Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AC-CEPTIVE, a.

Ready to accept. [Not used.] B. Jonson.

AC-CESS', n. [L. accessus, from accedo. See Accede. Fr. [accès.]

1. A coming to; near approach; admittance; admission; as, to gain access to a prince.
2. Approach, or the way by which a thing may be approached; as the access is by a neck of land. Bacon.
3. Means of approach; liberty to approach; implying previous obstacles. By whom also we have access by faith. Rom. v.
4. Admission to sexual intercourse. During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown. Blackstone.
5. Addition; increase by something added; as, an access of territory; but in this sense accession is more generally used.
6. The return of a fit or paroxysm of disease, or fever. In this sense accession is generally used.

AC'CESS-A-RI-LY,

See ACCESSORILY.

AC'CESS-A-RI-NESS,

See ACCESSORINESS.

AC'CESS-A-RY,

See ACCESSORY.

AC-CESS-I-BIL'I-TY, n.

The quality of being approachable or of admitting access. Langhorne.

AC-CESS'I-BLE, a.

1. That may be approached or reached approachable; applied to things; as, an accessible town a mountain.
2. Easy of approach; affable; used of persons.

AC-CESSI-BLY, adv.

So as to be accessible.

AC-CESS'ION, n. [L. accessio.]

1. A coming to; an acceding to and joining; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.
2. Increase by something added; that which is added; with invitation; as an accession of wealth or territory.
3. In late, a mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance, which, receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the thing added or improvement; provided the thing is not changed into a different species. Thus the owner of a cow becomes to owner of her calf. Blackstone.
4. The act of arriving at a throne, an office, or dignity.
5. That which is added. The only accession which the Roman Empire received, as the province of Britain. Gabor.
6. The invasion of a fit of a periodical disease, or fever. It differs from exacerbation. Accession implies a total previous intermission, as of a fever; exacerbation implies only a previous remission or abatement of violence.

AC-CESS-O'RI-AL, a.

Pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt. Burr's Trial.

AC'CESS-O-RI-LY, adv. [See Accessory.]

In the manner an accessory; by subordinate means, or in a secondary character; not as principal, but as a subordinate agent.

AC'CESS-O-RI-NESS, n.

The state of being accessory, of being or acting in a secondary. character.

AC'CESS-O-RY, a. [L. accessorius, from accessus, accedo. See Accede. This word is accented on the first syllable account of the derivatives, which require a secondary accent on the third; but the natural accent of accessory the second syllable, and thus it is often pronounced by good speakers.]

1. Acceding; contributing; aiding in producing some crime or acting in subordination to the principal agent. Usually in a bad sense; as, John was accessory to the felony.
2. Aiding in certain acts or effects in a secondary manner, as, articulatory sounds in music.

AC'CESS-O-RY, n.

1. In law, one who is guilty of a felony, not by committing the offense in person or as principal, but convincing or commanding another to commit the crime, by concealing the offender. There may be accessories in felonies, but not in treason. An accessory before the fact, is one who courses or commands another to contract felony, and is not present when the act is executed; after the fact, when one receives and conceals the offender.
2. That which accedes or belongs to something else, as principal. Accessory nerves, in anatomy, a pair of nerves, such as rising from the medulla in the vertebers of the neck, ascend a enter the skull; then, passing out with the paragnt, distributed into the muscles of the neck and shoulder. Accessory, among painters, an epithet given to parts of a history-piece which are merely commentary or rumor.

AC'CI-DENCE, n. [See Accident.]

A small book containing the rudiments of grammar.

AC'CI-DENT, n. [L. accidens, falling, from ad and cado, to fall; W. codum, a fall, cwyzaw, to fall; Ir. kudaim; Corn. kotha; Arm. kuetha, to fall. See Case and Cadence. Class Gd.]

1. A coming or falling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusual effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected; chance; casualty; contingency.
2. That which takes place or begins to exist without an efficient intelligent cause and without design. All of them, in his opinion, owe their being to fate, accident, or the blind action of stupid matter. Dwight.
3. In logic, a property, or quality of a being which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper. Also all qualities are called accidents, in opposition to substance, as sweetness, softness, and things not essential to a body, as clothes. Encyc.
4. In grammar, something belonging to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, inflection. Encyc.
5. In heraldry, a point or mark, not essential to a coat of arms. Encyc.

AC-CI-DENT'AL, a.

1. Happening by chance, or rather unexpectedly; casual; fortuitous; taking place not according to the usual course of things; opposed to that which is constant, regular, or intended; as, an accidental visit.
2. Non-essential; not necessarily belonging to; as songs are accidental to a play. Accidental colors, are those which depend upon the affections; of the eye, in distinction from those which belong to the light itself. Encyc. Accidental pond, in perspective, is that point in the horizontal line, where the projections of two lines parallel to each other meet the perspective plane.

AC-CI-DENT'AL-LY, adv.

By chance; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.

AC-CI-DENT'AL-NESS, n.

The quality of being casual. [Little used.]

AC-CI-DEN'TIA-RY, a.

Pertaining to the accidence. [Not used.] Morton.

AC-CIP'I-TRINE, a. [Supra.]

Seizing; rapacious; as the accipitrine order of fowls. Ed. Encyc.

AC-CITE', v.t. [L. ad and cito, to cite.]

To call; to cite; to summon. [Not used.]

AC-CI-TER, n. [L. ad and capio, to seize.]

1. A name given to a fish, the Milvus or Lucerna, a species of Trigla. Cyc.
2. In ornithology, the name of the order of rapacious fowls. The Accipiters have a hooked bill, the superior mandible, near the base, being extended on each side beyond the inferior. The genera are the Vultur, the Falco or hawk, and the Strix or owl.

AC-CLAIM', n.

A shout of joy; acclamation. Milton.

AC-CLAIM', v.t. [L. acclamo, ad and clamo, to cry out; Sp. clamar; Port. clamar; It. clamare; W. llevain; Ir. liumham. See Claim, Clamor.]

To applaud. [Little used.] Hall.