To whom Satan turning, boldly: "Ye powers

And spirits of this nethermost abyss,

Chaos and ancient Night, I come no spy,
With purpose to explore or to disturb

The secrets of your realm."-Milton. Par. Lost, b. ii.

Let first the mystagogical illuminations of the great Acoperite, and the ascetike discipline of the anachoretical habitants of the wilderness, purifie thy eye; before thou steptest to speak, or to aim at the discovery of these ming depths.—Sir K. Digby. On the Soul. Conclusion.

Far in the deep abysses of the main,

With hoary Nereus, and the watry train,
The mother goddess, from her crystal throne

Heard his load cries, and answered groan for groan.

Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xviii.

Nor second, he that rode sublime,
Upon the seraph wings of extacy,
The secrets of the abyss to spy.-Gray. Progress of Poesy.

ACADE/ME. Fr. Academie; It. AcACADEMY. cademia; Sp. Academia; ACADEMIAN. Lat. Academia; Gr. AκαACADEMICAL δημία. From Academus, an ACADEMICALLY. Athenian, in whose groves a ACADEMICIAN. sect of Grecian philosophers ACADEMICK, R. were accustomed to asACADEMICK, adj.semble. To them and their ACA'DEMIST. philosophy the words are still applied, and more generally to—

Any assembly or society of persons, where learning and philosophy are the proposed objects; to universities, and schools, public and private.

But ye withdrowen fro me this man, that he hath been nounshed in my studies or scholes of Eleatices, and of dchodemicis in Greece-Chaucer. Boecius, b. i.

From women's eyes this doctrine I deriue,
They sparcle still the right promethean fire,
They are the bookes, the arts, the achademes,
That shew, containe, and nourish all the world:
Ese none at all in ought proues excellent.

Shakespeare. Love's L. Lost, Act iv. sc. 3.

Eat, Pre, fre, what things these academicks are,
These bock-worms, how they look!
Beaumont and Fietcher. Elder Brother, Act ii. sc. 1.

Then straight comes Friscus, that neat gentleman,
That new discarded academian,

f he could ery Ergo in the school,
ghway with his huge judgement dares controul
Wrasse er he views-Marston. Scourge, ii. 6.

At Lampsie, in South Wales, after the academical life, he (Fox) had taken such a taste of the rural as I have heard

say that he could well have bent his mind to a retired co-Reguia Wottoniana, p. 162.

These doctrines I propose academically and for experiment inke.—Cabalutical Dialogues, (1682,) p. 17.

He that had only talk'd with him might find
Accademy in his mind;

Where wisdom master was, and fellows, all
Which we can good, which we can virtuous call.
Cowley. Elegy on John Littleton, Esq.

Wide through poetic scenes the genius roves,
Or wanders wild in eendemic groves:
Tas nature our society adores,
Where Tindal dictates, and Silenus snores.

Pope. Dunciad, b. iv.

Arndemical study may be comprised in two points: readIng sad meditation-Berkeley. Minute Philosopher, Dial. 1.

The academists do not refer merely to the lightness of fus creature's the sea-tortoise] body, but to a wonderful Mety and caution of this animal. Ray. On the Creation.

The males, whereby he [the hedge-hog] is enabled to Cris homself together, and gather up his whole body like a the Parisian academists describe to be a distinct carnous aucie-id. Ib.

In a conference of the French Academy, one of the acadedewired to have their opinion on the conduct of Paul Teese, who, though a painter of great consideration, had, "ary to the strict rules of art, in his picture of Perseus Andromeda, represented the principal figure in shade. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Discourse 4. Tahappy, by too short a view of things, you have been minase the completion of your academic courses for injection of your theologic studies. Warburton. Charge, 1761. Te redemics always talk of doubt and suspense of judgof danger in hasty determinations, of confining to www bounds the inquiries of the understanding, and doring all speculations which lie not within the of minen life and practice.

Hume. On the Understanding, s. 5.

And for I fele, it commeth alone of thee,
That to my harte these foes haue none accesce,
I dare them bid, Auoyde, wretches and flee;
The Lorde hath hearde the voyce of my complaynte.
Sir T. Wyat. Ps. 6.

He caused also the sayde goldsmyth to be attached as accessarye, and arreigned hym at the sessyons holden at Newgate, in London: where it was alleged, that they ought not by the lawe to enquyre of the accessarye before the principall.-Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 35.

This liberty is all that I request,

That vpon knowledge of my parentage,

I may haue welcome 'mongst the rest that woo,
And free accesse and fauour as the rest.

Shakespeare. Tam. of the Shrew, Act ii. sc. 1.
They anon,

With hundreds and with thousands, trooping came,
Attended all access was throng'd: the gates
And porches wide, but chief the spacious hall
Thick swarm'd.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii.

How safe, how easy, how happy a thing it is, to have to do with the King of Heaven; who is so pleased with our access, that he solicits suitors.-Hall. Contemplations.

Away, I prythee,

Do as I bid thee: There's no more to say;
Accessible is none but Milford way.

Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act iii. sc. 2.

I yet through-swomme the waues, that your shore binds Till wind and water threw me vp to it; When coming forth, a ruthlesse billow smit Against huge rocks, and an acceslesse shore My mangl'd body.-Chapman. Homer. Odyss. b. vii. He [Hotham] had taken upon him the government of Hull, without any apprehension, or imagination, that it would ever make accessary to rebellion.

Clarendon. Rebellion, b. viii.

These accessive commands have a use in them, even to raise up our endeavours to a higher pitch and strain, than if we were commanded only somewhat that were within our own power.

Hopkins. Works. Ser. 26.

This obvious reflection convinced me of the absurdity of the treaty of Hanover, in 1725, between France and England, to which the Dutch afterwards acceded.

Chesterfield. Letters. Let. 160. And vain were reason, courage, learning; all, Till power accede; till Tudor's wild caprice Smile on their cause.-Shenstone. Ruined Abbey. An accessory is said to be that which does accede unto some principal fact or thing in law.-Ayliffe. Par. Jur. Case.

Hiss for hiss return'd with forked tongue To forked tongue, for now were all transform'd Alike, to serpents all as accessories

To his bold riot.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. x.

To him Masistius: I have mark'd a post
Accessible and feeble in their line.

To me thy choicest cavalry commit.

Glover. Athenaid, b. xxiii.

Several of the most correct lists of our dramatick pieces exhibit the titles of plays, which are not to be met with in the completest collections. It is almost unnecessary to mention any other than Mr. Garrick's, which, curious and extensive as it is, derives its greatest value from its accessibility-Steevens. Advertis, to Shakespeare.

With longing eyes, and agony of mind,
The sailors view this refuge left behind;
Happy to bribe with India's richest ore
A safe accession to that barren shore.

Falconer. Shipwreck, c. 3. Ancient Troy, seated on an eminence at the foot of Mount Ida, overlooked the mouth of the Hellespont, which scarcely received an accession of waters from the tribute of those immortal rivulets, the Simois and Scamander.

Gibbon. Roman Empire, c. 17. An accessory is he who is not the chief actor in the offence, nor present at its performance, but is someway concerned therein, either before or after the fact committed. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 3.

ACCELERATE, v. ACCELERA'TION.

ACCELERATIVE.

Fr. Accélérer; It. Accelerare; Sp. Accelerar; Lat. Accelerare, (Ad

celer,) to hasten. See CELERITY.

To hasten, to quicken; to add to, or increase, the speed of.

The inhabitaūtes of Burdeaux sent to him [Talbot] messengers in the darke night, requiryng him to accelerate, and spede his iorney towarde their citie, enformyng him, that now the time was propice for his purpose: and tyme not taken, was labor mispent.-Hall. Hen. VI. an. 31.

Often times I haue seene in other, & haue proued by experience, that the small consideration passed, and the great acceleration in businesse nowe present, maketh great inconueniences in time to come.-Golden Booke, c. 12.

Down falling greatness, urged on apace,
Was followed hard by all disgraceful ways,
Now in th' point t' accelerate an end,
Whilst misery had no means to defend.

Daniel. Civil Wars, b. 3.

'Acceleration of time in works of Nature, may well be esteemed inter Magnalia Naturæ: and even divine miracles, accelerating of the time, is next to the creating of matter. Bacon. Nat. Hist. § 301.

Lo! from the dread immensity of space,
Returning with accelerated course,
The rushing comet to the sun descends.

Thomson. Autumn.

It is an attribute of many bodies to be moved; but motion may be in an endless variety of directions. It may be quick or slow, rectilineal or curvilineal; it may be equable, or accelerated, or retarded.-Reid. Ess. 4. c. 4.

The second sort of centripetal force is the accelerating force, which is measured by the velocity generated by it in a given time.-Maclaurin. Newton's Discoveries, b. ii. c. 1. He [Newton] explains very distinctly what he understands by the accelerative quantity of a centripetal force. Reid. Inquiry, c. 2. s. 9. Lat. Accendere, (Ad-cenere,) to kindle (qv.)

ACCE/ND, v. Į ACCE'NSION.

To set fire to; to inflame, to enlighten. Our devotions, if sufficiently accended, would, as theirs, burn up innumerable books of this sort.-Decay of Piety.

But this proceedeth from the sulphur of antimony, not enduring the society of salt-peter; for after three or four accensions, through a fresh addition of peter, the powder will flush no more; for the sulphur of the antimony is quite exhaled.-T. Brown. Vulg. Errours, b. ii. c. 5.

There are some opake bodies, as for instance the comets, which, besides the light that they may have from the sun, seem to shine with a light that is nothing else but an accension, which they receive from the sun, in their near approaches to it, in their respective revolutions. Locke. Elements of Nat. Philosophy.

A'CCENT, n. ACCENT, V.

ACCENTUAL.

ACCENTUATION.

Fr. Accent; It. Accente; Sp. Accento, (Ad-canere, cantum,) to sing.

To sing or sound, or speak to, or in unison with:-generally with a reference to certain rules of pronunciation.

Accentuation is applied to the mechanical marking of the accents in printed books.

Harry, whose tuneful and well-measur'd song
First taught our English music how to span
Words with just note and accent, not to scan
With Midas' ears, committing short and long.

Milton. Sonnet to Mr. H. Lawes. The bishoppe being thus determinately purposed touching the death of Edwarde the 2d, and warily providing for himselfe, if by any chance hee should bee accused thereof, craftily worketh that the authoritie which hee gave by writing, might seeme to bee taken expressely contrary to his meaning, by reason of accenting and pointing of the same.

Stow. Chronicle, Edw. II. an. 1326.

Let us prevent his anger by sentencing ourselves: or if we do not, let us follow the sad accents of the angry voice of God, and imitate his justice, by condemning that which God condemns.-Bp. Taylor. Of Repentance, c. 10. s. 9.

You are to know, that as the ill pronunciation or ill accenting of words in a sermon spoils it, so the ill carriage of your line, or not fishing even to a foot in a right place, makes you lose your labour.-Walton. Angler. Ab. Mark'd you his hollow accents at the parting? Qu. Moth. Graves in his smiles. King. Death in his bloodless hands.

Dryden. D. of Guise, Act ii. sc. 2. The only perceptible difference among our syllables, arises from some of them being uttered with that stronger percussion of voice, which we call accent.-Blair. Lect. 38.

Agreeably to this [short pronunciation of our words] is a remarkable peculiarity of English pronunciation, the throwing the accent farther back, that is, nearer the beginning of

As dauith seith, the blessidnesse of a man whom God acceptith, he ghyueth to him rightwyssnesse withouten werkis of the lawe, blessid ben thei, whose wickednessis ben forghouun and whos synnes ben hid.-Wiclif. Romayns, c. 4.

For he seith in tyme wel plesynge I haue herd thee, and in the dai of heelthe I haue helpid thee, lo now a time acceptable, lo now a dai of heelthe.-Id. Corynth. c. 6.

And petir openyde his mouth and seide, in treuthe I haue foundun that God is not acceptour of persones, but in ech folk he that dredith God and worchith rightwişnesse is accept to hym.-Id. Dedis, c. 10.

But glorie and honour and pees to ech man that worchith good thing to the iew first and to the Greek, for accepcioun of persones is not anentis God.-Id. Romayns, c. 2.

Much sweter she saith, & more acceptable,
Is drinke when it is stollen priuely
Then when it is taken in forme auowable.

Chaucer. The Remedie of Love.

Infernal furies, ye wreakers of wrong:
And Didos gods, who standes at point of death,
Receiue these wordes, and eke your heauy power
Withdraw from me, that wicked folk deserue:
And our request accept, we you beseche.

Surrey. Virgile, b. iv.

For he saith: I haue heard ye in a tyme accepted: & in ye daye of saluacion haue I suckered the. Beholde, nowe is yt accepted tyme; beholde nowe is that daye of saluacion. Bible. Lond. 1539.

If common wryters in trifleyng profane matiers dooe with muche high suit make meanes to obteine and use ye fauourable acceptacion of princes: how muche are we all bound to your highnesse!-Udal. Preface to the Kynges Maiestee.

And toward the education of your daughters,

I heere bestow a simple instrument,

And this small packet of Greeke and Latine bookes:
If you accept them, then their worth is great.

Cris.

Such with him

Finds no acceptance, nor can find; for how
Can hearts, not free, be tried whether they serve
Willing or no, who will, but what they must
By destiny, and can no other choose?

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v.

from above; or else they say no more than a woman, when she says a thing is so, because it is so; that is, her reason persuades her 'tis so. The other acception has sense in it. Selden. Table Talk.

The design of the revelation of the gospel, is to destroy superstition, and to restore the truth of religion, by correcting men's opinions and reforming their manners, by introducing to us repentance, and securing to us the acceptableness of it through the merits of Christ.-Clarke. Sermons, vol. i. "Friend," quoth the cur, "I meant no harm; Then why so captious-why so warm? My words in common acceptation, Could never give this provocation."

Gay. Fables, pt. ii. fab. 1. Virtue is better accepted when it comes in a pleasing form. Adventurer, No. 81. If the mind is at any time vacant from every passion and desire, there are still some objects that are more acceptable to us than others.-Reid. Ess. 4. c. 4.

If, when the bill becomes due, the accepter does not pay it as soon as it is presented, he becomes from that moment a bankrupt.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. ii. c. 2.

ACCEPTILATION, n. Fr. Acceptilation; Lat. of the lower ages, Acceptilatio. "A payment or an imaginary discharge of a debt."-Cotgrave. Applied in the civil law, to a form of verbal acquittance.

I neither am, neither shall be able to requite this your lordship's most special kindnesse and bountifull goodnes at any time, vnlesse I shoulde vse that ciuill remedie called in law acceptilation, which great debters especially, are accustomed to procure at the handes of their creditours.

Fox. Actes, &c. Bonner to Cromwell.

And then the antithesis must hold thus: by Christ comes justification to life, as by Adam the curse or the sin to the condemnation of death: but our justification which comes by Christ is by imputation and acceptilation, by grace and favour.-Bp. Taylor. Answer to the Bp. of Rochester. ACCE'RSE, v. Lat. Accersere, or Arcessere, (Ad-ciere,) to call together, to summon. One of the many affected Latinisms of the chronicler Hall.

The Erle of Warwicke thought it moste necessary for him to give hym [Edw. IV.] battaile with spede, and thereupon accersed and called together his army. Hall. Edw. IV. an. 10. Fr. Accident; It. Accidente; Sp. Accidente; Lat. Accidens; pres. part. of Acci

A'CCIDENT, adj. & n.
A'CCIDENCE, n.
ACCIDENTAL.
ACCIDENTALLY.
dere, (Ad-cadere,) to fall to.

That which falls, or happens, or occurs to: generally with a sub-audition, of something unforeseen, unexpected, unfortunate, unnecessary, without design, contrivance, or intention.

And sithen thou seest thine fleshly body in kindly power faile, how should than the accident of a thing ben in more surety of being than substantiall: wherefore thilke things that we cleape power, is but accident to the fleshlye body, and so they may not haue that surety in might, which wanteth in the substantiall body.

Chaucer. The Test. of Love, b. ii.

The fer cause is Almighty God, that is cause of alle thinges the ner cause is thin three enemies; the cause accidental was hate.-Id. The Tale of Melibeus.

He bosteth himself to make lawes and articles of owr faithe and to adde mō sacraments to them then cryst made, and to consecrate and to make the body of cryste, to sende awaye the substance of the bread, the accidents as the whigtnes, rowndes, tast & other qualities & quãtities remayning.-Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 7.

Wherfore sithe in all myne authors, I finde no matter, "either greatly necessarie, or muche conuenient to be spoken of concernyng any high enterprise: I therfore, leauyng bothe the nacions, daily studiyng how to greue, and gain of the other, will turne againe to other thynges accidentall whiche chaunced in this XII yere.-Hall. Hen. VI. an. 12.

If all the yeare were playing holidaies,

To sport, would be as tedious as to worke;
But when they seldome come, they wisht-for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.

Shakespeare. 1 Part Hen. IV. Act i. sc. 2.

And not a man for being simply man,
Hath any honour; but honour'd for those honours
That are without him; as place, riches, and fauour,
Prizes of accident, as oft as merit.

Id. Tro. and Cres. Act ii. sc. 3.
Jul. -With an unheedful eye,
An accidental view, as men see multitudes,
That the next day dare not precisely say
They saw that face, or that, amongst 'em all.
Beaumont & Fletcher. Maid in the Mill, Act v. sc. 2.

Those atomes, or indivisible bodies, having an accidentary and inconsiderate motion, stirring continually, and most strictly happen many of them to encounter one another and meet together. Holland. Plutarch. Morals, p. 662.

Which tardy proficience [in learning the Latin tongue] may be attributed to several causes in particular, the making two labours of one, by learning first the accedence, then the grammar in Latin, e'er the language of those rules be understood.-Milton. Accedence commenced Grammar. Other points no less concern the commonwealth, though but accidentally depending upon the former. Spenser. State of Ireland.

If one of the legs of a man be found shorter than the other, the man is deformed; because there is something wanting to complete the whole idea we form of a man; and this has the same effect in natural faults, as maiming and mutilation produce from accidents.

Burke. Sublime and Beautiful.

Explore thro' earth and heaven, thro' sea and skies,
The accidental graces as they rise;

And while each present form the fancy warms,
Swift on thy tablets fix it's fleeting charms.

Mason. Art of Painting.

He will find he has no other idea of it [pure substance] at all, but only a supposition of he knows not what support of such qualities, which are capable of producing simple ideas in us; which qualities are commonly called Accidents. Locke. On Human Understanding, b. ii. c. 23

Civil society was instituted either with the purpose o attaining all the good, of every kind, it was even acciden tally capable of producing; or, only of some certain good which the institutors, unconcerned with, and unattentiv to, any other, had in view.-Warburton. Alliance, b.i. c.4 ACCIPITRARY, n. A catcher of birds of prey a faulconer.

