concord or chord.

3. Agreement; just correspondence of things; as the accord of light and shade in painting.

4. Will; voluntary or spontaneous motion; used of the will of persons, or the natural motion of other bodies, and preceded by own.

Being more forward of his own accord 2 Corinthians 8:17.

That which groweth of its own accord thou shall not reap. Leviticus 25:5.

5. Adjustment of a difference; reconciliation.

The mediator of an accord

6. In law, an agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.

7. Permission, leave.

ACCORD', verb transitive

1. To make to agree, or correspond; to adjust one thing to another.

Her hands accorded the lute's music to the voice.

2. To being to an agreement; to settle, adjust or compose; as to accord suits or controversies.

ACCORD, verb intransitive

1. To agree; to be in correspondence.

My heart accordeth with my tongue.

2. To agree in pitch and tone.

Accordable

ACCORD'ABLE, adjective Agreeable, consonant.

Accordant

ACCORD'ANT, adjective Corresponding; consonant; agreeable.

Accorded

ACCORD'ED, participle passive Make to agree; adjusted.

Accorder

ACCORD'ER, noun One that aids, or favors. [Little used.]

According

ACCORD'ING, participle present tense

1. Agreeing; harmonizing.

Th' according music of a well mixt state.

2. Suitable; agreeable; in accordance with.

In these senses, the word agrees with or refers to a sentence.

Our zeal should be according to knowledge.

Noble is the fame that is built on candor and ingenuity, according to those beautiful lines of Sir John Denham.

Here the whole preceding parts of the sentence are to accord, i.e. agree with, correspond with, or be suitable to, what follows. according here, has its true participial sense, agreeing, and is always followed by to. It is never a preposition.

Accordingly

ACCORD'INGLY, adverb Agreeably; suitably; in a manner conformable to.

Those who live in faith and good works, will be rewarded accordingly

Accorporate

ACCORP'ORATE, verb transitive To unite; [Not in use.] [See Incorporate.]

Accost

ACCOST', verb transitive

1. To approach; to draw near; to come side by side, or face to face. [Not in use.]

2. To speak first to; to address.

ACCOST', verb intransitive to adjoin. [Not in use.]

Accostable

ACCOST'ABLE, adjective Ease of access; familiar.

Accosted

ACCOST'ED, participle passive Address; first spoken to. In heraldry, being side by side.

Accosting

ACCOST'ING, participle present tense Addressing by first speaking to.

Accoucheur

ACCOUCHEUR, noun accoshare. A man who assists women in childbirth.

Account

ACCOUNT', noun

1. A sum stated on paper; a registry of a debt or credit; of debts and credits, or charges; an entry in a book or on paper of things bought or sold, of payments, services etc., including the names of the parties to the transaction, date, and price or value of the thing.

ACCOUNT signifies a single entry or charge, or a statement of a number of particular debts and credits, in a book or on a separate paper; and in the plural, is used for the books containing such entries.

2. A computation of debts and credits, or a general statement of particular sums; as, the account stands thus; let him exhibit his account

3. A computation or mode of reckoning; applied to other things, than money or trade; as the Julian account of time.

4. Narrative; relation; statement of facts; recital of particular transactions and events, verbal or written; as an account of the revolution in France. Hence,

5. An assignment of reasons; explanation by a recital of particular transactions, given by a person in an employment, or to a superior, often implying responsibility.

Give an account of thy stewardship. Luke 16:2.

Without responsibility or obligation.

He giveth not account of his matters. Job 33:13.

6. Reason or consideration, as a motive; as on all accounts, on every account

7. Value; importance; estimation; that is, such a state of persons or things, as renders them worthy of more or less estimation; as men of account of him. Psalms 144:3.

8. Profit; advantage; that is, a result or production worthy of estimation. To find our account in a pursuit; to turn to account

9. Regard; behalf; sake; a sense deduced from charges on book; as on account of public affairs.

Put that to mine account Phile 18.

To make account that is, to have a pervious opinion or expectation, is a sense now obsolete.

A writ of account in law, is a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant should render his just account or show good cause to the contrary; call also an action of account

ACCOUNT', verb transitive

1. To deem, judge, consider, think, or hold in opinion.

I and my son Solomon shall be accounted offenders. 1 Kings 1:21.

2. To account of, to hold in esteem; to value.

Let a man so account of us as of ministers of Christ. 1 Corinthians 4:1.

3. To reckon, or compute; as, the motion of the sun whereby years are accounted - also to assign as a debt; as, a project accounted to his service; but these uses are antiquated.

ACCOUNT', verb intransitive

1. To render an account or relation of particulars. An officer must account with or to the Treasurer for money received.

2. To give reasons; to assign the causes; to explain; with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

3. To render reasons; to answer for in a responsible character.

We must account for all the talents entrusted to us.

Accountability

ACCOUNTABIL'ITY, noun

1. The state of being liable to answer for one's conduct; liability to give account, and to receive reward or punishment for actions.

The awful idea of accountability

2. Liability to the payment of money or of damages; responsibility for a trust.

Accountable

ACCOUNT'ABLE, adjective

1. Liable to be called to account; answerable to a superior.

Every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

2. Subject to pay, or make good, in case of loss. A sheriff is accountable as bailiff and receiver of goods.

Accountable for, that may be explained. [Not elegant.]

Accountableness

ACCOUNT'ABLENESS, noun Liableness to answer or to give account; the state of being answerable, or liable to the payment of money or damages.

Accountant

ACCOUNT'ANT, noun One skilled in mercantile accounts; more generally, a person who keeps accounts; an officer in a public office who has charge of the accounts. In Great Britain, an officer in the court of chancery, who receives money and pays it to the bank, is call accountant-general.

Accountbook

ACCOUNT'BOOK, noun A book in which accounts are kept.

Accounted

ACCOUNT'ED, participle passive Esteemed; deemed; considered; regarded; valued.

Accounted for, explained.

Accounting

ACCOUNT'ING, participle present tense Deeming; esteeming; reckoning; rendering an account.

Accounting for, rendering an account; assigning the reasons; unfolding the causes.

ACCOUNT'ING, noun The act of reckoning or adjusting accounts.

Accouple

ACCOUPLE, verb transitive accup'ple. To couple; to join or link together. [See Couple.]

Accouplement

ACCOUPLEMENT, noun accup'plement. A coupling, a connecting in pairs; junction. [Little used.]

Accourage

ACCOUR'AGE, verb transitive accur'age. [See Courage.] To encourage. [Not used.]

Accourt

ACCOURT, verb transitive [See Court.] To entertain with courtesy. [Not used.]

Accouter

ACCOUTER, verb transitive acoot'er

In a general sense, to dress; to equip, but appropriately, to array in a military dress; to put on, or to furnish with a military dress and arms; to equip the body for military service.

Accoutered

ACCOUT'ERED, participle passive Dressed in arms; equipped.

Accoutering

ACCOUT'ERING, participle present tense Equipping with military habiliments.

Accouterments

ACCOUT'ERMENTS, noun plural

1. Dress; equipage; furniture for the body; appropriately, military dress and arms; equipage for military service.

2. In common usage, an old or unusual dress.

Accoy

ACCOY', verb transitive To render quiet or diffident; to soothe; to caress. [Obs.]

Accredit

ACCRED'IT, verb transitive [Latin ad and credo, to believe, or give faith to. See Credit.]

To give credit, authority, or reputation; to accredit an envoy, is to receive him in his public character, and give him credit and rank accordingly.

Accreditation

ACCREDITA'TION, noun That which gives title to credit. [Little used.]

Accredited

ACCRED'ITED, participle passive Allowed; received with reputation; authorized in a public character.

Accrediting

ACCRED'ITING, participle present tense Giving authority or reputation.

Accrescent

ACCRES'CENT, adjective [See Accretion.] Increasing.

Accretion

ACCRE'TION, noun [Lat. accretio, increase; accres'co, to increase, literally, to grow to; ad and cresco; Eng. accrue; See Increase, Accrue, Grow.]

1. A growing to; an increase by natural growth; applied to the increase of organic bodies by the accession of parts.

Plants have an accretion but no alimentation.

2. In the civil law, the adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; as, when a legacy is left to two persons, and one of them dies before the testator, the legacy devolves to the survivor by right of accretion

Accretive

ACCRE'TIVE, adjective Increasing by growth; growing; adding to be growth; as the accretive motion of plants.

Accroach

ACCROACH, verb intransitive

1. To hook, or draw to, as with a hook; but in this sense not used.

2. To encroach; to draw away from another. Hence in old laws to assume the exercise of royal prerogatives.

The noun accroachment, an encroachment, or attempt to exercise royal power, is rarely or never used. [See Encroach.]

Accrue

ACCRUE, verb intransitive accru'. [Latin accresco, cresco.]

Literally, to grow to; hence to arise, proceed or come; to be added, as increase, profit or damage; as, a profit accrues to government from the coinage of copper; a loss accrues from the coinage of gold and silver.

ACCRUE, noun accru'. Something that accedes to, or follows the property of another. obsolete

Accruing

ACCRU'ING, participle present tense Growing to; arising; coming; being added.

Accrument

ACCRU'MENT, noun Addition; increase. [Little used.]

Accubation

ACCUBA'TION, noun [Latin accubatio, a reclingin, from ad and cubo, to lie down. See Cube.]

A lying or reclining on a couch, as the ancients at their meals. The manner was to recline on low beds or couches with the head resting on a pillow or on the elbow. Two or three men lay on one bed, the feet of one extended behind the back of another. This practice was not permitted among soldiers, children and servants; nor was it known, until luxury had corrupted manners.

Accumb

ACCUMB', verb intransitive [Latin accumbo; ad and cubo.] To recline as at table. [Not used.]

Accumbency

ACCUM'BENCY, noun State of being accumbent or reclining.

Accumbent

ACCUM'BENT, adjective [Latin accumbens, accumbo, from cubo. See Accubation.] Leaning or reclining, as the ancients at their meals.

Accumulate

ACCU'MULATE, verb transitive [Latin accumulo, ad and cumulo, to heap; cumulus a heap.]

1. To heap up; to pile; to amass; as, to accumulate earth or stones.

2. To collect or bring together; as to accumulate causes of misery; to accumulate wealth.

ACCU'MULATE, verb intransitive To grow to a great size, number or quantity; to increase greatly; as public evils accumulate

ACCU'MULATE, adjective Collected into a mass, or quantity.

Accumulated

ACCU'MULATED, participle passive Collected into a heap or great quantity.

Accumulating

ACCU'MULATING, participle present tense Heaping up; amassing; increasing greatly.

Accumulation

ACCUMULA'TION, noun

1. The act of accumulating; the state of being accumulated; an amassing; a collecting together; as an accumulation of earth or of evils.

2. In law, the concurrence of several titles to the same thing, or of several circumstances to the same proof.

3. In Universities, an accumulation of degrees, is the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual, or than is allowed by the rules.

Accumulative

ACCU'MULATIVE, adjective That accumulates; heaping up; accumulating.

Accumulator

ACCU'MULATOR, noun One that accumulates, gathers, or amasses.

Accuracy

AC'CURACY, noun [Latin accuratio, from accurare, to take care of; ad and curare, to take care; cura, care. See Care.]

1. Exactness; exact conformity to truth; or to a rule or model; freedom from mistake; nicety; correctness; precision which results from care. The accuracy of ideas or opinions is conformity to truth. The value of testimony depends on its accuracy; copies of legal instruments should be taken with accuracy

2. Closeness; tightness; as a tube sealed with accuracy

Accurate

AC'CURATE, adjective [Latin accuratus.]

1. In exact conformity to truth, or to a standard or rule, or to a model; free from failure, error, or defect; as an accurate account; accurate measure; an accurate expression.

2. Determinate; precisely fixed; as, one body may not have a very accurate influence on another.

3. Close; perfectly tight; as an accurate sealing or luting.

Accurately

AC'CURATELY, adverb

1. Exactly; in an accurate manner; with precision; without error or defect; as a writing accurately copied.

2. Closely; so as to be perfectly tight; as a vial accurately stopped.

Accurateness

AC'CURATENESS, noun Accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.

Accurse

ACCURSE, verb transitive accurs', [ Ac for ad and curse.] To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon. [This verb is rarely used. See Curse.]

Accursed

ACCURS'ED, participle passive or adjective

1. Doomed to destruction or misery:

The city shall be accursed. Joshua 6:17

2. Separated from the faithful; cast out of the church; excommunicated.

I could wish myself accursed from Christ.

3. Worthy of the curse; detestable; execrable.

Keep from the accursed thing. Joshua 6:18.

Hence,

4. Wicked; malignant in the extreme.

Accusable

ACCU'SABLE, adjective That may be accused; chargeable with a crime; blamable; liable to censure; followed by of.

Accusant

ACCU'SANT, noun One who accuses.

Accusation

ACCUSA'TION, noun

1. The act of charging with a crime or offense; the act of accusing of any wrong or injustice.

2. The charge of an offense or crime; or the declaration containing the charge.

They set over his head his accusation Matthew 27:37.

Accusative

ACCU'SATIVE, adjective A term given to a case of nouns, in Grammars, on which the action of a verb terminates or falls; called in English Grammar the objective case.

Accusatively

ACCU'SATIVELY, adverb

1. In an accusative manner.

2. In relation to the accusative case in Grammar.

Accusatory

ACCU'SATORY, adjective Accusing; containing an accusation; as an accusatory libel.

Accuse

ACCU'SE, verb transitive [Latin accuso, to blame or accuse; ad and causor, to blame, or accuse; causa, blame, suit, or process, cause. See Cause.]

1. To charge with, or declare to have committed a crime, either by plaint, or complaint, information, indictment, or impeachment; to charge with an offense against the laws, judicially or by a public process; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.

2. To charge with a fault; to blame.

Their thoughts, in the meanwhile, accusing or excusing one another. Romans 2:15.

It is followed by of before the subject of accusation; the use of for after this verb is illegitimate.