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ing in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory. To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary. Shak. Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. Milton.

n. Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords. Cowell.

uired in an instant, but step by step. Barrow. Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law. Blackstone.

To sentence; to condemn. Without reprieve, adjudged to death For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth. Milton.

Conjoined; attending; consequent. Though that my death were adjunct to my act. Shak. Adjunct notes (Mus.), short notes between those essential to the harmony; auxiliary notes; passing notes.

nted no executor, or where his appointment of an executor for any cause has failed, as by death, incompetency, refusal to act, etc.

Coming; any important arrival; approach. Death's dreadful advent. Young. Expecting still his advent home. Tennyson.

To face in defiance; to confront; as, to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter. [Archaic]

The last struggle of life; death struggle.

To the death; mortally.

the aggregate; the whole; totality; everything or every person; as, our all is at stake. Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all. Shak. All that thou seest is mine. Gen. xxxi. 43.

another. If this demand is refused the alternative is war. Lewis. With no alternative but death. Longfellow.

ria, syn. Agaricus muscarius, is the fly amanita, or fly agaric; and A. phalloides is the death cup.

ttled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.

manners. De Quincey. Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J. H. Newman. nalogous pole (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becomes positively electrified when heated.

The record of a single event or item. "In deathless annal." Young.

To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence. Publish laws, announce Or life or death. Prior.

Before death; -- generally used adjectivelly; as, an ante- mortem statement; ante-mortem examination.

mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil. After the death of his nephew Caligula, Claudius was in no small apprehension for his own life. Addison.

he current of a river; to arrest the senses. Nor could her virtues the relentless hand Of Death arrest. Philips.