To heare an accipitrary relate againe, how he went for in a cleere, calme, and sun-shine evening, about an hou before the sunne did usually maske himselfe, unto the rive where finding of a mallard, he whistled off his faulcon, & Drake. Shakesp. & his Times. From Nash. Quatern ACCITE, v. Lat. Acci-re, itum, (Ad-ciere to go or send for; to summon. See CITE.

Mine old dere enemy, my froward maister,
Afore that quene I causde to be acited,
Which holdeth the diuine part of our nature.

Sir T. Wyat. Complaint to Reas

When the place was redy, the Kyng and the Quene accited by Docter Sampson to appere before the Legates the forenamed place, the twentie and eight day of May. Hall. Hen. VIII. an.

A nobler man, a brauer warrior;
Liues not this day within the city walles.
He by the senate is accited home
From weary warres against the barbarous Gothes.
Shakespeare. Tit. And. Act i. s

But in my deske, what was there to accite
So ravenous and vast an appetite?
B. Jonson. Execration upon Vul
ACCLAIM, v. Fr. Acclamation; It.
ACCLAIM, n. clamare, Acclamazione;
ACCLAMATION. Aclamar, Aclamation;
Acclamare, (Ad-clamare,) to cry out, or shout
Applied to noisy and tumultuous express
of assent, choice, approbation.

Justly did thy followers hold the best ornaments o earth worthy of no better, than thy treading upon.happily, did they think their backs disrobed for thy How gladly, did they spend their breath in acclaiming Bp. Hall. Contemp. Procession to the Te -Gladly then he mix'd Among those friendly powers, who him receiv'd With joy and acclamations loud, that one, That of so many myriads fallen, yet one, Return'd, not lost.-Milton. Par. Lost, b. vi.

The king [Lewis XIV.] himselfe, like a young A was in a sute so cover'd with rich embrodry, that one perceive nothing of the stuff under it; he went almo whole way with his hat in hand, saluting the lady acclamators who had fill'd the windows with their i and the aire with Vive le Roy.-Evelyn. Memoirs, an.

The herald ends: the vaulted firmament,
With loud acclaims and vast applause is rent.
Dryden. Palamon &

Angus. Thou shalt be crown'd:-
An iron crown intensely hot shall gird
Thy hoary temples; while the shouting crowd
Acclaims thee king of traitors.

Smollett. Regicide, Act

An amiable accomplished prince ascends the throne under the tappiest of all auspices; the acclamations and united affections of his subjects.-Junius. Lett. 12.

ACCLIVITY, n. S. Lat. Acclivis, to a cliff.)

(Adclivus,

That which slopes upwards; which rises or ascends.

The men (of the Alps] leaving their wives and younger ehren below, de, not without some difficulty, ciamber up the acclivities, dragging their kine with them. Ray. On the Creation.

The example of our Saviour [was] accommodated for all men: especially conducting them in the hardest and Toughest parts of the way leading to bliss, the acclivities or asperities of duty, self-denial, &c. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 42.

ACCLOY, or CLOY. Cloy is derived by Skinner from Claudere. Junius prefers Clog; which Skinner suspects is from Log. See CLOY. ACLOTE, r. (says Tyrwhitt) may perhaps mean To coy; to embarrass with superfluity."

But better is, that a wights tong rest

Than entermete him of soch doing

Of which he neither rede can nor sing

And who so it doth, full foule him self acloyeth
Fer office vncommitted oft anoyeth.

Chaucer. Assembly of Foules.

No man of what condition so euer he be, except he haunt Seats of armes or other learning in some ordinarie exercise, shall hane his botie lustie & his spirit quicke: but shall be acked in all other things, and wander from street to street as a vagabond-The Golden Booke, c. 24.

The motidie moss which thee accloyeth
My sinamon smell too much annoyeth.

Spenser. Shepherd's Calendar. February.

As then no winde at all there blew,
No swelling cloude accloid the aire;
The skie. Like grasse [glasse] of watchet hew,
Redected Phabus golden haire.

Spenser. El. upon Astrophile.

For they that escape best in the temperate zone, would be with long nights very tedious, no less than forty ws, and those that now never have their night above twenty-four hours, as Friesland island, the furthest parts asiaan! Norway, would be deprived of the sun, above ahundred and thirty days together. Ray. On the Creation. ACCOIL, or Con. See COIL. ACCOL, r. To embrace round the neck (estam). See COLL.

This hazing said, she left me all in teres, And ating much to speake: but she was gone, Andly fed into the weightlesse aire. The nigh: I with mine armes taccoll her neck: Those my hand's vaine holde thimage escape Like ible windes, and like the fleing dreame. Surrey. Virgil. Enæis, b. ii.

It is true, the constitution of some faculties and organs of sensibles, is more accommodate to their fabrick and use than the like organs of man would be to the use of brutes. Hale. Origination of Mankind, p. 53. Of all these Moses his wisdome held fit to give an account accommodately to the capacity of the people. More. Def. of Lit. Cabbala, c. 3.

I have now shewn the fitness and suitableness of the

Gospel to the end for which it was designed, in that it is furnished with all those arguments of credibility that may beget assent in rational persons; but its aptness and accommodateness to the great purpose of men's salvation may further be demonstrated. Hallywell. Sav. of Souls, p. 80.

Insects are so acted and directed by nature, as to cast their eggs in such places as are most accommodate for the exclusion of their young, and where there is food ready for them so soon as they be hatcht.

Ray. On the Creation.

I pretend not to any such illuminations. I am neither prophet nor prophetick prelate, but account it enough for my purpose, if I can bring my present business and the text together, not by design, but accommodation. South, vol. v. Ser. 2.

Socinus's main design (or pretence at least) was to bring all the mysteries of Christianity to a full accommodation with the general notions of man's reason; and so far the design was, no doubt, fair and laudable enough, had it kept within the bounds of a sober prosecution.-Id. Ib. Ser. 3.

And this sense is very accommodate and proper to this expression of our Saviour, and to the prayer of the penitent thief.-Watts. On Separate State of Souls, § 3.

As there is infinite variety in the circumstances of persons, things, actions, times and places, so we must be furnished with such general rules as are accommodable to all this variety by a wise judgment and discretion.

