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ACCESS'IONAL, adjective Additional
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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...
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...
ACCIDENTAL
ACCIDENT'AL, adjective1. Happening by chance, or rather unexpectedly; casual; fortuitous, taking place not according to the usual course of things; opposed to that which is cons...
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...
ACCIPITRINE
ACCIP'ITRINE, adjective Seizing; rapacious; as the accipitrine order of fowls.
ACCITE
ACCI'TEverb transitive [Latin adand cito, to cite.] To call; to cite; to summon. [Not used.]
ACCLAIM
ACCLA'IMverb 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 resem...
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 oppos...
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 Mod...
ACCOMMODATED
ACCOM'MODATED, participle passive fitted; adjusted; adapted; applied; also furnished with conveniences.We are well accommodated with lodgings.