Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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-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-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-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.

AC-CLA-MA'TION, n. [L. acclamatio. See Acclaim.]

1. A shout of applause uttered by a multitude. Anciently, acclamation was a form of words, uttered with vehemence, somewhat resembling a song, sometimes accompanied with applauses which were given by the hands. Acclamations were ecclesiastical, military, nuptial, senatorial, synodical, theatrical, &c.; they were musical, and rhythmical; and bestowed for joy, respect, and even reproach, and often accompanied with words, repeated, five, twenty, and even sixty and eighty times. In the later ages of Rome, acclamations were performed by a chorus of music instructed for the purpose. In modern times, acclamations are expressed by hurrahs; by clapping of hands; and often by repeating vivat rex, vivat respublica, long live the king or republic, or other words expressive of joy and good wishes.
2. In archaiology, a representation in sculpture or on medals of people expressing joy. Elmes.

AC-CLAM'A-TO-RY, a.

Expressing joy or applause by shouts, or clapping of hands.

AC-CLI'MATE, v.t. [ac for ad, and climate.]

To habituate the body to a climate not native, so as not to be peculiarly exposed to its endemic diseases.

AC-CLI'MA-TED, a.

Habituated to a foreign climate, or a climate not native; so far accustomed to a foreign climate as not to be peculiarly liable to its endemic diseases. Med. Repository.

AC-CLI-MA'TION, n.

1. The process of becoming habituated to a foreign climate.
2. The state of being habituated or inured to a climate.

AC-CLI'MA-TURE, n.

Act of acclimating, or state of being acclimated. Caldwell.

AC-CLIV'I-TY, n. [L. acclivus, acclivis, ascending, from ad and clivis, an ascent; Ir. clui; Gr. Eol. κλιπυς; Sax. clif, a cliff, bank or shore; clifian, cleofian, to cleave or split. See Cliff.]

A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or a side descending. Rising ground; ascent; the talus of a rampart.

AC-CLI'VOUS, a.

Rising, as a hill with a slope.

AC-CLOY', v.t.

To fill; to stuff; to fill to satiety. [See Cloy.] Spenser.

AC-COIL',

See COIL.

AC'CO-LA, n.

A delicate fish eaten at Malta.

AC-CO-LADE', n. [L. ad and collum, neck.]

A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood; but whether an embrace or a blow, seems not to be settled. Cyc.

AC-CO'LENT, n. [L. ad and colo.]

A borderer; one who dwells on a border of a country, or near. Ash.

AC-COM'MO-DA-BLE, a. [Fr. accommodable. See Accommodate.]

That may be fitted, made suitable, or made to agree. [Little used.]

AC-COM'MO-DA-BLE-NESS, n.

The capability of accommodating.

AC-COM'MO-DATE, a.

Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to the end. Ray. Tillotson.

AC-COM'MO-DATE, v.t. [L. accommodo, to apply or suit, from ad and commodo, to profit or help; of con, with, and modus, measure, proportion, limit, or manner. See Mode.]

1. To fit, adapt, or make suitable; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances; to accommodate the choice of subjects to the occasions. Paley.
2. To supply with or furnish; – followed by with; as, to accommodate a man with apartments.
3. To supply with conveniences, as to accommodate a friend.
4. To reconcile things which are at variance; to adjust; as, to accommodate differences.
5. To show fitness or agreement; to apply; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
6. To lend – a commercial sense. In an intransitive sense, to agree, to be conformable to, as used by Boyle. [Obs.]