Id. Logick, pt. ii. c. 5. Though the ultimate design of these parables, and the coming of Christ mentioned therein, refer to the great day of judgment, yet, both the duties, and the warnings, which are represented in these parables, seem to be very accommodable to the hour of our death.-Id. Discourses.

Heaven speed the canvass, gallantly unfurl'd
To furnish and accommodate a world,
To give the pole the produce of the sun,
And knit th' unsocial climates into one!

To go or come together with; to follow or attend upon, to consort, to associate.

Lo if thou loue her, loue eke thine honestie,
Be she not ydell; for what woll betide,
If she sit ydell; of very necessitie

Her minde woll search ferre and eke wide,
Namely if she be not accompanide-
How accompanied, not with yong men
But with maidens I meane or women.

Chaucer. Remedie of Loue.

So shall mine eyes in payne accompany my hart,
That were the guides, that did it lead of loue to feel the
smart.-Wyatt. Complaint of the Absence of his Loue.
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad;
Silence accompanied; for beast and bird,
They to their grassy couch, those to their nests
Were slunk.-Milton. Par. Lost. b. iv.

By our traffic into foreign countries, tho' we many times bring home light and frivolous toys, yet they are often accompanied with gold and silver, both in coin and bullion. Spelman. Dialogue concerning the Coin of the Kingdom. Well must she sing of whom I make my choice, And with her lute accompany her voice.

Congreve. Ovid. Art of Love.

In a mind truly virtuous, the scorn of vice is always accompanied with the pity of it.-Spectator, No. 79.

If we consider the moon as another habitable earth, then the appearances of it will be altogether exact and beautiful, and may argue unto us that it is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it.

Wilkins. Math. and Phil. Works, b. i,

Or grant, that with extreme surprise,
We find ourselves at sixty, wise;
And twenty pretty things are known,

Of which we can't accomplish one.-Prior. Alma, can. 3.

When I went abroad, I first went to the Hague, where gaming was much in fashion, and where I observed that I many people of shining rank and character gamed too. was then young enough, and silly enough, to believe that gaming was one of their accomplishments.

I'll make a proof, how I advance in My new accomplishment of dancing.

ACCOMPT, n.
Acco'UNT, v.
Acco'UNT, n.

ACCOUNTABLE.
Acco'UNTANT, adj.
Acco'UNTANT, n.
ACCOUNTING.

Chesterfield, Letters.

Churchill. Ghost, b. iii. See COUNT. Ad-conputare, to reckon with. To reckon, to number, to compute, to calculate, to tell.

To reckon, or calculate, to give or assign, to state or explain, the cause, reason, or consequence, the value, profit, or advantage.

To value, to esteem, to regard.
Liste & I salle rede the parcelles what amountes,
If any man in dede wille keste in accountes.

R. Brunne, p. 185.

Men that ben ryche Aren a countable to Crist. and to the kyng of hevene. Id. p. 218. And many of hem that sueden curiouse thingis broughten togidre bookis and brennyden hem bifore alle men, and whanne the prisis of the weren accountid thei foundun money of fifti thousynde pens, so strongli the word of god wexide and was conferinyd-Wiclif. Dedis, c. 19.

And thus ben thei the worst of all

Of hem, whiche vnto wrath fall,
In dede both, and eke in thought.
For thei accompten their wrath nought,

But if there be shedynge of blood.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii.

And whan thei weren both alofte,

This Icarus began to mounte,

And of the counseill non accompte

He set, whiche his fader taught,

Till that the sonne his wynges caught.-Id. Ib. b. iv. For this cause chiefly we thought it good, to yelde up an accoumple of our faith in writing.

Jewel. Defence of the Apologie.

Cut off euen in the blossomes of my sinne,
No reckoning made, but sent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head.

Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act i. sc. 5.

Adur. I make my judge my jury; be accountant,
Whether, with all the eagerness of spleen

Of a suspicious rage can plead, thou hast
Enforc'd the likelihood of scandal.

Ford. Lady's Trial, Act iv. sc. 2.

I know others have treated already of the same subject, and given a laudable account of the City of London, but gold may often be told over without fouling the fingers.

Howell. Londinopolis, Dedication.

An humble man looks upon all his plenty and prosperity, not as his own, or the reward of his desert, but as the depositum of the Great Master of the family of heaven and earth; talents entrusted to him as a steward, and an accomptant to employ for his master's use, service, and honour.-Hale. Contem. Humility.

The opinion of more world's than one has in ancient times been accounted a heresy.

Bp. Wilkins. Math, and Phil. Works, b. i.

The Presbyterian ministers clamorously assert in their sermons and writings the privileges of kings from all accountableness, or (to speak in the language of that time) non-resistance and passive obedience to be the doctrine of all the reformed churches.-Wood. Fasti Oxon. Milton.

This method, faithfully observed, must keep a man from breaking, or running behind hand in his spiritual estate; which, without frequent accountings, he will hardly be able to prevent.-South. Ser. 8.

To love's account they plac'd their death of late,
And now transfer the sad account to fate.

Parnell. Elysium.

We are held Accountable; and God, some future day, Will reckon with us roundly for th' abuse, Of what he deems no mean or trivial trust. Cowper. Task, b. vi. The exhortation to masters, to keep in view their own subjection and accountableness, was no less seasonable. Paley. Moral Philos. b. iii. c. 12.

For this purpose, the first point to be endeavoured after is, to impress upon children the idea of accountableness, that is, to accustom them to look forward to the consequences of their actions in another world; which can only be brought about by the parents visibly acting with a view of those consequences themselves.-Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 10.

ACCORD, v. Acco'RD, n.

ACCO'RDABLE.

ACCORDANCE.

ACCORDANCY.

ACCO'RDANT.

Fr. Accorder; It. Accordar; Sp. Acordar, (Ad-cor,) to the heart. In Wiclif, where the common version has "with one accord," we find "with oo will, with oo herte." 2 Philip. 4 Acts.

ACCO'RDING, adj. ACCORDINGLY. To act with one heart or mind; to act suitably to, in harmony, unison, conformity, or agreement with; to agree, to conform, to comply, to consent, to concur, to grant. Hii caste awey sseld & suerd, & turnde al to loue, An byclupte hem & custe, & her fole in eyther syde, Tho hii seye hem acorded, vor joye loude hii cryde. R. Gloucester, p. 309.

Tho hii were to thys batayle prest in ethher syde,
Some frend hym bythogte bet, & bytuene hem gonne ryde
And made acord bytuene hem, that the kyng adde all
that lond.-Id. p. 237.

For in the dai suynge he apperide to hem chidynge, and he accordide hem in pees and seide, men ghe ben britheren, whi noyen ghe ech othire?-Wiclif. Dedis, c. 7.

Nyle ghe bere the ghok with unfeithful men, for what parting of rightwysnesse with wickidnesse? or what felouschipe of light with derknessis? and what according of crist to belial?-Id. 2 Corynth. c. 6.

Of instruments, of strings in accord
Heard I so play, a rauishing swetnesse
That God, that maker is of all and Lord
Ne heard neuer better, as I gesse :
Therewith a wind, vnneth it might be lesse
Made in the leaues grene, and noise soft
Accordant to the foules song on loft.

Chaucer. The Assemblie of Foules.
Where she sat in a fresh greene laurey tree
On the further side euen right by me
That gaue so passing a delicious smell
According to the eglantere full well.

Id. The Floure and the Leafe.

Throughout the world if it were sought,
Faire words ynough a man shall finde;
They be good chepe, they cost right nought,
Their substance is but only winde:

But well to say, and so to mene,
That swete accord is seldom sene.

Sir T. Wyat. Dissembling Wordes. Charlys bare him so knyghtly that he slewe of the Paganys an excedynge nombre, to be accordaunt with reason. Fabyan, c. 147. But moste accordyngly it [the kyngdome of West Saxon] shuld be rekened from the first yere of Cerdicus to the laste yere of Aluredus, for he made one monarchy of al vii kyngdomes.-Id. c. 105.

Eng. If duke of Burgonie, you would the peace Whose want giues growth to th' imperfections Which you haue cited: you must buy that peace With full accord to all our iust demands, Whose tenures and particular effects You haue enschedul'd briefely in your hands. Shakespeare. Hen. V. Act v. sc. 2. Cleopatra, the daughter of Philip, and sister to Alexander the Great, being incensed against Antigonus, of her own accord, inclined to Ptolomei, and left Sardis, to go unto him.-Usher. Annals, A.M. 3696.

They have busily noted the order and course of times, which even to this day, many have curiously sought to correct, and could yet never discuss it, nor accord all contrarieties and manifest repugnances in the same. North. Plutarch, p. 78.

So can they both themselues full eath perswade
To faire accordance, and both faults to shade,
Eyther embracing other louingly,
And swearing faith to eyther on his blade,
Neuer thence-forth to nourish enmity,
But eyther others cause to maintaine mutually.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 8.

But wooe her, gentle Paris, get her heart;
My will to her consent is but a part;
And shee agree, within her scope of choise,
Lyes my consent, and faire according voice.

Shakespeare. Rom. and Jul. Act i. sc. 2.
Because the Father, to whom in heaven supreme
Kingdom, and power, and glory appertain,
Hath honour'd me according to his will,
Therefore to me their doom he hath assign'd.

Milton. Par. Lost, b. viii.

Lap. But I hope your Lordshippe thinkes not him a souldier. Ber. I do assure you my Lord he is very great in knowledge and accordinglie valiant. Shakespeare. All's Well, Act ii. sc. 5.

Whither also came Hubert de Burgh, escaped out of prison, and joins them; [the confederate lords; the earls of Chester, Glocester, and others,] taking intermutual oaths,

That no one without other should make their accord.
Baker. Chronicle, an. 1235.
The heroes pray'd, and Pallas, from the skies,
Accords their vow, succeeds their enterprize.

Pope. Hom. Il. b. x. If men are treated according to reason, they must be treated according to what they are; the virtuous, the just, the compassionate, &c. as such, and the vitious, unjust, cruel, &c. according to what they are.

Wollaston. Religion of Nature, s. 5. Christ had told his disciples, that, when he should "be taken from them, then they should fast." Accordingly, the primitive Christians used to fast oft. Burnet. History of the Reformation.

It strikes me as a very observable instance of providential kindness to man, that such an exact accord has been contrived between his ear, and the sounds with which, at least in a rural situation, it is almost every moment visited.

Cowper. Let. 172.

Yes, magic lyre! now all complete

Thy slender frame responsive rings;
While kindred notes, with undulation sweet,
Accordant wake from all thy vocal strings.
Mason. Ode on Eolus' Harp.

Analogical reasoning is not, in all cases, to be rejected. It may afford a greater or a less degree of probability, aecording as the things compared are more or less similar in their nature.-Reid. On the Powers of the Mind, Ess. 1, c. 4.

ACCO'ST, or ACCOAST, ACCO'STABLE. the Lat. Costa.

Fr. Accoster; It. Accostare; Sp. Acostar. Latus lateri jungere, says Skinner, from And Cotgrave, to join side to side. See COST or COAST. Barrow uses Discost, in opp.

To go near to, to go or stay near or close to, the coast or side of; to approach; and then, To speak to, to direct the discourse to, to address.

Ne is there hauke which mantleth her on pearch,
Whether high towering or accoasting low,
But I the measure of her flight doe search,

And all her pray, and all her diet know:
Such be our ioyes which in these forrests grow.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 2. Lapland hath since been often surrounded (so much as accosts the sea) by the English. Fuller. Worthies, Derbyshire. The French are a free, debonnair, accostable people; both men and women.-Howell, b. ii. Let. 12.

horrors haunted him night and day. He thus accosts the He had no sooner perpetrated his crime, than a thousand devil: "Oh wretch!" says he, "it is thou which hast destroyed me!"-Guardian, No. 148.

Now off at sea, and from the shallows clear,
As far as human voice could reach the ear,
With taunts the distant giant I accost,
"Hear me, O Cyclop! Hear, ungracious host!"

Pope. Hom. Od. b. x.

If you would convince a person of his mistake, accost him not upon that subject when his spirit is ruffled or dis composed with any occurrences of life; and especially when he has heated his passions in the defence of a contrary opinion. Watts. Improvement of the Mind, pt. ii. c. 3.

As thus I sing, a solemn sound
Accosts mine ear; I look'd around,
And lo! an ancient sage

Hard by an ivy'd oak stood near,

That fenc'd the cave, where many a year

Had been his hermitage.-Mickle. Ode on Knowledge. ACCOUNT. See AccoMPT.

ACCOUPLE, or COUPLE. See COUPLE Fr. Accoupler. To join, unite, yoke together.

The youg galantes of Frauce had coates garded with on colour, cut in x or xii partes very richely to beholde: an so al the Englishme accoupled theselues with the Frenc men louingly togather, and so roade to Lodon. Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 9

King Charles sent a solemne ambassage to treat a peac and league with the king, accoupling it with an article i the nature of a request.-Bacon. Hist. of Hen. VII. p. 81 ACCOURAGE. See COURAGE. Fr. Accor rager, to hearten, embolden: used as we now us Encourage.

Aftir two yeres Philometer obtayned helpe of the Romi to recouer his lost cities, and thus accouraged of the R mans he expelled his auuncles syriake hoste and armye. Joye. The Exposicion of Daniel, c. 1

That forward pair she ever would asswage,
When they would striue due reason to exceed ;
But the same froward twaine would accourage,
And of her plenty adde unto their need.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c.
ACCOURTING, or COURTING. See COURT
Whilst she herselfe thus busily did frame
Seemely to entertaine her new-come guest,
Newes heereof to her other sisters came
Who all this while were at their wanton rest
Accourting each her friend with lavish feast.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. ACCOUTRE, v. Fr. Accoutrer. Sa ACCOUTREMENT. Cuth, is the pp. of Cunna to know. Acunnan is, to try, to prove.

To accoutre, then, may be, to provide with arm tried, proved: but subsequently applied generall To provide with dress, trappings, ornamen equipments.

Noe jun. What fouler object in the world than to see a yeung, fair, handsome beauty, unhandsomely dighted, and moongruently accouired?

Massinger. Fatal Dowry, Act iv. sc. 1.

Ile hold thee any wager
When we are both accoutered like yong men,
Le prose the prettier fellow of the two,
And weare my dagger with the brauer grace.

Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act iii. sc. 4. Eerie thing about you. [should] demonstrate a carelesse desolation; but you are no such man; you are rather point device in your accoutrements. Id. As You Like It, Act iii. sc. 2.

When we survey the bare out-works of this our globe; when we see so vast a body accoutered with so noble a furmoure of air, light, and gravity; with every thing in short, that is necessary to the preservation and security of the gobe itself—what else can be concluded, but that all was made with manifest design? Derham. Physico-Theology, b.i. c. 5.

And canst thou believe, that most heroical and omnipotent infriteness of his, will abridge a follower of such poor tayes as the accoutrements of this life are ?—Feltham. Res. 11. With such accoutrements, with such a form, Much like a porpoise, just before a storm, Onward he rese.-Churchill. Independence. ACCREDIT, v. Fr. Accréditer; It. AccreSitare; Sp. Acreditar Lat. Accredere, (Ad- | credere,) to trust to.

To give trust or confidence to: to give that consequence or importance which arises from trast or confidence.

I am better pleased, indeed, that he [the Analytical Rerener, censures some things, than I should have been amist commendation; for his censure will (to use the new diplomatic term) accredit his praises. Cowper. Let. 43.

St. John dwells upon it with earnest reiterated asseve an, as a thing (the water and the blood] so wonderful, the explicit testimony of an eye-witness was requisite to make a credible: and yet of great importance to be acomodates as a main foundation of faith. Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 9.

Having received my instructions and letters of accrediAt from the earl of Hillsborough, secretary of state, on Le 17th day of April, 1750, I took my departure for Portsmouth, koc.—Mem. of R. Cumberland, vol. i. p. 417.

ACCRESCENT.

ACCRETION.

ACCRETITE.

Fr. Accroître; It. Accrescere; Sp. Acrecentar; Lat. Accrescere, (Ad

Jerrere, à creare,) to grow to.
Growing to, adding to, augmenting.

We may trace a gradual increase of the circulation of it, Tetative Efe from the mere inert parts, as it were, of Tart to the trees, and shrubs, and plants, and flowers, usse living growths are more and more conspicuous, daily wcrested with new appearances of accrescent variety and &neration — Shuckford. Creation and Fall of Man, p. 90.

these free degrees of interiour or spirituall mortificaThe first is duty, the secound is counsell, and the third a perfection, we sinne, if we have not the first, we are in without the second, but without the third we cannot Perfect as our heavenly father is; but shall have more ane infirmities to be ashamed of, then can be excused TÜR GOETGIERCics and condition of our nature.

Bp. Taylor. Great Exemplar. pt. i. § 10.

Those plates, which were formerly filled with wood, have Wind the fallen trees three, four, or five foot deep in the sound by an decretion or cover of earth, derived to them startimes by alluvions or floods.

Hale. Origin of Mankind, p. 96.

That we call a fayrie stone, and is often found in gravel fmongst us, being of an hemispherical figure, hath five wines arising from the center of its basis, which if no *s distract them, do commonly concur and meet in you thereof-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 1. The motion be very slow, we perceive it not. Thus Wagong up from their mother earth; and we can no Som their accretive motion, then we can their most wden case-Glencil. The Fanity of Dogmat. c. 9.

ACCROACH, v. Fr. Accrocher.

See EN

CROACH, and the quotation from Blackstone.

In semblant (as men sayne) is gile,
And that was proued thilke while.
The ship, whiche wende his helpe accroche,

Drofe all to peces on the roche.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii. p. 53.

And fire, whan it to towe approcheth,
To hym anone the strength accrocheth,
Till with his hete it be deuoured,

The towe ne may not be souccoured.-Id. Ib. b.v.

And [they had] pursued those misdemeanors and attainder of them by force, because they could not be attainted by processe of law, because that the said Sir Hughes had accroached to them the royall power in divers manner. Prynne. The Sov. Power of Parl. & Kingdoms, pt. iii. p. 34. The accroaching, or attempting to exercise, royal power [a very uncertain charge] was in the 21 Edw. III. held to be treason in a knight of Hertfordshire, who forcibly assaulted and detained one of the king's subjects till he paid him 907.: a crime, it must be owned, well deserving of punishment; but which seems to be of a complexion very different from that of treason.-Blackstone. Comment. b. iv. c. 6. p. 76. Fr. Accru, Accroître; It. Accrescere; Sp. Acrecentar. See ACCRESCENT.

ACCRUE, or ACCRE/W, v. ACCRU'MENT.

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To grow; to add to; to augment, or increase the number or quantity of; to arise, or spring from; to be produced or derived from, in addition, or accession.

But toward th' end sir Arthegall renewed

His strength still more, but she still more decrewed. At last his luckless hand he heav'd on high, Having his forces all in one accrewed, And therewith stroke at her so hideouslie, That seemed nought but death wote be her destinie. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 6.

I cannot imagine what accruements will hence [from ex tempore prayer] come to the publick: it may be, some advantages may be to the private interests of men. Bp. Taylor. Set Forms of Liturgie.

In the foot of this account we shall not find any great affluence of temporal accruments. Id. Great Exemplar, pt. ii. § 5. We must love them [our wives] as dearly as one of our

limbs, & be as kind to them as we are to ourselves; for, indeed, in being affectionate to them, we make them so to us, and the advantage finally accrews to ourselves, so that we must love them for our own sakes.

Comber. Companion to the Temple, pt. 4.

Good men consult their piety as little as their judgment and experience, when they admit the great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press, yet indulge themselves in peevish or passionate exclamations against the abuses of it.-Junius. Letters, Pref. Know, your arrears with every hour accrue, For mercy shown, while wrath is justly due.

Cowper. Conversation.

Lat. Accubatio, Accumbens, pres. part. of Accumbere, (Ad-cum

To lie or lean to, to incline, to recline. See INCUMBENT.

Of their accumbing places, the one was called Stibadion and Sigma, carrying the figure of an half moon, and of an uncertain capacity, whereafter it received the name of Hexaclinon.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 6.

"Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples whom Jesus loved;" which gesture will not so well agree unto position of sitting, but is naturall, and cannot be avoided in the laws of accubation.-Id. Ib.

What a pennance must be done by every accumbent, in sitting out the passage through all these dishes; what a task the stomach must be put to in the concoction of so many mixtures!-Bp. Hall. Occasional Meditations, No. 81.

The Roman recumbent, or, more properly, accumbent posture in eating, was introduced after the first Punic war.

ACCUMULATE, v. ACCUMULATE, adj. ACCUMULATION. ACCUMULATIVE.

ACCUMULATOR.

ther.

Arbuthnot. On Coins. Fr. Accumuler; It. Accumulare; Sp. Acumular; Lat. Accumulare, (Ad-cumulus, a heap,) to heap toge

To heap together; to increase; to collect, or gather together.

By thys meanes and pellecy thys Alexander gat, accumulated, and heaped vp a great summe of money. Hall. Hen. VII. an. 16.

Again, greatness of relief, accumulated in one place, doth rather invite a swarm and surcharge of poor, than relieve those that are naturally bred in that place. Bacon. Works, vol. ii. p. 233.

Great Strafford! worthy of that name, though all
Of thee should be forgotten, but thy fall,
Crush'd by imaginary treason's weight,
Which too much courage did accumulate.

Denham. Earl of Strafford's Trial and Death. The greatness of sins is, in most instances, by extension and accumulation.-Bp. Taylor. Polemical Discourses.

He did conceive that it was against the first principles of nature, and false, that an heap or accumulation should be, and not be, of homogeneous things; and therefore that which in its first being is not treasonable, can never confer to make up an accumulative treason.

State Trials, vol. iii. Strafford's Trial.

The first of these last three was a compounder, and the last an accumulator.-Wood. Fasti Oxon. vol. ii. p. 230.

Injuries may fall upon the passive man; yet without revenge there would be no broils and quarrels, the great accumulators and multipliers of injuries.-Decay of Piety.

The speculatist, when he has carefully observed how much may be performed by a single hand, calculates, by a very easy operation, the force of thousands, and goes on accumulating power till resistance vanishes before it. Adventurer, No. 45. Lat. Accurare, (Ad-cura,) to do with care.

A'CCURACY. A'CCURATE. A'CCURATELY. A'CCURATENESS.

Care, caution; and, consequently, correctness, free

dom from fault or error.

The knowledge of one action, or one simple idea, is oftentimes sufficient to give me the notion of a relation but to. the knowing of any substantial being, an accurate collection of sundry ideas is necessary.

Locke. On the Human Understanding, b. ii. c. 25. That the earth, speaking according to philosophical accurateness, doth move upon its own poles, and in the ecliptic, is now the received opinion of the most learned and skilful mathematicians.-Ray. On the Creation.

So that it seems much more colourable to infer the novelty of the Hebrew points, from the accurateness, than from the injudiciousness of their contrivance. Wilkins. Real Charac. pt. iii. c. 12.

Thus nicely trifling, accurately dull,
How one may toil, and toil-to be a fool.

Mallet. Verbal Criticism. Let us consider whether logic is, or may be made, subservient to any good purpose. Its professed end is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy.-Reid. Analysis of Aristotle's Logic.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we every where find of his wisdom who made it.-Burke. Sublime and Beautiful.

ACCURSE. See CURSE. A. S. Curs-ian; To doom to punishment, to execrate.

Hii mygte acors the fole quene, that Seynt Edward slou. R. Gloucester, p. 296.

He acorsede alle thulke men, that he hadde uorth ibrougt. Id. p. 474.

Drede ys at the laste Lest Crist in hus constorie of gow a corse menye. Piers Plouhman, p. 7.

But though we or an aungel of heuene prechide to ghou bisidis that that we han prechid to ghou, be he acursid, as I haue seid bifore, and now eftsoone I seie, if ony preche to ghou bisidis that that ghe han undirfongen, he be acursid. Wiclif. Galathies, c. 1.

Neuerthelesse though we oure selues, or an angell from heuen, preache any other gospel unto you, the that which we han preached vnto you holde him as a cursed. As I sayde before, so saie I now agayne, yf anye manne preache any other thynge vnto you, then that ye haue receiued, holde him accursed.-Bible. Lond. 1551.

O death alas, why nilt thou do me dey
Acursed by that day which that nature
Shope me to be a liues creature.

Chaucer. Troilus, b. iv. F. I am accurst to rob in that theefe's company that rascall hath remoued my horse, and tied him I know not where.-Shakespeare. 1 Part Hen. IV. Act ii. sc. 2.

Fast by, hanging in a golden chain,
This pendant world, in bigness as a star
Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.
Thither, full fraught with mischievous revenge,
Accurs'd, and in a cursed hour he flies.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii.

Heavy, O Lord! on me thy judgments lie,
Accurst I am, while God rejects my cry;
O'erwhelm'd in darkness and despair I groan,
And every place is Hell, for God is gone.-Prior. Ps. 88.