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Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied. I am . . . necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. Fuller.

A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.

To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted

The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation. My words, in common acceptation, Could never give this provocation. Gay.

Acceptation; the received meaning. [Obs.] Here the word "baron" is not to be taken in that restrictive sense to which the modern acception hath confined it. Fuller. Acception of persons or faces (Eccl.), favoritism; partiality. [Obs.] Wyclif.

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

A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.

hood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

ition accords with his looks. My heart accordeth with my tongue. Shak. Thy actions to thy words accord. Milton.

of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.

this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth.

A short sword or saber.

or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.

on of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth. Hence, in specific uses:

nd vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal. Active and nervous was his gait. Wordsworth.

In an active signification; as, a word used actively.

, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in…

To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience). The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance. Dryden.

Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.

Combining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands.