Webster's Dictionary 1913

757

Accreditation

Ac‐cred′i‐ta″tion (�), n. The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation.

758

Accrementitial

Ac′cre‐men‐ti″tial (�), a.(Physiol.) Pertaining to accremention.

759

Accrementition

Ac′cre‐men‐ti″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 ...

760

Accresce

Ac‐cresce″ (ăk‐krĕs″), v. i. [L. accrescere. See Accrue.] 1. To accrue.2. To increase; to grow. Gillespie.

761

Accrescence

Ac‐cres″cence (–krĕs″sens), n. [LL. accrescentia.] Continuous growth; an accretion.The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradict...

762

Accrescent

Ac‐cres″cent (–sent), a. [L. accrescens, -entis, p. pr. of accrescere; ad + crescere to grow. See Crescent.]1. Growing; increasing. Shuckford.2. (Bot.) Growing larger after flow...

763

Accrete

Ac‐crete″ (ăk‐krēt″), v. i. [From L. accretus, p. p. of accrescere to increase.] 1. To grow together.2. To adhere; to grow (to); to be added; — with to.

764

Accrete (2)

Ac‐crete″, v. t. To make adhere; to add. Earle.

765

Accrete (3)

Ac‐crete″, a. 1. Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.2. (Bot.) Grown together. Gray.

766

Accretion

Ac‐cre″tion (ăk‐krē″shŭn), n. [L. accretio, fr. accrescere to increase. Cf. Crescent, Increase, Accrue.]1. The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic ...

767

Accretive

Ac‐cre″tive (�), a. Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth. Glanvill.

768

Accriminate

Ac‐crim″i‐nate (�), v. t. [L. ac- (for ad to) + criminari.] To accuse of a crime. — Ac‐crim′i‐na″tion (�), n.

769

Accroach

Ac‐croach″ (–krōch″), v. t. [OE. acrochen, accrochen, to obtain, OF. acrochier, F. accrocher; à (L. ad) + croc hook (E. crook).] 1. To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook...

770

Accroachment

Ac‐croach″ment (–ment), n. [Cf. F. accrochement.] An encroachment; usurpation. Bailey.

771

Accrual

Ac‐cru″al (ăk‐krṳ″al), n. Accrument.

772

Accrue

Ac‐crue″ (ăk‐krṳ″), 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, he...

773

Accrue (2)

Ac‐crue″, n. [F. accrû, OF. acreü, p. p. of accroitre, OF. acroistre to increase; L. ad + crescere to increase. Cf. Accretion, Crew. See Crescent.] Something that accrues; advan...

774

Accruer

Ac‐cru″er (ăk‐krṳ″ẽr), n.(Law) The act of accruing; accretion; as, title by accruer.

775

Accrument

Ac‐cru″ment (–ment), n. The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase. Jer. Taylor.

776

Accubation

Ac′cu‐ba″tion (ăk‐kū̍‐bā″shŭn), n. [L. accubatio, for accubitio, fr. accubare to recline; ad + cubare to lie down. See Accumb.] The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as pr...

777

Accumb

Ac‐cumb″ (ăk‐kŭmb″), v. i. [L. accumbere; ad + cumbere (only in compounds) to lie down.] To recline, as at table. Bailey.

778

Accumbency

Ac‐cum″ben‐cy (ăk‐kŭm″ben‐sy̆), n. The state of being accumbent or reclining.

779

Accumbent

Ac‐cum″bent (–bent), a. 1. Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.The Roman... accumbent posture in eating.Arbuthnot.2. (Bot.) Lying against anything, as one p...

780

Accumbent (2)

Ac‐cum″bent, n. One who reclines at table.

781

Accumber

Ac‐cum″ber (–bẽr), v. t. To encumber. Chaucer.

782

Accumulate

Ac‐cu″mu‐late (�), 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 ...

783

Accumulate (2)

Ac‐cu″mu‐late (ăk‐kū″mū̍‐lāt), 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 me...