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count of Coriolanus, a nobleman whom the latter had impeached. Swift. Nothing can recommend itself to our love, on any other account, but either as it promotes our present, or is a means to assure to us a future happiness. Rogers' Sermons. Sempronius gives no thanks on this account.

Addison's Cato. 8. A narrative; relation: in this use it may seem to be derived from conte, Fr. a tale, a narration.

9. The review or examination of an affair taken by authority; as, the magistrate took an account of the tumult.

Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants; and when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. Matthew.

10. The relation and reasons of a transaction given to a person in authority.

What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Shakspeare.

The true ground of morality can only be the will and law of a God who sees men in the dark, has in his hands rewards and punishments, and power enough to call to account the proudest offender. Locke.

11. Explanation; assignment of causes. It is easy to give account, how it comes to pass, that though all men desire happiness, yet their wills carry them so contrarily. Locke.

It being, in our author's account, a right acquired by begetting, to rule over those he had begotten, it was not a power possible to be in-herited, because the right, being consequent to and built on, an act perfectly personal, made that power so too, and impossible to be inherited.

Locke.

12. An opinion previously established.

These were designed to join with the forces at sea, there being prepared a number of flat-bottomed boats to transport the land forces under the wing of the great navy for they made no account, but that the navy should be absolutely master of the seas.

Bacon.

A prodigal young fellow, that had sold his clothes, upon the sight of a swallow, made account that summer was at hand, and away went his shirt too. L'Estrange.

13. The reasons of any thing collected."

Being convinced, upon all accounts, that they had the same reason to believe the history of our Saviour, as that of any other person to which they themselves were not actually eye-witnesses, they were bound, by all the rules of historical faith, and of right reason, to give credit to this history.

14. In law.

Addison.

Account is, in the common law, taken for a writ or action brought against a man, that, by means of office or business undertaken, is to render an account unto another; as a bailiff toward his master, a guardian to his ward. Cowell. To ACCOUNT. v. a. [See AcCOUNT.] 1. To esteem; to think; to hold in opinion.

That also was accounted a land of giants.
Deuteronomy.

2. To reckon; to compute.

Neither the motion of the moon, whereby months are computed, nor the sun, whereby

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To ACCOUNT. v. n. 1. To reckon.

The calendar months are likewise arbitrarily and unequally settled by the same power; by which months we, to this day, account, and they measure and make up that which we call the Julian year. Holder on Time.

2. To give an account; to assign the causes in which sense it is followed by the particle for.

If any one should ask, why our general con tinued so easy to the last? I know no other way to account for it, but by that unmeasurable love of wealth which his best friends allow to be his predominant passion.

Savift. 3. To make up the reckoning; to answer: with for.

Then thou shalt see him plung'd, when least he fears,

At once accounting for his deep arrears. Dryden. They have no uneasy presages of a future reckoning, wherein the pleasures they now taste must be accounted for; and may, perhaps, be outweighed by the pains which shall then lay hold of them. Atterbury's Sermons. 4. To appear as the medium, by which any thing may be explained.

Such as have a faulty circulation through the lungs, ought to eat very little at a time; because the increase of the quantity of fresh chyle must make that circulation still more uneasy; which, indeed, is the case of consumptive and some asthmatic persons, and accounts for the symptoms they are troubled with after eating. Arbuth. Acco'UNTABLE. adj. [from account.] Of whom an account may be required; who must answer for: followed by the particle to before the person, and for before the thing.

Accountable to none But to my conscience and my God alone. Oldham. Thinking themselves excused from standing upon their own legs, or being accountable for their own conduct, they very seldom trouble Locke on Education. themselves with enquiries.

The good magistrate will make no distinction; for the judgment is God's; and he will look upon himself as accountable at his bar for the equity of it. Atterbury's Sermons. ACCOUNTANT. adj. [from account.] Accountable to; responsible for. Not in

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A computer; a man skilled or employed in accounts.

The different compute of divers states; the short and irreconcileable years of some; the exceeding errour in the natural frame of others; and the false deductions of ordinary accountants in most. Brown's Vulgar Errours. ACCOUNT-BOOK. n. s. A book containing

accounts.

I would endeavour to comfort myself upon the loss of friends, as I do upon the loss of money; by turning to my account-book, and seeing whether I have enough left for my support.

Swift. ACCOUNTING. n. s. [from account.] The act of reckoning, or making up of ac

counts.

This method, faithfully observed, must keep a man from breaking, or running behind-hand, in his spiritual estate; which, without frequent accountings, he will hardly be able to prevent. South's Sermons.

To Acco'UPLE. v. a. [accoupler, Fr.] To join; to link together. We now use couple.

He sent a solemn embassage to treat a peace and league with the king; accoupling it with an article in the nature of a request. Bacon

To ACCOURAGE. v. a. [Obsolete. See COURAGE.] To animate.

That forward pair she ever would assuage, When they would strive due reason to exceed;

But that same froward twain would accourage, And of her plenty add unto their need. Fairy Q To ACCOURT. v. a. [See To COURT.] To entertain with courtship or courtesy. Not in use.

Who all this while were at their wanton rest, Accourting each her friend with lavish feast. Fairy Queen. To ACCOUTRE. v. a. [accoûtrer, Fr.] To dress; to equip.

Is it for this they study? to grow pale, And miss the pleasures of a glorious meal? For this, in rags accoutred are they seen, And made the May-game of the public spleen? Dryden. ACCOUTREMENT, n. s. [accoûtrement, Fr.] Dress; equipage; furniture relating to the person; trappings; orna

ments.

I profess requital to a hair's breadth; not only in the simple office of love, but in all the accou trement, complement, and ceremony of it. Shaks.

Christianity is lost among them in the trappings and accoutrements of it; with which, instead of adorning religion, they have strangely disguised it, and quite stifled it in the crowd of external rites and ceremonies. Tillotson.

I have seen the pope officiate at St. Peter's, where, for two hours together, he was busied in putting on or off his different accoutrements, açcording to the different parts he was to act in them. Addison's Spectator. How gay, with all th' accoutrements of war, The Britons come, with gold well-fraught they Philips ACCRETION. n. s. [accretio, Lat.] The act of growing to another, so as to increase it.

come.

Plants do nourish; inanimate bodies do not; they have an accretion, but no alimentation. Bacon's Natural History.

The changes seem to be effected by the exhaling of the moisture, which may leave the tinging corpuscles more dense, and something augmented by the accretion of the oily and earthly parts of that moisture. Newton's Optics. Infants support abstinence worst, from the quantity of aliment consumed in accretion. Arbuthnot on Aliments ACCRETIVE. adj. [from accretion.] Growing; that which by growth is added.

If the motion be very slow, we perceive it not? we have no sense of the accretive motion of plants and animals; and the sly shadow steals away upon the dial, and the quickest eye can discover no more but that it is gone. Glanville. To ACCRO'ACH. v. a. [accrocher, Fr.] To draw to one, as with a hook; to gripe; to draw away by degrees what is another's. ACCROACHMENT. n. s. [from accroach.] The act of accroaching. Dict. To ACCRUE. v. n. [from the participle accrû, formed from accroître, Fr.]

1. To accede to; to be added to; as a natural production or effect, without any particular respect to good or ill.

The Son of God, by his incarnation, hath changed the manner of that personal subsistence; no alteration thereby accruing to the nature of God. Hooker. 2. To be added, as an advantage or improvement, in a sense inclining to good rather than ill; in which meaning it is more frequently used by later authors.

From which compact there arising an obligation upon every one, so to convey his meaning, there accrues also a right to every one, by the same signs, to judge of the sense or meaning of the person so obliged to express himself. South.

Let the evidence of such a particular miracle be never so bright and clear, yet it is still but particular; and must therefore want that kind of force, that degree of influence, which accrues to a standing general proof, from its having been tried or approved, and consented to, by men of all ranks and capacities, of all tempers and in terests, of all ages and nations. Atterbury 3. To append to, or arise from, as an ill consequence: this sense seems to be less proper.

His scholar Aristotle, as in many other par ticulars, so likewise in this, did justly oppose him, and became one of the authors; choosing a certain benefit, before the hazard that might accrue from the disrespects of ignorant persons. Wilkins

4. In a commercial sense, to be produced, or to rise, as profit.

The yearly benefit that, out of those his works, accrueth to her majesty, amounteth to one thou sand pounds. Carew's Survey. The great profits which have accrued to the duke of Florence from his free port, have set several of the states of Italy on the same project, Addison on Italy.

