Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.