ACA To whom Satan turning, boldly: "Ye powers And spirits of this nethermost abyss, The secrets of your realm."-Milton. Par. Lost, b. ii. Let first the mystagogical illuminations of the great Areopagite, and the ascetike discipline of the anachoretical Inhabitants of the wilderness, purifie thy eye; before thou attemptest to speak, or to aim at the discovery of these abisming depths.-Sir K. Digby. On the Soul. Conclusion. Far in the deep abysses of the main, With hoary Nereus, and the watry train, Nor second, he that rode sublime, The secrets of the abyss to spy.-Gray. Progress of Poesy. Fr. Academie; It. Accademia ; Sp. Academia; Lat. Academia; Gr. Axa8nua. From Academus, an Athenian, in whose groves a sect of Grecian philosophers aswere accustomed to semble. To them and their philosophy the words are still applied, and more generally to ACADEMICALLY. ACADEMICIAN. ACADEMICK, n. ACADEMICK, adj. ACA'DEMIST. to Any assembly or society of persons, where learning and philosophy are the proposed objects; universities, and schools, public and private. But ye withdrowen fro me this man, that he hath been nourished in my studies or scholes of Eleatices, and of Achademicis in Greece.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. i. From women's eyes this doctrine I deriue, Shakespeare. Love's L. Lost, Act iv. sc. 3. Eust. Fye, fye, what things these academicks are, Who, for he could cry Ergo in the school, At Lampsie, in South Wales, after the academical life, he [Essex] had taken such a taste of the rural as I have heard him say that he could well have bent his mind to a retired course.-Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, p. 162. These doctrines I propose academically and for experiment sake.-Cabalistical Dialogues, (1682,) p. 17. He that had only talk'd with him might find Where wisdom master was, and fellows, all Cowley. Elegy on John Littleton, Esq. Wide through poetic scenes the genius roves, Academical study may be comprised in two points: read- The academists do not refer merely to the lightness of this creature's [the sea-tortoise] body, but to a wonderful Lagacity and caution of this animal. Ray. On the Creation. The muscles, whereby he [the hedge-hog] is enabled to draw himself together, and gather up his whole body like a ball, the Parisian academists describe to be a distinct carnous muscle.-Id. Ib. In a conference of the French Academy, one of the acade- The academics always talk of doubt and suspense of judg- Hume. On the Understanding, s. 5. ACC } } adj. Fr. Accéder; It. Accedere; Lat. Accedere, (Ad-cedere,) to go to. To go, or come to; to approach, with assent or favour, assistance, addition, or increase. And consequentlyTo assent to, or fa vour; to assist; to add to, or increase. Beside all this he was ful greuously, ACCELERATE, v. ACCELERA'TION. ACCELERATIVE. celer,) to hasten. Fr. Accélérer; It. Accelerare; Sp. Accelerar; Lat. Accelerare, (Ad See CELERITY. To hasten, to quicken;to add to, or increase, the speed of. The inhabitaûtes 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 Chaucer. The Blacke Knight, great acceleration in businesse nowe present, maketh great inconueniences in time to come.-Golden Booke, c. 12. And for I fele, it commeth alone of thee, 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, I may haue welcome 'mongst the rest that woo, Shakespeare. Tam. of the Shrew, Act ii. sc. 1. 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; Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act iii. sc. 2. I yet through-swomme the waues, that your shore binds Clarendon. Rebellion, b. viil. 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. 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 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 It is almost unnecessary to the completest collections. 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, 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. Blackstonc. Commentaries, b. iv. c. 3. 11 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. ACCEND, v. Į Lat. Accendere, (Ad-cenere,) to kindle (qv 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 exhaled.-T. Brown. Vulg. Errours, b. ii. c. 5. will flush no more; for the sulphur of the antimony is quite 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 Locke. Elements of Nat. Philosophy. approaches to it, in their respective revolutions. A'CCENT, n. 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 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. Slow. 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 the word, than is done by any other nation. In Greek and Latin, no word is accented farther back than the third syllable from the end, or what is called the antepenult. Blai. Lect. 9. In order to form any judgment of the versification of Chaucer, it is necessary that we should know the syllabical value of his words, and the accentual value of his syllables, as they were commonly pronounced in his time. Tyrwhitt. On the Language &c. of Chaucer, § 10. The division, scansion, and accentuation of all the rest of the Psalms in the Bishop's edition, are left naked and destitute of demonstration.