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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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ACCOMMODATELY adv.
Suitably; fitly. [R.]
ACCOMMODATENESS n.
Fitness. [R.]
ACCORPORATE v.
To unite; to attach; to incorporate. [Obs.] Milton.
ACCRIMINATE v.
To accuse of a crime. [Obs.] -- Ac*crim`i*na"tion, n. [Obs.]
ACCUMULATE v. 3 definitions
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
ACCURATE a. 2 definitions
ent, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.
ACCURATELY adv.
In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.
ACCURATENESS n.
The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
ACERATE n. 2 definitions
A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.
ACERBATE v.
To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.
ACERVATE v. 2 definitions
To heap up. [Obs.]
ACETATE n.
A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.
ACETATED a.
Combined with acetic acid.
ACHATE n. 3 definitions
An agate. [Obs.] Evelyn.
ACHLAMYDATE a.
Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods.
ACICULATE; ACICULATED a. 3 definitions
Furnished with aciculæ.
ACIDULATE v.
To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat. Arbuthnot.
ACTIVATE v.
To make active. [Obs.]
ACTUATE v. 3 definitions
motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it. Addison.
ACUATE v. 2 definitions
To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken. [Obs.] "[To] acuate the blood." Harvey.
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