it doth somewhat make to the accessory augmentation of our bliss. Hooker. A'CCESSORY. n. s. [accessorius, Lat. accessoire, Fr. This word, which had anciently a general signification, is now almost confined to forms of law.] 1. Applied to persons.

A man that is guilty of a felonious offence, not principally, but by participation; as, by commandment, advice, or concealment. And a man may be accessory to the offence of another, after two sorts, by the common law, or by statute; and, by the common law two ways also; that is, before or after the fact. Before the fact; as, when one commandeth or adviseth another to commit a felony, and is not present at the execution thereof, for his presence makes him also a principal; wherefore there cannot be an accessory before the fact in manslaughter, because manslaughter is sudden and not prepensed. Accessory after the fact, is, when one receiveth him whom he knoweth to have committed felony. Accessory by statute, is he that abets, counsels, or hides any man committing, or having committed, an offence made felony by statute. Cowell.

By the common law, the accessories cannot be proceeded against, till the principal has received his trial. Spenser's State of Ireland. But pause, my soul!" and study, ere thou fall On accidental joys, th' essential. Still, before accessories do abide A trial, must the principal be try'd. Now were all transform'd Alike, to serpents all, as accessories To his bold riot.

2. Applied to things.

Donne.

Paradise Lost.

An accessory is said to be that which does ac cede unto some principal fact or thing in law; and, as such, generally speaking, follows the reason and nature of its principal. Ayliffe. A'CCIDENCE. n. s. [a corruption of accidents, from accidentia, Lat.] The little book containing the first rudiments of grammar, and explaining the properties of the eight parts of speech. I do confess I do want eloquence, And never yet did learn mine accidente. Taylor, the Water-poet. A'CCIDENT. n. s. [accidens, Lat.] 1. The property or quality of any being, which may be separated from it, at least in thought.

If she were but the body's accident, And her sole being did in it subsist,

As white in snow, she might herself absent, And in the body's substance not be miss'd. Sir J. Davies.

An accidental mode, or an accident, is such a mode as is not necessary to the being of a thing; for the subject may be without it, and yet remain of the same nature that it was before; or it is that mode which may be separated or abolished from its subject Watts' Logick. 2. In grammar, the property of a word. The learning of a language is nothing else but the informing of ourselves, what composures of letters are, by consent and institution, to signify such certain notions of things, with their modalities and accidents. Holder's Elem. of Speech. That which happens unforeseen; casualty; chance.

General laws are like general rules in physick, according whereunto, as no wise man will desire himself to be cured, if there be joined with his disease some special accident, in regard whereof, that whereby others in the same infirmity, but without the like accident, recover health, would be to him either hurtful, or, at the least, unprofitable. Hooker. The flood, and other accidents of time, made it one common field and pasture with the land of Eden. Raleigh's Hist. of the World, Our joy is turn'd

Into perplexity, and new amaze;
For whither is he gone? What accident
Hath rapt him from us? Paradise Regained.
And trivial accidents shall be forborn,
That others may have time to take their turn.
Dryden's Fables.

dent.

The reformation owed nothing to the good intentions of king Henry. He was only an instrument of it (as the logicians speak) by acci Swift's Miscellanies. ACCIDENTAL. n. s. [accidental, Fr. See ACCIDENT.] A property nonessential. Conceive as much as you can of the essentials of any subject, before you consider its accidentals, Watts' Logick. ACCIDENTAL. adj. [from accident.] 1. Having the quality of an accident; nonessential: used with the particle to, before that in which the accident inheres.

2.

A distinction is to be made between what pleases naturally in itself, and what pleases upon the account of machines, actors, dances, and circumstances, which are merely accidental to the tragedy. Rymer's Tragedies of the last Age.

This is accidental to a state of religion, and therefore ought to be reckoned among the ordiCasual; fortuitous; happening nary difficulties of it. Tillotson. chance.

Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade.
So shall you hear

by

Shake.

Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters;
Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause.
Shakspeare.

Look upon things of the most accidental and mutable nature; accidental in their production, and mutable in their continuance; yet God's prescience of them is as certain in him, as the memory of them is, or can be, in us. 3. In the following passage it seems to signify adventitious.

Ay, such a minister as wind to fire, That adds an accidental fierceness to Its natural fury.

South.

ACCIDENTALNESS. n. s. [from acciden tal.] The quality of being accidental.

Dict.

ACCIPIENT, n. s. [accipiens, Lat.] A receiver; perhaps sometimes used for recipient.

Dict.

TO ACCI'TE. v. a. [accito, Lat.] To call; to summon. Not in use.

Our coronation done, we will accite (As I before remember'd) all our state; And (heav'n consigning to my good intents) No prince, no peer, shall have just cause to say, Heav'n shorten Harry's happy life one day.

Shakspeare. ACCLAIM. n. s. [acclamo, Lat. from which probably first the verb acclaim, now lost, and then the noun.] A shout of praise; acclamation.

Back from pursuit thy pow'rs, with loud ac claim,

Thee only extoll'd.

Milton's Par. Lost. The herald ends; the vaulted firmament With loud acclaims, and vast applause, is rent. Dryden's Fables. ACCLAMATION. n. s. [acclamatio, Lat.] Shouts of applause, such as those with which a victorious army salutes the general.

It hath been the custom of christian men, in token of the greater reverence, to stand, to utter certain words of acclamation, and, at the name of Jesus, to bow. Hooker. Gladly then he mix'd Among those friendly pow'rs, who him receiv'd With joy, and acclamations loud, that one, That, of so many myriads fall'n, yet one Return'd, not lost. Milt. Par. Lost. Such an enchantment is there in words, and so fine a thing does it seem to some to be ruined plausibly, and to be ushered to their destruction with panegyrick and acclamation. South. ACCLIVITY. n. s. [from acclivus, Lat.] The steepness or slope of a line inclining to the horizon, reckoned upward; as, the ascent of a hill is the acclivity, the descent is the declivity. Quincy. The men, leaving their wives and younger children below, do, net without some difficulty, clamber up the acclivities, dragging their kine with them, where they feed them, and milk them, and make butter and cheese, and do all the dairy work. Ray on the Creation. AccLrvous. adj. [acclivus, Lat.] Rising with a slope.

To AccLO'Y. v. a. [See CLOY.] 1. To fill up, in an ill sense; to crowd; to stuff full: a word almost obsolete.

At the well head the purest streams arise: But mucky filth his branching arms annoys, And with uncomely weeds the gentle wave accloys. Fairy Queen.

a. To fill to satiety: in which sense cloy is still in use.

They that escape best in the temperate zone, would be accloyed with long nights, very tedious, no less than forty days. Ray on the Creation. To Acco'IL. v. n. [See COIL.] To Crowd; to keep a coil about; to bus tle; to be in a hurry. Out of use,

About the cauldron many cooks aceoil'd, With hooks and ladles, as need did require; The while the viands in the vessel boif'd, They did about their business sweat, and sorely toil'd. A'CCOLENT. n. s. [accolens, Lat.] He that Fairy Queen. inhabits near a place; a borderer. Dict. Acco'MMODABLE. adj. [accommodabilis, Lat.] That may be fitted: with the particle to.

Asthere is infinite variety in the circumstances of persons, things, actions, times, and places; so we must be furnished with such general rules as are accommodable to all this variety, by a wise judgment and discretion. Watts' Logick.

To ACCOMMODATE. v. a. [accom modo, Lat.]

1. To supply with conveniencies of any kind. It has with before the thing. These three, The rest do nothing; with this word, stand, stand Accommodated by the place (more charming With their own nobleness, which could have turn'd A distaff to a lance), gilded pale looks. Shaksp. 2. With the particle to, to adapt; to fit; to make consistent with.

He had altered many things, not that they were not natural before, but that he might accom modate himself to the age in which he lived. Dryden on Dramatic Poetry. "Twas his misfortune to light upon an hypothesis, that could not be accommodated to the nature of things, and human affairs; his principles could not be made to agree with that constitution and order which God hath settled in the world.

Locke 3. To reconcile; to adjust what seems inconsistent or at variance; to make consistency appear.

To

Part know how to accommodate St. James and St. Paul better than some late reconcilers. Norris,

ACCOMMODATE. v. n. To be conformable to.

They make the particular ensigns of the twelve tribes accommodate under the twelve signs' of the zodiac. Brown.

Neither sort of chymists have duly considered how great variety there is in the textures and consistencies of compound bodies; and how little the consistence and duration of many of them seem to accommodate and be explicable by the proposed notion. Boyle's Sceptical Chymist. ACCOMMODATE. adj. [accommodatus, Lat.] Suitable; fit: used sometimes with the particle for, but more frequently with to.

They are so acted and directed by nature, as to cast their eggs in such places as are most ar commodate for the exclusion of their young, and where there is food ready for them so soon as they be hatched. Ray on the Creation. In these cases we examine the why, the what, and the how, of things, and propose means a commodate to the end. L'Estrange.

God did not primarily intend to appoint this way of worship, and to impose it upon them as that which was most proper and agreeable him, but that he condescended to it as most sommodate to their present state and inclination. Tillotson.

ACCOMMODATELY, adv. [from accommodate.] Suitably; fitly. ACCOMMODATION. n. s. [from accommodate.]

r. Provision of conveniencies.

2. In the plural, conveniencies; things requisite to ease or refreshment.

The king's commissioners were to have such accommodations, as the other thought fit to leave to them; who had been very civil to the king's commissionere. Clarendon

3. Adaptation; fitness: with the particle to. Indeed that disputing physiology is no accom modation to your designs, which are not to teach men to cant endlessly about materia and forma. Glanville's Scepsis.

The organization of the body, with accommodation to its functions, is fitted with the most curious mechanism. Hale's Origin.

4. Composition of a difference; reconciliation; adjustment. ACCO'MPANABLE. adj. [from accompany.] Sociable. Not used.

A show, as it were, of an accompanable solitariness, and of a civil wildness. Sidney. ACCOMPANIER. n. s. [from accompany.] The person that makes part of the company; companion. Dict.

To ACCOMPANY. v. q. [accompagner, Fr.) To be with another as a companion. It is used both of persons and things.

Go visit her, in her chaste bower of rest, Accompany'd with angel-like delights. Spenser.

The great business of the senses being to make us take notice of what hurts or advantages the body, it is wisely ordered by nature, that pain should accompany the reception of several ideas.

Locke.

As folly is usually accompanied with perverse ness, so it is here. Swift. To ACCO'MPANY. v. n. To associate with; to become a companion to.

No man in effect doth accompany with others, but he learneth, ere he is aware, some gesture, voice, or fashion. Bacon's Nat. Hist. ACCOMPLICE. n. s. [complice, Fr. from complex, a word in the barbarous Latin, much in use.]

1. An associate; a partaker: usually in

an ill sense.

Who, should they steal for want of his relief, He judg'd himself accomplice with the thief. Dryden. To ACCOMPLISH. v. a. [accomplir, Fr. from compleo, Lat.]

1. To complete; to execute fully; as, to accomplish a design.

He that is far off, shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near, shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth, and is besieged, shall die by the famine. Thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. Ezekiel

2. To complete a period of time.

3.

He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Daniel

To fulfil, as a prophecy.

The vision,

Which I made known to Lucius ere the stroke
Of this yet scarce cold battle, at this instant
Is full accomplish'd.
Shakspeare.

We see every day those events exactly accom plished, which our Saviour foretold at so great a distance. Addison

4. To gain; to obtain.

Tell him from me (as he will win my love) He bear himself with honourable action; Such as he hath observ'd in noble ladies

Unto their lords, by them accomplished. Shake

I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap. Oh miserable thought, and more unlikely, Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns. Shaks. 5. To adorn, or furnish, either mind or body.

From the tents

O that I never had! fond wish too late, Was in the vale of Sorec, Dalila, That specious monster, my accomplish'd snare. Milton's Samson Agonist. Acco'MPLISHER, n. s. [from accomplish.} The person that accomplishes. Dict. Acco'MPLISHMENT. n. s. [accomplissement, Fr.]

1. Completion; full performance; perfection.

This would be the accomplishment of their common felicity, in case, by their evil, either through destiny or advice, they suffered not the occasion to be lost. Sir John Hayward. Thereby he might evade the accomplishment of those afflictions he now but gradually endureth. Brown's Vulgar Errors. He thought it impossible to find, in any one body, all those perfections which he sought for the accomplishment of a Helena; because nature, in any individual person, makes nothing that is perfect in all its parts. Dryden's Dufresncy, 2. Completion, as of a prophecy.

The miraculous success of the apostles preaching, and the accomplishment of many of their predictions, which, to those early christians, were matters of faith only, are to us matters of sight and experience. Atterbury's Sermons. 3. Embellishment; elegance; ornament of mind or body.

Young heirs, and elder brothers, from their own reflecting upon the estates they are born to, and therefore thinking all other accomplishments unnecessary, are of no manner of use but to keep up their families. Addison's Spectator.

4. The act of obtaining or perfecting any thing; attainment; completion.

The means suggested by policy and worldly wisdom, for the attainment of those earthly enjoyments, are unfit for that purpose, not only upon the account of their insufficiency for, but also of their frequent opposition and contrariety to, the accomplishment of such ends. South. ACCO'MPT. n. s. [Fr. compter and compte, anciently accompter. Skinner.] An account; a reckoning. See AccOUNT. The soul may have time to call itself to a just accompt of all things past, by means whereof repentance is perfected. Hooker.

Each Christmas they accompts did clear; And wound their bottom round the year. Prior. ACCOMPTANT. n. s. [accomptant, Fr.] A reckoner; a computer. See Accoun

TANT.

As the accompt runs on, generally the accomptant goes backward. South's Sermons. Acco'MPTING DAY. The day on which the reckoning is to be settled.

To whom thou much dost owe, thou much must pay;

Think on the debt against th' accompting day. Sir J. Denham. To ACCOʻRD. v. a. [derived, by some, from corda, the string of a musical instrument; by others, from corda, hearts; in the first implying harmony, in the other, unity.]

1. To make agree; to adjust one thing to another: with the particle to...

The first sports the shepherds shewed, were full of such leaps and gambols, as being accorded to the pipe which they bore in their mouths, even as they danced, made a right picture of their chief god Pan, and his companions the satyrs.

Sidney,

Her hands accorded the lute's musick to the voice; her panting heart danced to the musick. Sidney. The lights and shades, whose well accorded strife Gives all the strength and colour of our life. Pope's Epistles. 2. To bring to agreement; to compose; to accommodate.

Men would not rest upon bare contracts with out reducing the debt into a specialty, which created much certainty, and accorded many suits. Sir M. Hale. To Acco'RD, v.n. To agree; to suit one with another: with the particle with. Things are often spoke, and seldom meant; But that my heart accordeth with my tongue, Seeing the deed is meritorious,

And to preserve my sovereign from his foe.

Shakspeare.

Several of the main parts of Moses' history, as concerning the flood, and the first fathers of the several nations of the world, do very well accord with the most ancient accounts of profane hisTillotson. tory.

Jarring int'rests of themselves create Th' according musick of a well-mixt state. Pope. AccO'RD, n. s. [accord, Fr.]

1. A compact; an agreement; adjustment of a difference.

There was no means for him to satisfy all obligations to God and man, but to offer himself for a mediator of an accord and peace between them. Bacon's Henry VII.

If both are satisfy'd with this accord, Swear by the laws of knighthood on my sword. Dryden's Fables. 2. Concurrence; union of mind. At last such grace I found, and means I wrought, That I that lady to my spouse had won, Accord of friends, consent of parents sought, Affiance made, my happiness begun. Fairy Q They gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and Israel, with one accord.

Joshua 3. Harmony; symmetry; just correspondence of one thing with another.

Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution. Dryden's Dufresnoy. 4. Musical note.

Try, if there were in one steeple two bells of unison, whether the striking of the one would move the other, more than if it were another accord. Bacon's Natural History..

We must not blame Apollo, but his lute, If false accords from her false strings be sent. Sir John Davies. 5. Own accord; voluntary motion; used both of persons and things.

Ne Guyon yet spake word,
Till that they came unto an iron door,
Which to them open'd of its own accord. Fairy Q.

Will you blame any man for doing that of his own accord, which all men should be compelled to do, that are not willing of themselves? Hooker.

All animal substances, exposed to the air, turn alkaline of their own accord; and some vegetables, by heat, will not turn acid, but alkaline. Arbuthnot on Aliments. 6. Action in speaking, correspondent to the words.

Titus, I am come to talk with thee.-No, not a word: how can I grace my talk, Wanting a hand to give it that accord? Shaksp. AccO'RDANCE. n. s. [from accord.] 1. Agreement with a person: with the particle with.

And prays he may in long accordance bide With that great worth which hath such wonders wrought. Fairfax.

2. Conformity to something.

The only way of defining of sin, is, by the contrariety to the will of God; as of good, by the accordance with that will. Hammond. ACCO'RDANT. adj. [accordant, Fr.] Willing; in a good humour. Not in use.

The prince discovered that he loved your niece, and meant to acknowledge it this night in a

dance; and if he found her accordant, he meant to take the present time by the top, and instantly break with you of it. Shakspeare. ACCO'RDING. prep. [from accord, of which it is properly a participle, and is therefore never used but with to.] 1. In a manner suitable to; agreeably to; in proportion.

Our churches are places provided, that the people might there assemble themselves in due and decent manner, according to their several degrees and orders. Hooker.

but, by gradually softening the pronunciation, in time the orthography changed to account.]

1. A computation of debts or expences; a register of facts relating to money..

At many times I brought in my accounts, Laid them before you; you would throw them off, And say you found them in mine honesty. Shaks.

When my young master has once got the skill of keeping accounts (which is a business of reason more than arithmetic), perhaps it will not be amiss, that his father from thenceforth require him to do it in all his concernments. Locke. 2. The state or result of a computation ; as, the account stands thus between us. Behold this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account. Ecclesiasticus.

also its commandments.

Noble is the fame that is built on candour and ingenuity, according to those beautiful lines of sir John Denham. Spectator.

2. With regard to.

God made all things in number, weight, and measure, and gave them to be considered by us according to these properties, which are inherent in created beings. Holder on Time. 3. In proportion. The following phrase is, I think, vitious.

A man may, with prudence and a good conscience, approve of the professed principles of one party more than the other, according as he thinks they best promote the good of church and state. Swift's Church of Eng. Man. ACCORDINGLY. adv. [from accord.] Agreeably; suitably; conformably. As the actions of men are of sundry distinct kinds, so the laws thereof must accordingly be distinguished. Hooker.

Sirrah, thou 'rt said to have a stubborn soul, That apprehends no further than this world; And squar'st thy life accordingly. Shakspeare. Whoever is so assured of the authority and sense of scripture, as to believe the doctrine of it, and to live accordingly, shall be saved.

Tillotson.

Mealy substances, fermented, turn sour. Ascordingly, given to a weak child, they still retain their nature; for bread will give them the cholic. Arbuthnot on Aliments. To ACCO'ST. v. a. [accoster, Fr.] To speak to first; to address; to salute. You mistake, knight: accost her, front her, board her, woo her, assail her. Shakspeare. At length, collecting all his serpent wiles, With soothing words renew'd, him thus accosts. Paradise Regained. I first accosted him: I sued, I sought, And, with a loving forcé, to Pheneus brought. Dryden's Æneid. Acco'STABLE. adj. [from accost.] Easy of access; familiar. Not in use.

They were both indubitable, strong, and high. minded men, yet of sweet and accostable nature, almost equally delighting in the press and affluence of dependants and suitors. Wotton. ACCOUNT. n. s. [from the old French

accompt, from computus, Lat. It was originally written accompt, which see;

Such a state of persons or things, as may make them more or less worthy of being considered in the reckoning, value, or estimation.

For the care that they took for their wives and their children, their brethren and kinsfolks, was in least account with them: but the greatest and principal fear was for the holy temple.

2 Maccab.

That good affection, which things of smaller account have once set on work, is by so much Hooker. the more easily raised higher.

I should make more account of their judgment, who are men of sense, and yet have never touched a pencil, than of the opinion given by the greatest part of painters. Dryden 4. Profit; advantage: to turn to account, is to produce advantage.

We would establish our souls in such a solid and substantial virtue, as will turn to account in that great day, when it must stand the test of infinite wisdom and justice. Spectator.

5. Distinction; dignity; rank.

There is such a peculiarity in Homer's manner of apostrophizing Eumaus: it is generally applied, by that poet, only to men of account and distinction. Pope's Odyssey.

6. A reckoning verified by finding the value of a thing equal to what it was accounted.

Considering the usual motives of human actions, which are pleasure, profit, and ambition, I cannot yet comprehend how those persons find their account in any of the three.

Swift.

sum

7. A reckoning referred to, or charged upon, any particular person; and thence, figuratively, regard; con. sideration; sake.

If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee aught, put that on my account. Philemon. This must be always remembered, that nothing can come into the account of recreation, that is not done with delight. Locke.

In matters where his judgment led him to oppose men on a public account, he would do it vigorously and heartily. Atterbury.

The assertion is our Saviour's, though uttered by him in the person of Abraham, the father of the faithful; who, on the account of that character, is very fitly introduced. Atterbury.

These tribunes kindled great dissensions between the nobles and the commons, on the