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To enter upon an office or dignity; to attain. Edward IV., who had acceded to the throne in the year 1461. T. Warton. If Frederick had acceded to the supreme power. Morley.

pposed to retardation. A period of social improvement, or of intellectual advancement, contains within itself a principle of acceleration. I. Taylor. (Astr. & Physics.) Acceleration of the moon, the increase of the moon's mean motion in its orbit, in consequence of which its period of revolution is now shorter than in…

Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.

Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person.

h or territory. The only accession which the Roman empire received was the province of Britain. Gibbon.

Pertaining to accession; additional. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.

A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

nging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play. Accidental chords (Mus.), those which contain one or more tones foreign to their proper harmony. -- Accidental colors (Opt.), colors depending on the hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for complementary colors. They are purely subjective sensations of color which…

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike. Lowell.

Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation.

To gain; to obtain. [Obs.] Shak.

That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training. "My new accomplishment of dancing." Churchill. "Accomplishments befitting a station." Thackeray. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place,…

s charge of the accounts. Accountatn general, the head or superintending accountant in certain public offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England.

Pertaining to accremention.

charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. Shak.

Pertaining to the accusative case.

Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. Grote.

Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.