-Lowth. Conf. of Bp. Hare, p. 18. ACCEPT, v. ACCEPTABLE. ACCEPTABLENESS, or ACCEPTABILITY. ACCEPTABLY. ACCEPTANCE. ACCEPTER. Fr. Accepter; It. Accettare; Sp. Aceptar; Lat. Acceptum; part. past of Accip-ere, (Ad-capere,) to take to. Generally applied, when the thing taken or received, or the motive of the offerer, is pleasing, agreeable, approved 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 foundan that God is not acceptour of persones, but in ech folk he that dredith God and worchith rightwisnesse 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, Chaucer. The Remedie of Love. Infernal furies, ye wreakers of wrong: 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 fanourable 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: Cris. Shakespeare. Tam. of the Shrew, Act ii. sc. 1. -Please you to be acceptive, young gentleman? 1 Pyr. Yes sir, fear not; I shall accept. I have a foolish humour of taking, (aside) if you knew all. B. Jonson. Poetaster, Act iii. sc. 1. Cyn. And if you judge it any recompense Id. Cynthia's Revels, Act v. sc. 1. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom, which cannot be moved, let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear. To the Hebrews, xii. 28. Paul. If he heartily desires what the other perfunctorily and with his lips only utters, not praying with his heart, and with the acceptabilities of a good life, the amen shall be more than all the prayer.-Bp. Taylor, vol. iii. Ser. 10. God is no accepter of persons, neither riches nor poverty are a means to procure his favour: but in all conditions of men, he that loveth righteousness, and hateth iniquity, shall be accepted by him.-Chillingworth, Ser. 3. § 33. Such with him Finds no acceptance, nor can find; for how Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Paul. 1 Tim. iv. 15. When the school-men talk of recta ratio in morals, either they understand reason, as it is governed by a command 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. lordship's most special kindnesse and bountifull goodnes at I neither am, neither shall be able to requite this your 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. A'CCIDENT, adj. & n. Fr. Accident; It. Accidente; Sp. Accidente; Lat. Accidens; pres. part. of Acci 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 mo sacraments to them then cryst made, and to consecrate and to make the body of cryste, to sende whigtnes, rowndes, tast & other qualities & quãtities reawaye the substance of the bread, the accidents as the mayning.-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; Shakespeare. 1 Part Hen. IV. Act i. sc. 2. And not a man for being simply man, Id. Tro. and Cres. Act ii. sc. 3. What the light is, whether a substance or an accident, whether of a corporall or incorporall nature, it is not easy to determine.-Hakewill. Apologie, p. 93. 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, 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 of attaining all the good, of every kind, it was even accidentally capable of producing; or, only of some certain good, which the institutors, unconcerned with, and unattentive 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 forth in a cleere, calme, and sun-shine evening, about an houre before the sunne did usually maske himselfe, unto the river, where finding of a mallard, he whistled off his faulcon, &c. Drake. Shakesp. & his Times. From Nash. Quaternio. ACCITE, v. Lat. Acci-re, itum, (Ad-ciere,) to go or send for; to summon. See CITE. Mine old dere enemy, my froward maister, Sir T. Wyat. Complaint to Reason. When the place was redy, the Kyng and the Quene wer accited by Docter Sampson to appere before the Legates, at the forenamed place, the twentie and eight day of May. Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 21. A nobler man, a brauer warrior; But in my deske, what was there to accite B. Jonson. Execration upon Vulcan. ACCLAIM, v. Fr. Acclamation; It. AcACCLAIM, n. clamare, Acclamazione; Sp. ACCLAMATION. Aclamar, Aclamation; Lat. Acclamare, (Ad-clamare,) to cry out, or shout to. Applied to noisy and tumultuous expressions of assent, choice, approbation. Justly did thy followers hold the best ornaments of the earth worthy of no better, than thy treading upon.-How happily, did they think their backs disrobed for thy way! How gladly, did they spend their breath in acclaiming thee! Bp. Hail. Contemp. Procession to the Temple. -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 Apollo, was in a sute so cover'd with rich embrodry, that one could perceive nothing of the stuff under it; he went almost the whole way with his hat in hand, saluting the ladys and acclamators who had fill'd the windows with their beauty, and the aire with Vive le Roy.-Evelyn. Memoirs, an. 1651. The herald ends: the vaulted firmament, With loud acclaims and vast applause is rent. Dryden. Palamon & Arcite. Angus. Thou shalt be crown'd:- Smollett. Regicide, Act v. sc. 8 ACC An amiable accomplished prince ascends the throne under 4 ACCLIVITY, n. s. The men [of the Alps] leaving their wives and younger The example of our Saviour [was] accommodated for all Cloy is derived by But better is, that a wights tong rest Than entermete him of soch doing Of which he neither rede can nor sing Chaucer. Assembly of Foules. No man of what condition so euer he be, except he haunt The mouldie moss which thee accloyeth Spenser. Shepherd's Calendar. February. As then, no winde at all there blew, Spenser. El. upon Astrophile. For they that escape best in the temperate zone, would be ACCOIL, or COIL. See COIL. ACCO'L, v. (collum). To embrace round the neck This hauing said, she left me all in teres, ACCOMMODATE, v. ACCOMMODATELY. ACCOMMODATION. ACCOMMODATOR. COMMODIOUS. Fr. Accommoder; To act to the advantage, or for the benefit, or convenience of: to serve, to suit, to adapt, to adjust. But sithens it [sc. speaking in praise of the dead] hath bené approued and allowed of a long tyme, that it ought to be this done, it becommeth me, obeyuge to the lawe, to accommodate and apply my spekynge to the opynyō & wille of every one of you, the most that I maye. Nicolls. Thucydides, fol. 54. As a king, which commandeth some goodly building to be K. Ja. However, what is necessary for you Ford. Perkin Warbeck, Act iv. sc. 3. Shakespeare. Meas. for Meas. Act iii. sc. 1. It is not the endeavour of Moses, or the prophets, to discover any mathematical or philosophical subtilties; but rather to accommodate themselves to vulgar capacities, and ordinary speech, as nurses are wont to use their infants. Bishop Wilkins. Math. and Phil. Works, b. ii. ACC 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 More. Def. of Lit. Cabbala, c. 3. accommodately to the capacity of the people. 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 Hallywell. Sav. of Souls, p. 80. may further be demonstrated. 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 And this sense is very accommodate and proper to this As there is infinite variety in the circumstances of per- Id. Logick, pt. ii. c. 5. Heaven speed the canvass, gallantly unfurl'd Cowper. Charity. Mahomet, who wanted the refinement of our modern accommodators, plainly saw that the doctrine of Redemption followed the passion; completed the scheme of revelation; and shut out all his bold pretences. Warburton. Doctrine of Grace, b. iii. c. 3. ACCOMPANY, v. Fr. Accompagner; It. pañar. See COMPANY. To go or come together with; to follow or at- Lo if thou loue her, loue eke thine honestie, If she sit ydell; of very necessitie Her minde woll search ferre and eke wide, Chaucer. Remedie of Loue. So shall mine eyes in payne accompany my hart, By our traffic into foreign countries, tho' we many times 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. He [Dr. Burney] observes, that in this song to Echo a favourable opportunity was suggested to the musician for instrumental iterations, of which he made no use: and that, as the words have no accompaniment but a dry bass, the notes were but ill calculated to waken Echo, however Id. On Comus. courteous, and to invite her to give an answer. ACCOMPLICE, n. Ad-complex, plicare, to knit together. See COMPLICE. In ancient writers it is most commonly found without ac prefixed. One who is knitted, joined, or united with another; who co-operates with, aids or assists another. And now of late Duke Humphry's old allies, Drayton. Margaret to De la Poole. Dryden. Ovid. Cinyras and Myrrha To fulfil; to perform, execute fully; to perfect, to supply, to furnish; to succeed in, to acquire, to obtain. And Tullius sayth, that grete thinges ne ben not accomChaucer. Tale of Melibeus. plised by strengthe, ne by delivernesse of body, but by good conseil, by auctoritee of persones, and by science. From the full accomplishmit of the thinge proclamed, concerninge the reedifying of Hierusalem, which accomplishment and fullfinishment of the worke was done in the 32 of Darius.--Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 9. What with his tenants, servants, followers, friends, All that shire universally attends Daniel. Civil Wars, b. v. So shall my word that goeth forth out of my mouth; it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please.-Isaiah lvii. 11. -And from the tents, Shakespeare. Hen. V. Choru.. To whom our general ancestor repli'd, Milton. Par. Lost, b. iv. 