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An onset, attack, or fit of disease. The first access looked like an apoplexy. Burnet.

Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit. "Men of account." Pope. "To turn to account." Shak. Account current, a running or continued account between two or more parties, or a statement of the particulars of such an account. -- In account with, in a relation requiring an account to be kept. -- On account of, for t…

e 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.

to action; to actuate; to animate. [Obs.] Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope.

ation; as, the action of heat; a man of action. One wise in council, one in action brave. Pope.

A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.

-- Adam's flannel (Bot.), the mullein (Verbascum thapsus). -- Adam's needle (Bot.), the popular name of a genus (Yucca) of liliaceous plants.

Sticking; clinging; adhering. Pope.

state. For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administered is best. Pope.

s cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain. A mild and popular administration. Macaulay. The administration has been opposed in parliament. Johnson.

s Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles. Admiral shell (Zoöl.), the popular name of an ornamental cone shell (Conus admiralis). Lord High Admiral, a great officer of state, who (when this rare dignity is conferred) is at the head of the naval administration of Great Britain.

person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope.

g; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god. The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.

degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize. The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth. Macaulay.

Curvature inwards; hookedness. The aduncity of the beaks of hawks. Pope.

propose; to show; as, to advance an argument. Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own. Pope.

To summon; to call. [Obs.] Queen Katharine had privately prevailed with the pope to advoke the cause to Rome. Fuller.

To assure by promise. [Obs.] Pope.

pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.

The hypoptilum.