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Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.

Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional. -- Ac*cu"mu*la*tive*ly, adv. -- Ac*cu"mu*la*tive*ness, n.

One who, or that which, accumulates, collects, or amasses.

Furnished with aciculæ.

To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat. Arbuthnot.

Having small prickles or sharp points. Gray.

Clouded; obscured. [R.]

Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.

To flatter in a servile way. Byron.

Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak.

A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle.

Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

A woman who flatters with servility.

A blowing or breathing on; inspiration.

lse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

Level with the ground; flat. [Obs.] Bacon.

Agriculture. [Obs.] Bailey.

Lately; of late. [Archaic] There hath been alate such tales spread abroad. Latimer.