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 ail those ends to which Providence did appoint it. Wilkins. Math. and Phil. Works, b. i. Or grant, that with extreme surprise, 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 many people of shining rank and character gamed too. I 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 ACCOMPT, n. Chesterfield. Letters. Churchill. Ghost, b. iii. Ad-conSee COUNT. putare, 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. R. Brunne, p. 135 - 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 confermyd-Wiclif. Dedis, c. 19. And thus ben thei the worst of all Of hem, whiche vnto wrath fall, For thei accompten their wrath nought, But if there be shedynge of blood.-Gower. Con. 4. 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, Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act i. sc. 5. Adur. I make my judge my jury; be accountant, 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, 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. ACCO'RDING, adj. ACCORDINGLY. 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. 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, Tho hii were to thys batayle prest in ethher syde, 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 Chaucer. The Assemblie of Foules. Id. The Floure and the Leafe. Throughout the world if it were sought, But well to say, and so to mene, 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] yere of Aluredus, for he made one monarchy of al vii kyngshuld be rekened from the first yere of Cerdicus to the laste domes.-Id. c. 105. Eng. If duke of Burgonie, you would the peace 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 But wooe her, gentle Paris, get her heart; Shakespeare. Rom. and Jul. Act i. sc. 2. 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 The heroes pray'd, and Pallas, from the skies, 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. urnet. 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. Couper. Let. 172. Yes, magic lyre! now all complete Thy slender frame responsive rings; 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, according 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 Acco/AST, 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, But I the measure of her flight doe search, And all her pray, and all her diet know: 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, 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 discomposed 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 Hard by an ivy'd oak stood near, ACCOUPLE, or COUPLE. See COUPLE. Fr. Accoupler. To join, unite, yoke together. The youg galantes of Frauce had coates garded with one colour, cut in x or xii partes very richely to beholde and so al the Englishmē accoupled theselues with the Frensh men louingly togather, and so roade to Lodon. Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 9. King Charles sent a solemne ambassage to treat a peace and league with the king, accoupling it with an article in the nature of a request.-Bacon. Hist. of Hen. VII. p. 81. ACCOURAGE. See COURAGE. Fr. Accourager, to hearten, embolden: used as we now use Encourage. Aftir two yeres Philometer obtayned helpe of the Romas to recouer his lost cities, and thus accouraged of the Romans he expelled his auuncles syriake hoste and armye. Joye. The Exposicion of Daniel, . 11. 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. il. c. 2. 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. 2. ACCOUTRE, v. Į Fr. Accoutrer. Sax. ACCOUTREMENT. Cuth, is the pp. of Cunnan, to know. Acunnan is, to try, to prove. To accoutre, then, may be, to provide with arms, tried, proved: but subsequently applied generally, To provide with dress, trappings, ornaments, equipments. ACC Uncouth, is by Fairfax also applied to an armed man. In the edition of Chaucer, quoted by Junius and by Tyrwhitt (in v. Timbesterre,) we find Ycothe, in Špeght, 1598, it is merely Cothe. See UNCOUTH. There was many a timbestere And sailours, that I dare well swere Ycothe her craft full parfetly, The timbris up full subtilly Thei casten, and hent hem full oft Upon a finger faire and soft, That thei ne failed never mo.-Chaucer. R. R. 769. Nov. jun. What fouler object in the world than to see a young, fair, handsome beauty, unhandsomely dighted, and incongruently accoutred! Massinger. Fatal Dowry, Act iv. sc. 1. -Ile hold thee any wager Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act iii. sc. 4. Euerie thing about you, [should] demonstrate a carelesse desolation; but you are no such man; you are rather point deuice in your accoustrements. 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 furniture of air, light, and gravity; with every thing in short, that is necessary to the preservation and security of the globe itself-what else can be concluded, but that all was made with manifest design? Derham. Physico-Theology, b.i. c. 5. ACCROACH, v. ACC Fr. Accrocher. See ENCROACH, and the quotation from Blackstone. In semblant (as men sayne) is gile, The ship, whiche wende his helpe accroche, And fire, whan it to towe approcheth, 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 901.: 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. ACCRUE, or Fr. Accru, Accroître; It. AcACCRE'w, v. crescere; Sp. Acrecentar. See ACCRESCENT. ACCRU'MENT. 