5. To follow, as loss; a vitious use.

The benefit or loss of such a trade accruing to the government, until it comes to take root in the nation. Temple's Miscellanies. ACCUBATION. n. s. [from accubo, to lie down to, Lat.] The ancient posture of leaning at meals.

It will appear that accubation, or lying down at meals, was a gesture used by very many nations. Brown's Vulgar Errours. To ACCU'MB. v. a. [accumbo, Lat.] To lie at the table, according to the ancient Dict.

manner.

ACCUMBENT. adj. [accumbens, Lat.]
Leaning.

The Roman recumbent, or, more properly, accumbent posture in eating, was introduced after the first Punic war. Arbuthnot on Coins. To ACCUMULATE. v. a. from accu mulo, Lat. To heap one thing upon another; to pile up; to heap together. It is used either literally, as, to accumulate money; or figuratively, as, to accumulate merit or wickedness.

If thou dost slander her, and torture me,
Never pray more; abandon all remorse;
On horrors head horrors accumulate;

For nothing canst thou to damnation add. Shaks.
Crusht by imaginary treasons weight,
Which too much merit did accumulate.

Sir John Denham.
ACCUMULATION. n. s. [from accumulate.]

1. The act of accumulating.

One of my place in Syria, his lieutenant, For quick accumulation of renown, Which he achiev'd by th' minute, lost his favour, Shakspeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Some, perhaps, might otherwise wonder at such an accumulation of benefits, like a kind of embroidering or listing of one favour upon another. Wotton.

2. The state of being accumulated.

By the regular returns of it in some people, and their freedom from it after the morbid matter is exhausted, it looks as there were regular accumulations and gatherings of it, as of other humours in the body. Arbuthnot on Diet. ACCUMULATIV. adj. [from accumulate.] 1. That does accumulate. 2. That is accumulated.

If the injury meet not with meekness, it then acquires another accumulative guilt, and stands answerable not only for its own positive ill, but

for all the accidental which it causes in the sufferer. Government of the Tongue. A CUM ATOR. n. s. [from accumulate.] He that accumulates; a gatherer or heaper together.

Injuries may fall upon the passive man, yet, without revenge, there would be no broils and quarrels, the great accumulators and multipliers of injuries. Decay of Piety.. ACCURACY. n. s. [accuratio, Lat.] Exactness; nicety.

This perfect artifice and accuracy might have been omitted, and yet they have made shift to More.

Rove.

Quickness of imagination is seen in the invention, fertility in the fancy, and the accuracy in the expression. Dryden. The man who hath the stupid ignorance, or

hardened effrontery! to insult the revealed will of God; or the petulent conceit to turn it into ridicule; or the arrogance to make his own per fections the measure of the Divinity; or, at best, that can collate a text, or quote an authority, with an insipid accuracy; or demonstrate a plain proposition, in all formality; these now are the only men worth mentioning. Delang."

We consider the uniformity of the whole de sign, accuracy of the calculations, and skill in restoring and comparing passages of ancient authors. Arbuthnot on Coins, A'CCURATE. adj. [accuratus, Lat.] 1. Exact, as opposed to negligence or ignorance: applied to persons.

2. Exact; without defect-or failure: applied to things.

3.

No man living has made more accurate trials than Reaumure, the brightest ornament of France. Colson

Determinate; precisely fixed.

Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below, than indeed they have but in gross. Bacon A'CURATELY. adv. [from accurate.] In an accurate manner; exactly; without errour; nicely.

The sine of incidence is either accurately, or very nearly, in a given ratio to the sine of re fraction. Newton.

That all these distances, motions, and quantities of matter, should be so accurately and harmoniously adjusted in this great variety of our system, is above the fortuitous hits of blind material causes, and must certainly flow from that eternal fountain of wisdom.

Bentley. ACCURATENESS. n. s. [from accurate] Exactness; nicety.

But some time after, suspecting that in making this observation I had not determined the diameter of the sphere with sufficient accYrateness, I repeated the experiment. Newton.

To ACCU'RSE. v. a. See CURSE.] TO doom to misery; to invoke misery upon any one.

As if it were an unlucky comet, or as if God had so accursed it, that it should never shine to give light in things concerning our duty any way towards him. Hooker.

When Hildebrand accursed and cast down
from his throne Henry iv. there were none so
ACCUSED. part. adj.
hardy as to defend their lord. Raleigh's Essays.

1. That is cursed or doomed to misery.
"Tis the most certain sign the world's accurst,
That the best things corrupted are and worst.
Denham.
2. That deserves the curse; execrable;
hateful; detestable; and, by conse
quence, wicked; malignant.
A swift blessing
May soon return to this our suffering country,
Under a hand accurs'd!
Shakspeare

The chief part of the misery of wicked men, and those accursed spirits, the devils, is this, that they are of a disposition contrary to God. Tillotson.

They, like the seed from which they sprung, accurst,

Against the gods immortal hatred nurst Dryden. Accu'sABLE. adj. [from the verb accuse.].

That may be censured; blameable; culpable.

There would be a manifest defect, and nature's improvision were justly accusable; if ani mals, so subject unto diseases from bilious causes, should want a proper conveyance for choler. Brown's Vulgar Errours. ACCUSATION. n. s. [from accuse.]

1. The act of accusing.

Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemning,

And of their vain contest appear'd no end. Milt. 2. The charge brought against any one by the accuser.

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3. [In the sense of the courts.] A declaration of some crime preferred before a competent judge, in order to inflict some judgment on the guilty person. Ayliffe's Parergon. ACCUSATIVE. adj. [accusativus, Lat.] A term of grammar, signifying the relation of the noun, on which the action implied in the verb terminates. ACCU'SATORY. adj. [from accuse.] That produces or contains an accusation.

In a charge of adultery, the accuser ought to set forth, in the accusatory libel, some certain Ayliffe.

and definite time.

To ACCU'SE. v. a. [accuso, Lat.] 1. To charge with a crime. It requires the particle of before the subject of accusation.

He stripp'd the bears-foot of its leafy growth; And, calling western winds, accus'd the spring of sloth. Dryden's Virgil. The professors are accused of all the ill practices which may seem to be the ill consequences of their principles. Addison.

2. It sometimes admits the particle for.

Never send up a leg of a fowl at supper while there is a cat or dog in the house, that can be accused for running away with it: but, if there happen to be neither, you must lay it upon the rats, or a strange greyhound. Swift. 3. To blame or censure, in opposition to applause or justification.

Their conscience bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else exRomans. cusing one another.

Your valour would their sloth too much accuse, And therefore, like themselves, they princes choose. Dryden's Tyrannick Love. ACCU'SER. n. s. [from accuse.] He that brings a charge against another.

There are some persons forbidden to be accusers, on the score of their sex, as women; others of their age, as pupils and infants; others upon the account of some crimes committed by them;

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How shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?

Milton.

It has been some advantage to accustom one's self to books of the same edition. Watts.

Accu'sтOм. v. n. To be wont to do any thing. Obsolete.

A boat over-freighted sunk, and all drowned, saving one woman, that in her first popping up again, which most living things accustom, got hold of the boat. Carew.

ACCU'STOMABLE. adj. [from accustom.] Of long custom or habit; habitual; customary.

Animals even of the same original, extraction, and species, may be diversified by accustomable residence in one climate, from what they are in another. Hale's Origin of Mankind. ACCU'STOMABLY. adv. According to

custom.

Touching the king's fines accustomably paid for the purchasing of writs original, I find no certain beginning of them, and do therefore think that they grew up with the chancery. Bacon's Alien. ACCU'STOMANCE. n. s. [accoûtumance, Fr.] Custom; habit; use.

Through accustomance and negligence, and perhaps some other causes, we neither feel it in our own bodies, nor take notice of it in others. Boyle. ACCU'STOMARILY.adv. In a customary manner; according to common or customary practice.

Go on, rhetorick, and expose the peculiar eminency which you accustomarily marshal before logic to public view. Cleaveland. ACCU'STOMARY. adj. [from accustom.] Usual; practised; according to custom. ACCU'STOMED. adj. [from accustom ] According to custom; frequent; usual.

Look how she rubs her hands.-It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands I have known her continue in this

ACE. n. s. [As not only signified a piece á quarter of an hour. Shakspeare's Macbeth. of money, but any integer,from whence is derived the word ace, or unit. Thus As signified the whole inheritance. Arbuthnot on Coins.]

