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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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28,430 words match “OM”

ACCOMPLICESHIP n.

The state of being an accomplice. [R.] Sir H. Taylor.

ACCOMPLICITY n.

The act or state of being an accomplice. [R.]

ACCOMPLISH v. 4 definitions

To 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.

ACCOMPLISHABLE a.

Capable of being accomplished; practicable. Carlyle.

ACCOMPLISHED a. 2 definitions

Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact.

ACCOMPLISHER n.

One who accomplishes.

ACCOMPLISHMENT n. 2 definitions

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

See Accountable.

See Accountant.

ACCUSTOM v. 4 definitions

; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; - - with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.

ACCUSTOMABLE a.

Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer.

ACCUSTOMABLY adv.

According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. Latimer.

ACCUSTOMANCE n.

Custom; habitual use. [Obs.] Boyle.

ACCUSTOMARILY adv.

Customarily. [Obs.]

Usual; customary. [Archaic] Featley.

ACCUSTOMED a. 2 definitions

Familiar through use; usual; customary. "An accustomed action." Shak.

ACCUSTOMEDNESS n.

Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.

Same as Acetimeter. Brande & C.

ACHROMATIC a. 2 definitions

Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.