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Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent.

Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful. [R.] I am absolute 't was very Cloten. Shak.

ice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. Palfrey.

solve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen. Macaulay.

To withdraw; to separate; to take away. He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices. Sir W. Scott.

To consume gradually; to waste away. [Obs.] Boyle.

Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

wers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

istinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize. In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated. London Times.

and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.

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

, an accession of wealth or territory. The only accession which the Roman empire received was the province of Britain. Gibbon.

ibutory; 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.

Glover. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir P. Sidney. He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels. Macaulay.

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.

o value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem. Accounting that God was able to raise him up. Heb. xi. 19.

ssador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate. Beton . . . was accredited to the Court of France. Froude.

wner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. Shak.

rt; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered. He was stern and his face as acid as ever. A. Trollope.