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Delivery, in speech. [Obs.] B. Jonson. Absolution day (R. C. Ch.), Tuesday before Easter.

. The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one. Locke.

mary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief. An abstract of every treatise he had read. Watts. Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled. Ford.

talks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground. Gray.

accession is more generally used.] I, from the influence of thy looks, receive Access in every virtue. Milton.

g accidents by flood and field. Shak. Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident: It is the very place God meant for thee. Trench.

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.

Delivery in childbed

often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.

Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

rime or with a lighter offense. We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. Shak.

Producing accusations; accusatory. "This hath been a very accusative age." Sir E. Dering.

Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot. I 'll not wag an ace further. Dryden. To bate an ace, to make the least abatement. [Obs.] -- Within an ace of, very near; on the point of. W. Irving.

in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. Watts.

The top or highest point; the culmination. The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry. Pope. The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy. I. Taylor.

eaching their nature, phenomena, and laws. Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics. Sir J. Herschel.

ne's part; as, the soldier acquitted himself well in battle; the orator acquitted himself very poorly.

Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing). "In act to shoot." Dryden. This woman was taken . . . in the very act. John viii. 4. Act of attainder. (Law) See Attainder. -- Act of bankruptcy (Law), an act of a debtor which renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt. -- Act of faith.…

A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim.