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Acceptilation

Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.

Acceptor

One who accepts one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.

Access

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

Accessary

One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense.

Accessibility

The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility.

Accessible

Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person.

Accession

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.

Accessorial

Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.

Accessoriness

The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.

Accessory

That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.

Acciaccatura

A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.

Accidence

The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.

Accident

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.

Accidental

A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.

Accidentally

In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.

Accipiter

A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores.

Accipitral

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike.

Accipitres

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.

Accipitridae

a family of birds consisting of the hawks; -- this family includes the Old World vultures; kites; harriers; and eagles.

Accipitriformes

in some classifications an alternative name for the Falconiformes.

Accipitrine

Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.

Acclamation

A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause.

Acclamatory

Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation.

Acclimate

To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.

Acclimation

The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

Acclimatization

The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured.

Acclimatize

To inure or habituate to 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.

Acclimature

The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated.

Acclivity

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.

Acclivous

Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous.

Accloy

To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See Cloy.

Accoast

To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost.

Accoil

To gather together; to collect.

Accolade

A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting of an embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

Accommodable

That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree.

Accommodate

Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

Accommodating

Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

Accompaniment

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. 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.

Accompanist

The performer in music who takes the accompanying part.

Accompany

To associate in a company; to keep company.

accompanyist

a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano).

Accomplished

Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact.

Accomplishment

The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.

Accord

To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.

Accordant

Agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to.

Accordantly

In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.

Accorder

One who accords, assents, or concedes.

Accordingly

Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable.

Accordion

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

Accosted

Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.

Accoucheur

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

Account

To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

Accountability

The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; the obligation to bear the consequences for failure to perform as expected; accountableness.

Accountable

Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

Accouplement

The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union.

Accourt

To treat courteously; to court.

Accoutre Accouter

To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array.

accoutred accoutered

provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose especially military; as, troops accoutered for battle

accoutrement

an item of clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of one's main clothing.

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