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Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty. So absolute she seems, And in herself complete. Milton.

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

A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y''.

ch; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince. I did repel his letters, and denied His access to me. Shak.

To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett.

ompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically: (Mus.)

To complete, as time or distance. That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Dan. ix. 2. He had accomplished half a league or more. Prescott.

Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact.

The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.

To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate. Beton . . . was accredited to the Court of France. Froude.

The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation.

Frequented by customers. [Obs.] "A well accustomed shop." Smollett.

inguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydroge…

cal process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required. -- Ac`id*i*met"ric*al, a.

One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

gratitude or as a benefit or an obligation; as, to acknowledge a favor, the receipt of a letter. They his gifts acknowledged none. Milton.

Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc. Smollett.

Hanging at the cathead, ready to let go, as an anchor.

her here of my son Paris' love. Shak. I must acquaint you that I have received New dated letters from Northumberland. Shak.

Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.