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Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. They . . . show themselves accomplished bees. Holland. Daughter of God and man, accomplished Eve. Milton.

hich 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, And wisdom falls before exterior grace. Cowper.

sedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning. South.

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time. A beggarly account of empty boxes. Shak.

Pertaining to accremention.

The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.

The state of being accumbent or reclining. [R.]

Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals. The Roman.. accumbent posture in eating. Arbuthnot.

grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Goldsmith.

That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge. [They] set up over his head his accusation. Matt. xxvii. 37.

Pertaining to the accusative case.

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

Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts.

Wanting the beginning. A false or acephalous structure of sentence. De Quincey.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid. Ure.

Pertaining to a heap. [Obs.]

Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour. Faraday.

Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation.

An apparatus for hastening acetification. Knight.

An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid.