Acclive
Ac‐clive″ (�), a. Acclivous.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Ac‐clive″ (�), a. Acclivous.
Ac‐cliv″i‐tous (�), a. Acclivous. I. Taylor.
Ac‐cliv″i‐ty, 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 th...
Ac‐cli″vous (#; 277), a. [L. acclivis and acclivus.] Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; — opposed to declivous.
Ac‐cloy″ (–kloi″), 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. S...
Ac‐coast″ (–kōst″), v. t. & i. [See Accost, Coast.] To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost.Whether high towering or accoasting low.Spenser.
Ac‐coil″ (�), v. t. [OE. acoillir to receive, F. accueillir; L. ad + colligere to collect. See Coil.] 1. To gather together; to collect. Spenser.2. (Naut.) To coil together. Ham...
Ac′co‐lade″ (ăk′kō̍‐lād″ or –lȧd″; 277), n. [F. accolade, It. accolata, fr. accollare to embrace; L. ad + collum neck.] 1. A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, con...
Ac‐com‐bi‐na″tion (�), n. [L. ad + E. combination.] A combining together.
Ac‐com″mo‐da‐ble (�), a. [Cf. F. accommodable.] That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree. I. Watts.
Ac‐com″mo‐dable‐ness, n. The quality or condition of being accommodable. Todd.
Ac‐com″mo‐date (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Accommodated (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Accommodating (�).] [L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare; ad + commodare to make fit, help; con- + modu...
Ac‐com″mo‐date, v. i. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. Boyle.
Ac‐com″mo‐date (�), a. [L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare.] Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. Tillotson.
Ac‐com″mo‐date‐ly, adv. Suitably; fitly.
Ac‐com″mo‐date‐ness, n. Fitness.
Ac‐com″mo‐da′ting (�), a. Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.
Ac‐com′mo‐da″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; adjust...
Ac‐com″mo‐da′tor (�), n. He who, or that which, accommodates. Warburton.
Ac‐com″pa‐na‐ble (�), a. Sociable. Sir P. Sidney.
Ac‐com″pa‐ni‐er (�), n. He who, or that which, accompanies. Lamb.
Ac‐com″pa‐ni‐ment (–ment), n. [F. accompagnement.] That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the princi...
Ac‐com″pa‐nist (�), n. The performer in music who takes the accompanying part. Busby.
Ac‐com″pa‐ny (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Accompanied (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Accompanying (�)] [OF. aacompaignier, F. accompagner, to associate with, fr. OF. compaign, compain, companio...
Ac‐com″pa‐ny, v. i. 1. To associate in a company; to keep company. Bacon.Men say that they will drive away one another,... and not accompany together.Holland.2. To cohabit (with...
Ac‐com″ple‐tive (�), a. [L. ad + complere, completum, to fill up.] Tending to accomplish.
Ac‐com″plice (�), n. [Ac- (perh. for the article a or for L. ad) + E. complice. See Complice.]1. A cooperator.Success unto our valiant general,And happiness to his accomplices!S...