1. An unit; a single point on cards or dice.

When lots are shuffled together in a lap, urn, or pitcher; or if a man blindfold casts a die, what reason in the world can he have to presume, that he shall draw a white stone rather than a black, or throw an ace rather than a sise? South. 2. A small quantity; a particle; an atom.

He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty; but however doubtful or improbable the thing is, coming from him, it must go for an indisputable truth. Government of the Tongue. I'll not wag an ace further: the whole world shall not bribe me to it. Dryden's Spanish Friar. ACEPHALOUS. adj. [ixipan.] Without a head. ACE'R B. adj. [acerbus, Lat.] Acid, with an addition of roughness, as most fruits are before they are ripe. Quincy. ACE'R BITY. N. s. [acerbitas, Lat.] 1. A rough sour taste.

Dict.

2. Sharpness of temper; severity: applied to men.

True it is, that the talents for criticism, namely, smartness, quick censure, vivacity of remark, indeed all but acerbity, seem rather the gifts of youth than of old age. Pope. To ACE'RVATE. v. a. [acervo, Lat.] 10 heap up. Dict. ACERVATION. n. s. [from acervate.] The act of heaping together. ACE'RVOSE. adj. Full of heaps, ACE'SCENT. adj. [acescens, Lat.] That has a tendency to sourness or acidity.

Dict.

The same persons, perhaps, had enjoyed their health as well with a mixture of animal diet, qualified with a sufficient quantity of acescents; as, bread, vinegar, and fermented liquors.

sour.

Arbuthnot on Aliments.

ACETO'SE. adj. That has in it any thing Dict. ACETO'SITY. n. s. [from acetose.] The state of being acetose, or of containing Dict.

sourness.

ACE'IOUS. adj. [from acetum, vinegar, Lat.] Having the quality of vinegar ;

sour.

Raisins, which consist chiefly of the juice of grapes, inspissated in the skins or husks by the avolation of the superfluous moisture through their pores, being distilled in a retort, did not afford any vinous, but rather an acetous spirit.

Boyle. ACHE. n. s. [ace, Sax. x; now generally written ake, and in the plural akes, of one syllable; the primitive manner being preserved chiefly in poetry, for the sake of the measure.] A continued pain. See AKE.

I'll rack thee with old cramps; Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar, That beasts shall tremble at thy din. Shaksp. A coming show'r your shooting corns presage, Old aches throb, your hollow tooth will rage. Swift. To ACHE. v. n. [See ACHE] To be in pain,

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ACHIEVEMENT. n. s. [achevement, Fr.] 1. The performance of an action.

From every coast that heaven walks about, Have thither come the noble martial crew, That famous hard achievements still pursue. Fairy Queen 2. The escutcheon, or ensigns armoriai, granted to any man for the performance of great actions.

Then shall the war, and stern debate, and strife Immortal, be the bus ness of my life; And in thy fame, the dusty spoils among, High on the burnish'd roof my banner shall be hung,

Rank'd with my champions bucklers; and below, With arms revers'd, th' achievements of the foe. Dryden

Achievement, in the first sense, is derived from achieve, as it signifies to perform ; in the second, from achieve, as it imports to gain.

ACHIEVER. n. s. He that performs; he that obtains what he endeavours after. A victory is twice itself, when the achiever brings home full numbers. Shakspeare. A'CHING. n. s. [from ache.] Pain; un

easiness.

When old age comes to wait upon a great and worshipful sinnner, it comes attended with many painful girds and achings, called the gout. South. ACHOR. n. s. [achor, Lat. xwe, Gr. furs fur.] A species of the herpes; it appears with a crusty scab, which causes an itching on the surface of the head, occasioned by a salt sharp serum oozing through the skin. Quinty. ACID. adj. [acidus, Lat. acide, Fr.] Sour; sharp.

Wild trees last longer than garden trees; and, in the same kind, those whose fruit is acid, more than those whose fruit is sweet.

Bacon's Nat. Hist.

Acid, or sour, proceeds from a salt of the same nature, without mixture of oil: in austere tastes, the oily parts have not disentangled themselves from the salts and earthy parts; such is the taste of unripe fruits. Arbuthnot on Aliments, Liquors and substances are called acids, which,

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