Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AC-COM'PA-NA-BLE, a. [See Accompany.]

Sociable. [Not used.]

AC-COM'PA-NIED, pp.

Attended; joined with in society.

AC-COM'PA-NI-MENT, n. [Fr. accompagnement. See Accompany.]

Something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added by way of ornament to the principal thing, or for the sake of symmetry. Thus, instruments of music attending the voice; small objects in painting; dogs, guns and game in a hunting-piece; warlike instruments with the portrait of a military character, are accompaniments.

AC-COM'PA-NIST, n.

The performer in music who takes the accompanying part. Busby.

AC-COM'PA-NY, v.i.

1. To attend; to be an associate; as, to accompany with others. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. To cohabit. Milton.
3. In music, to perform the accompanying part in a composition. Busby.

AC-COM'PA-NY, v.t. [Fr. accompagner; Sp accompañar; Port. accompanhar. See Company.]

1. To go with or attend as a companion or associate on a journey, walk, &c.; as, a man accompanies his friend to church, or on a tour.
2. To be with as connected; to attend; as pain accompanies disease.

AC-COM'PA-NY-ING, ppr.

Attending; going with as a companion.

AC-COM'PLICE, n. [Fr. complice; L. complicatus, folded together, of con, with, and plico, to fold; W. plegy, to plait; Arm. plega. See Complex and Pledge.]

An associate in a crime; a partner or partaker in guilt. It was formerly used in a good sense for a co-operator, but this sense is wholly obsolete. It is followed by with before a person; as, A was an accomplice with B in the murder of C. Dryden uses it with to before a thing.

AC-COM'PLISH, v.t. [Fr. accomprir, to finish, from ad and L. compleo, to complete. See Complete.]

1. To complete; to finish entirely. That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolation of Jerusalem. Dan. ix.
2. To execute; as, to accomplish a vow, wrath or fury. Lev. xiii. and xx.
3. To gain; to obtain or effect by successful exertions; as, to accomplish a purpose. Prov. xiii.
4. To fulfill or bring to pass; as, to accomplish a prophecy. This that is written must yet be accomplished in me. Luke xxii.
5. To furnish with qualities which serve to render the mind or body complete, as with valuable endowments and elegant manners.

AC-COM'PLISH-ED, pp.

1. Finished; completed; fulfilled; executed; effected.
2. adj. Well endowed with good qualities and manners; complete in acquirements; having a finished education.
3. Fashionable. Swift.

AC-COM'PLISH-ER, n.

One who accomplishes.

AC-COM'PLISH-ING, ppr.

Finishing; completing; fulfilling; executing; effecting; furnishing with valuable qualities.

AC-COM'PLISH-MENT, n.

1. Completion; fulfillment; entire performance; as, the accomplishment of a prophecy.
2. The act of carrying into effect, or obtaining an object designed; attainment; as the accomplishment of our desires or ends.
3. Acquirement; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education.

AC-COMPT', [Obs.]

See ACCOUNT.

AC-COMPT'ANT, [Obs.]

See ACCOUNTANT.

AC-CORD', n. [F. accord, agreement, consent; accorder, to adjust, or reconcile; Sp. acordar; Arm. accord, accordi; It. accordo, accordare. The Lat. has concors, concordo. Qu. cor and cordis, the heart, or from the same root. In some of its applications, it is naturally deduced from chorda, It. corda, the string of a musical instrument.]

1. Agreement; harmony of minds; consent or concurrence of opinions or wills. They all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts i.
2. Concert; harmony of sounds; the union of different sounds, which is agreeable to the ear; agreement in pitch and tone; as the accord of notes; but in this sense it is more usual to employ concord or chord.
3. Agreement; just correspondence of things; as the accord of light and shade in painting.
4. Will; voluntary or spontaneous motion; used of the will of persons, or the natural motion of other bodies, and preceded by own. Being more forward of his own accord. 2 Cor. viii. That which groweth of its own accord thou shalt not reap. Lev. xxv.
5. Adjustment of a difference; reconciliation; as, the mediator of an accord.
6. In law, an agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit. Blackstone.
7. Permission, leave.

AC-CORD', v.i.

1. To agree; to be in correspondence. My heart accordeth with my tongue. Shak.
2. To agree in pitch and tone.

AC-CORD', v.t.

1. To make to agree, or correspond; to adjust one thing to another. Her hands accorded the lute's music to the voice. Sidney.
2. To bring to an agreement; to settle, adjust or compose; as to accord suits or controversies.
3. To grant, to give, to concede; as, to accord to one due praise.

AC-CORD'A-BLE, a.

Agreeable; consonant. Gower.

AC-CORD'ANCE, n.

Agreement with a person; conformity with a thing.

AC-CORD'ANT, a.

Corresponding; consonant; agreeable.

AC-CORD'ANT-LY, adv.

In accordance or agreement. Dwight.

AC-CORD'ED, pp.

Made to agree; adjusted. Shak.

AC-CORD'ER, n.

One that aids, or favors. [Little used.]

AC-CORD'ING, ppr.

1. Agreeing; harmonizing. Th' according music of a well mixt state. Pope.
2. Suitable; agreeable; in accordance with. In these senses, the word agrees with or refers to a sentence. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat. Noble is the fame that is built on candor and ingenuity, according to those beautiful lines of Sir John Denham. Spect. Here the whole preceding parts of the sentence are to accord, i. e. agree with, correspond with, or be suitable to, what follows. According, here, has its true participial sense, agreeing, and is always followed by to. It is never a preposition.