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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.

Capable of being accomplished; practicable. Carlyle.

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.

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

Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent. A mediator of an accord and peace between them. Bacon. These all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts i. 14.

Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller.

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

The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness. "The awful idea of accountability." R. Hall.

Capable of being accounted for; explicable. [R.] True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege. B. Whichcote.

The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.

The art or employment of an accountant.

One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts. Accountatn general, the head or superintending accountant in certain public offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited t…

The office or employment of an accountant.

The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union. [R.] Caxton.

ifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. How gay with all the accouterments of war!

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.

The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.