A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed a history of the language, and an English grammar (Volume 1).

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Date:: 1819

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$knowing what an accession thereof would accrue to them, by such an addition of property, used all means to prevent it. Swift. Charity indeed, and works of munificence, are the proper discharge of such over-proportioned ac- cessions, and the only virtuous enjoyment of them. Rogers's Sermons. 2. The act of coming to, or joining one's self to; as, accession to a confederacy. Beside, what wise objections he prepares Against my late accession to the wars: Does not the fool perceive, his argument Is with more force against Achilles bent? Dryden's Fables. 3 The act of arriving at; as, the king's ac- cession to the throne. A'ocEssoRiLY,ak'ses-s6-re-le. adv. [from accessory^] In the manner of an acces- sory. Accessory, ak'ses-so-re. adj.65'1 Joined to another thing, so as to increase it; addi- tional. In this kind there is not the least action, but it doth somewhat make to the accessory augmentation of our bliss. Hooker. A'ccessouy, ak's£s-s6-re.fi''7 n. s. [acces- sorius, Lat. acccssoire, Fr. This word, which had anciently a general signifi- cation, 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 command- ment, 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 com- mon 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. Ac- cessory by statute is he, that abets, counsels, or hides any man committing, or having committed an of- ence, made felony by statute. Cowell. By the common law, the accessories cannot be proceeded against, till the principal has received his trial. Spens. State of Ireland. But pause, my soul! and study, ere thou fall On accidental joys, th' essential. Still before accessm~ies do abide A trial, must the principal be try'd. Donne. Now were all transform'd Alike, to serpents all, as accessories To his bold riot. Milton's Par. Lost, b. x. /. 520. 2. Applied to things. An accessory is said to be that which does accede unto some principal fact or thing in law; and, as such, generally speaking, follows the reason and nature of its principal. 'fyl'ffe. A'ccidence, ak'se-dense.w. s. [a corrup- tion of accidents, from accidentia, Lat.] The little book, containing the first ru- diments 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 accidence. Taylor the Water Poet. A'CCIDENT, ak'se-dent. n. s. [accidens, Lat.] 1. The property or quality of any being, which may be separated from it, at least in thought. VOL. I. 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. Davits. An accidental mode, or an accident, is such a mode, as is not necessary to the being of a thing; for the subject maybe 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's Logick. . In grammar, the property of a word. The learning of a language is nothing else, but the informing of ourselves, what composures of let- ters are, by consent and institution, to signify such certain notions of things, with their modalities and accidents. Holder's Elements of Speech. 3. That which happens unforeseen; casu- alty, 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 dis- ease some special accident; in regard whereof, that, whereby others (in the same infirmity, but without the like accident) reeover health, would be to him either hurtful, or at the least unprofitable. Hooker, 6. v. § 9. The flood, and other accidents of time, made it one -common field and pasture with the land of Eden. Raleigh's Hist, of 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. The reformation owed nothing to the good in- tentions of king Henry. He was only an instru- ment of it (as the logicians speak) by accident. Swift's Miscellanies. Accide'ntal, ak-se-deVtal. n. s. [acciden- tal,?^ See ACCIDENT.] A proper- ty non essential. Coneeive, as much as you can, of the essentials of any subject, before you consider its accidentals. Watts' Logick. AccmE'NTAL, ak-se-den'tal. adj. [from cc- cident.~\ 1. Having the quality of an accident, non- essential; used with the particle to, be- fore that, in which the acccident in- heres. A distinction is to be made, between what pleases naturally in itself, and what pleases upon the ac- count of machines, actors, dances, and circumstan- ces, which are merely accidental to the tragedy. Rymer's Tragedies of the last Age. This is accidental to a state of religion, and there- fore ought to be reckoned among the ordinary dif- ficulties of it. Tillotson. 2. Casual, fortuitous, happening by chance. Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade. Shaksp. Meas. for Meas. So shall you hear Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters; Of deaths, put on by cunning and fore'd cause. Shaksp. Hamlet. Look upon things of the most accidental and mu- table 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. South's Sermons. 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. Denham's Sophy. Acicide'ntally, ak-se-den'tal-le*. adv. [from accidental^ C ACC 1. After an accidental manner; nonessen tially. Other points no less concern the commonwealth, though but accidentally depending upon the former. Spenser's St. of Irel. I conclude choler accidentally bitter, and acrimo- nious, but not in itself. Harvey on Consumptions. 2. Casually, fortuitously. Although virtuous men do sometimes accidentally make their way to preferment; yet the world is so corrupted, that no man can reasonably hope to be rewarded in it, merely upon account of his virtue. Swift's Miscellanies. Accide'ntalness, ak-se-den'tal-ness. n. s. [from accidental.^ The quality of be- ing accidental. Diet. Acqj/pient, ak-sip'pe-ent. n. s. [acci/iiens, Lat.] A receiver, perhaps sometimes used for recipient. Diet. To Acci'te, ak-site'. v. a. [accito, Lat.] To call, to summons; a word not in use now. Our coronation done, we will accile 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 saj. Heav'n shorten Harry's happy life one day. Shaksp. Henry IV. Accla'im, ak-klame'. n. s. [acclamo, Lat. from which probably first the verb ac- claim, now lost, and then the noun.] A shout of praise, acclamation. Back from pursuit thy pow'rs,with loud acclaim, Thee only extoll'd. Milton's Par Lost,b.iii.l.391. The herald ends; the vaulted firmament With loud acclaims and vast applause, is rent. Dryd. Fables. Acclama'tion, ak-kla-ma'shvin, n. s. [ac- clamatio, Lat.] Shouts of applause; such as those, with which a victorious army salutes the general. It hath been the custom of Christian men, in to- ken of the greater reverence, to stand, to utter cer- tain words of acclamation; and, at the name of Je- sus to bow. Hooker, b. v. § 29. 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 Returned, not lost. Milt. Par. Lost, b. vi. /. 23. Such an enchantment is there in words; and so fine a thing does it seem to some, to be ruined plau- sibly, and to be ushered to their destruction with panegyrick and acclamation. South. Acclj/vity, ak-kliv've-te.811 n. s. [from acclivus, Lat.] The steepness or slope of a line inclining to the horizon, reck- oned upwards; as, the ascent of an hill is the acclivity, the descent is the de- clivity. Quincy. The men, leaving their wives and younger chil- dren below, do (not without some difficulty) clam- ber 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. Accli'vous, ak-kli'vus. adj. [acclivus, Lat.] Rising with a slope. To Acclo'y, ak-kloe'.329 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. 2. To fill to satiety; in which sense cloy is still in use.$