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The act of absenting one's self. Sir W. Hamilton.

A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.

To impregnate with wormwood.

Impregnated with wormwood; as, absinthiated wine.

Conferring absolution; absolutory.

To take one's self off; to decamp. [A jocular word. U. S.]

Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse. -- n.

Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible.

See Caterer. [Obs.]

See Cates. [Obs.]

Tailless.

To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.

The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation. A period of social improvement, or of intellectual advancement, contains within itself a principle of acceleration. I. Taylor.…

Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening. Reid.

One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.

Accelerative.

ominent; to emphasize. In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated. London Times.

Act of accentuating; applications of accent. Specifically (Eccles. Mus.),

Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. [Obs.] This is saying worthy of all acceptation. 1 Tim. i. 15. Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God. Hooker.