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

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

of; to be cognizant of; to be more or less familiar with; to be on terms of social intercourse with.

timate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones.

come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

- Act of God (Law), an inevitable accident; such extraordinary interruption of the usual course of events as is not to be looked for in advance, and against which ordinary prudence could not guard. -- Act of grace, an expression often used to designate an act declaring pardon or amnesty to numerous offenders, as at th…

al cautery. See under Cautery. -- Actual sin (Theol.), that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to "original sin."

The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination. "His addiction was to courses vain." Shak.

(a) To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. (b) To direct one's speech or discourse to.

The act of addressing or directing one's course. [Rare & Obs.] Chapman.

Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse.

Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. Tennyson.

To beautify; to dandify. I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself. Smollett.

A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.

enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages of a close alliance. Macaulay.

A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx. The affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.

Subsequent to and notwithstanding; as, after all our advice, you took that course.

nded to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it. Each at the head leveled his deadly aim. Milton.