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. And canst thou believe, that most heroical and omnipotent infiniteness of his, will abridge a follower of such poor toyes 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 rose.-Churchill. Independence. I cannot imagine what accruements will hence [from ex ACCREDIT, v. Fr. Accréditer; It. Accre- tempore prayer] come to the publick: it may be, some additare; Sp. Acreditar Lat. Accredere, (Advantages may be to the private interests of men. Bp. Taylor. Set Forms of Liturgie, credere,) to trust to. 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. To give trust or confidence to: to give that from consequence or importance which arises trust or confidence. I am better pleased, indeed, that he [the Analytical Reviewer] censures some things, than I should have been with unmixt 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 asseveration, as a thing [the water and the blood] 30 wonderful, that the explicit testimony of an eye-witness was requisite to make it credible: and yet of great importance to be accredited as a main foundation of faith. Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 9. Having received my instructions and letters of accreditation from the earl of Hillsborough, secretary of state, on the 17th day of April, 1780, I took my departure for Portsmouth, &c.-Mem. of R. Cumberland, vol. i. p. 417. Fr. Accroître; It. Accrescere; Sp. Acrecentar; Lat. Accrescere, crescere, à creare,) to grow to, (Ad We may trace a gradual increase of the circulation of it, [vegetative life] from the mere inert parts, as it were, of matter to the trees, and shrubs, and plants, and flowers, whose living growths are more and more conspicuous, daily ornamented with new appearances of accrescent variety and alteration.-Shuckford. Creation and Fall of Man, p. 90. Of these three degrees of interiour or spirituall mortification, the first is duty, the secound is counsell, and the third is perfection; we sinne, if we have not the first, we are in danger without the second, but without the third we cannot be perfect as our heavenly father is; but shall have more humane infirmities to be ashamed of, then can be excused by the accresencies and condition of our nature. 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, Cowper. Conversation. To lie or lean to, to incline, to recline. See 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. Again, greatness of relief, accumulated in one piace, doth Great Strafford! worthy of that name, though all 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 Ozon. 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. A'CCURACY. A'CCURATE. A'CCURATELY. A'CCURATENESS. Lat. Accurare, (Ad-cura,) to do with care. 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, 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. A. S. Curs-ian; ACCURSE. See CURSE. 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 "Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his dis-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. 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 Shope me to be a líues creature. Bp. Taylor. Great Exemplar. pt. 1. § 10. posture in eating, was introduced after the first Punic war. Those places, which were formerly filled with wood, have buried the fallen trees three, four, or five foot deep in the ground, by an accretion or cover of earth, derived to them sometimes by alluvions or floods. Hale. Origin of Mankind, p. 96. That we call a fayrie stone, and is often found in gravel pits amongst us, being of an hemispherical figure, hath five double lines arising from the center of its basis, which if no accretion distraet them, do commonly concur and meet in the pole thereof.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 1. If the motion be very slow, we perceive it not. Thus vegetables spring up from their mother earth; and we can no more discern their accretive motion, then we can their most hidden cause.-Glanvil. The Vanity of Dogmat. c. 9. ACCUMULATE, v. ACCUMULATE, adj. ACCUMULATION. ACCUMULATIVE. ACCUMULATOR. ther. O death alas, why nilt thou do me dey Arbuthnot. On Coins. Chaucer. Troilus, b. iv. ·mular; Lat. Accumu- To heap together; to increase; to collect, or gather together. By thys meanes and pollecy thys Alexander gat, accumulated, and heaped vp a great summe of money. Hall. Hen. VII. an. 16. where.-Shakespeare. 1 Part Hen. IV. Act ii. sc. 2. -Fast by, hanging in a golden chain, Milton. Paradise Lost, b. fi. Heavy, O Lord! on me thy judgments lie, 15 |