Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AC-CU'MU-LA-TED, pp.

Collected into a heap or great quantity.

AC-CU'MU-LA-TING, ppr.

Heaping up; amassing; increasing greatly.

AC-CU-MU-LA'TION, n.

1. The act of accumulating; the state of being accumulated; an amassing; a collecting together; as an accumulation of earth or of evils.
2. In law, the concurrence of several titles to the same thing, or of several circumstances to the same proof. Encyc.
3. In Universities, an accumulation of degrees, is the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual, or than is allowed by the rules. Encyc.

AC-CU'MU-LA-TIVE, a.

That accumulates; heaping up; accumulating.

AC-CU'MU-LA-TOR, n.

One that accumulates, gathers, or amasses.

AC'CU-RA-CY, n. [L. accuratio, from accurare, to take care of; ad and curare, to take care; cura, care. See Care.]

1. Exactness; exact conformity to truth; or to a rule or model; freedom from mistake; nicety; correctness; precision which results from care. The accuracy of ideas or opinions is conformity to truth. The value of testimony depends on its accuracy; copies of legal instruments should be taken with accuracy.
2. Closeness; tightness; as a tube sealed with accuracy.

AC'CU-RATE, a. [L. accuratus.]

1. In exact conformity to truth, or to a standard or rule, or to a model; free from failure, error, or defect; as, an accurate account; accurate measure; an accurate expression.
2. Determinate; precisely fixed; as, one body may not have a very accurate influence on another. Bacon.
3. Close; perfectly tight; as, an accurate sealing or luting.

AC'CU-RATE-LY, adv.

1. Exactly; in an accurate manner; with precision; without error or defect; as, a writing accurately copied.
2. Closely; so as to be perfectly tight; as, a vial accurately stopped. Comstock.

AC'CU-RATE-NESS, n.

Accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.

AC-CURSE, v.t. accurs'. [Ac for ad and curse.]

To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon. [This verb is rarely used. See Curse.]

AC-CURS'ED, pp.

1. or a.
2. Doomed to destruction or misery. The city shall be accursed. John vi.
3. Separated from the faithful; cast out of the church; excommunicated. I could wish myself accursed from Christ. St. Paul.
4. Worthy of the curse; detestable; execrable. Keep from the accursed thing. Josh. vi. Hence,
5. Wicked; malignant in the extreme.

AC-CU'SA-BLE, a.

That may be accused; chargeable with a crime; blamable; liable to censure; followed by of.

AC-CU'SANT, n.

One who accuses. Hall.

AC-CU-SA'TION, n.

1. The act of charging with a crime or offense; the act of accusing of any wrong or injustice.
2. The charge of an offense or crime; or the declaration containing the charge. They set over his head his accusation. Matt. xxvii.

AC-CU'SA-TIVE, a.

A term given to a case of nouns, in Grammars, on which the action of a verb terminates or falls; called in English grammar the objective case.

AC-CU'SA-TIVE-LY, adv.

1. In an accusative manner.
2. In relation to the accusative case in grammar.

AC-CU'SA-TO-RY, a.

Accusing; containing an accusation; as, an accusatory libel.

AC-CUSE', v.t. [s as z; L. accuso, to blame, or accuse; ad and causor, to blame, or accuse; causa, blame, suit, or process, cause; Fr. accuser; Sp. acusar; Port. accusar; It. accusare; Arm. accusi. The sense is, to attack, to drive against, to charge or to fall upon. See Cause.]

1. To charge with, or declare to have committed a crime, either by plaint, or complaint, information, indictment, or impeachment; to charge with an offense against the laws, judicially or by a public process; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.
2. To charge with a fault; to blame. Their thoughts, in the meanwhile, accusing or else excusing one another. Rom. ii. It is followed by of before the subject of accusation; the use of for after this verb is illegitimate.

AC-CUS'ED, pp.

Charged with a crime, by a legal process; charged with an offense; blamed.

AC-CUS'ER, n.

One who accuses or blames; an officer who prefers an accusation against another for some offense, in the name of the government, before a tribunal that has cognizance of the offense.

AC-CUS'ING, ppr.

Charging with a crime; blaming.

AC-CUS'TOM, n.

Custom. [Not used.]. Milton.

AC-CUS'TOM, v.i.

1. To be wont, or habituated to do any thing. [Little used.]
2. To cohabit. [Not used.] Milton.

AC-CUS'TOM, v.t. [Fr. accoutumer, from ad and coutume, coustume, custom. See Custom.]

To make familiar by use; to form a habit by practice; to habituate or inure; as, to accustom one's self to a spare diet.

AC-CUS'TOM-A-BLE, a.

Of long custom; habitual; customary. [Little used.]