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Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous. [Obs.] "Absonous to our reason." Glanvill.

To dishonor. "Shall flight abuse your name" Shak.

of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." Warburton. "Academical study." Berkeley.

To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure. Accelerated motion (Mech.), motion with a continually increasing velocity. -- Accelerating force, the force which causes accelerated motion. Nichol.

A word; a significant tone; (pl.) expressions in general; speech. Winds! on your wings to Heaven her accents bear, Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear. Dryden.

To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.

Admission to sexual intercourse. During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown. Blackstone.

Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.

To cite; to summon. [Obs.] Our heralds now accited all that were Endamaged by the Elians. Chapman.

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. "They accomodate their counsels to his inclination." Addison.

A cooperator. [R.] Success unto our valiant general, And happiness to his accomplices! Shak.

oul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. "To stand high in your account." Shak.

ntending 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.

To subdue; to tame; to daunt. [Obs.] Then is your careless courage accoyed. Spenser.

matic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate. Beton . . . was accredited to the Court of France. Froude.

To increase; to augment. And though power failed, her courage did accrue. Spenser.

Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English.

Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.

To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.