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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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A respecter; a viewer with partiality. [Obs.] God is no accepter of persons. Chillingworth.

that restrictive sense to which the modern acception hath confined it. Fuller. Acception of persons or faces (Eccl.), favoritism; partiality. [Obs.] Wyclif.

one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.

ACCESS n. 5 definitions

lace, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land. "All access was thronged." Milton.

ACCESSARILY adv.

In the manner of an accessary.

ACCESSARINESS n.

The state of being accessary.

ACCESSARY a. 2 definitions

y. Shak. Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. Milton.

ACCESSIBILITY n.

The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility. Langhorne.

ACCESSIBLE a. 2 definitions

Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person.

ACCESSION n. 5 definitions

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.

Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.

ACCESSORILY adv.

In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary.

ACCESSORINESS n.

The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.

ACCESSORY a. 3 definitions

onnected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.

ACCIDENCE n. 2 definitions

The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. Milton.

ACCIDENT n. 5 definitions

resight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. Of moving accidents by flood and field. Shak. Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident: It…

ACCIDENTAL a. 4 definitions

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

ACCIDENTALITY n.

The quality of being accidental; accidentalness. [R.] Coleridge.

ACCIDENTALNESS n.

The quality of being accidental; casualness.

Sloth; torpor. [Obs.] "The sin of accidie." Chaucer.