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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![They, that escape best in the temperate zone, would be accloycd with long nights, very tedious, no less than forty days. Ray on the Creation. To Acco'il, ak-koir.229 v. n. [See COIL.] To crowd, to keep a coil about, to bustle, to be in a hurry: a word now out of use. About the cauldron many cooks accoiVd, With hooks and ladles as need did require; The while the viands in the vessel boil'd, They did about their business sweat, and sorely toil'd. Fairy Queen. A'ccolent, ak'ko-lent.644 n. s. [accolens^ Lat.] He that inhabits near a place; a borderer. Diet Acco'mmodable, ak-kom'mo-da-bl. adj. [accom?nodabilis, Lat.] That which may be fitted; with the particle to. As there is infinite variety in the circumstances ef 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 judg- ment and discretion. Watts^s Logick. To ACCO'MMODATE, ak-k6m'mo- date. v. a. [accommodo, Lat.] 1. To supply with conveniences 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 tun. d A distaff to a lance) gilded pale looks. Shaksp. Cymbeline. 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 accommodate 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 he made to agree with that constitution and order which God hath settled in the world. Locke. 3. To reconcile; to adjust what seems in- consistent or at variance; to make con- sistency appear. Part know, how to accommodate St. James and St. Paul, better than some late reconcilers. Norris. To Acco'mmodate, ak-koip/mo-date. v. n. To be conformable to. They make the particular ensigns of the twelve tribes accommodate, unto the twelve signs of the zo- diac. Brown. Neither sort of chymists have duly considered, how great variety there is in the textures and con- sistencies of compound bodies; and how little the consistence and duration of many of them seem to accommodate and he explicable by the proposed no- tion. Boyle's Scept. Chym. Acco'mmodate, ak-kom'mo-date. 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 accommo- date 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 accommo- date to the end. VEstrange. 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 to him: but that he condescended to it, as most accommodate to their present state aud inclination. Tillotson. Acco'mmodately, ak-kom'mo-date-le.91 adv. Tfrom accommodated] Suitably, fitly. Accommodation, ak-kom-mo-da'shtin. n. s. [from accommodate.] 1. Provision of conveniences. 2. In the plural, conveniencies, things re- quisite to ease or refreshment. The king's commissioners were to have such ac- commodations, as the other thought fit to leave to them; who had been very civil to the king's com- missioners. Clarendon, b. viii. 3. Adaptation, fitness; with the particle to. Indeed that disputing physiology is no accommo- dation to jour designs; which are not to teach men, to cant endlessly about materia and forma. danville's Scepsis. The organization of the body, with accommodation to its functions, is fitted with the most curious me- chanism. HaWs Origin. 4. Composition of a difference, reconcilia- tion, adjustment. Acco'mpanable, ak-kiim'pa-na-bl. adj. [from accompany?] Sociable: a word now not used. A show (as it were) of an accompanable solitari- ness, and of a civil wildness. Sidney, b. i. Acco'mpanier, ak-kum'-pa-ne-tir. n. s. [from accompany.] The person, that makes part of the company; companion. Diet. To ACCO'MPANY^k-kum'pa-ne.1^ -u. a. [accotnpagner, Fr.] To be with ano- ther, 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, Sonnet iii. The great business of the senses being to make us take notice of what hurts or advantages the bo- dy, it is wisely ordered by nature, that pain should accompany the reception of several ideas. Locke. As folly is usually accompanied with perverseness, so it is here. SwifVs Short View of Ireland. To Acco'mpany, ak-ktim'pa-ne. 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 Natural History. Acco'mplice, ak-kom'-plis.142 n.s. [com- plice, Fr. from complex, a word in the barbarous Lat. much in use.] 1. An associate, a partaker; usually in an ill sense. There were several scandalous reports, indus- triously spread by Wood and his accomplices, to dis- courage all opposition against his infamous project. Swift. 2. A partner, or a co-operator; in a sense indifferent. If a tongue would be talking, without a mouth; what could it have done, when it had all its organs of speech, and accomplices of sound, about it? Addison, Spectator, No. 247. 3. It is used with the particle to, before a thing; and with, before a person. Childless Arturious, vastly rich before, Thus by his losses multiplies his store; Suspected for accomplice to the fire, That burnt his palace, but to build it higher. Dryd. Juv. Sat. Who, should they steal for want of his relief He judg'd himself accomplice with the thief. Dryd. Fables. To ACCOMPLISH, ak-k6m'plish, 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 thai rcmaineth, and is besieged, shall die by the famine. Thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. Ezekiel, vi. 12. 2. To complete a period of time. He would accomplish seventy years, in the deso- lations of Jerusalem. Daniel, ix. 2 3. 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 accomplished. Shaksj). Cymbeline. We see every day those events exactly accom- plished, which our Saviour foretold at so great a dis- tance. 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. Shakspeare^s Taming of a Shrcv I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap. Oh miserable thought, and more unlikely, Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns. Shaksp. Henry V. 5. To adorn or furnish either mind or bo- dy. From the tents, The armourers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation. Shaksp. Henry V, Accomplished, ak-kom'pllsh-ed. parti- cipial adj. 1. Complete in some qualification. For, who expects, that under a tutor a young gen- tleman should be an accomplished publick orator or logician. Loeb. 2. Elegant, finished; in respect of embel- lishments; used commonly of acquired qualifications, without including moral excellence. The next I took to wife, (0, that I never had! fond wish too late) Was in the vale of Sorec, Dalila; That specious monster, my accomplished snare. Sampson Jlgon. Acco'mplisheu, ak-kom'plish-iir. n. s. [from accomplish.] The person that accomplishes. Diet. Accomplishment, ak-kom'plish-mint. n. s. [accomplissement, Fr.] 1. Completion, full performance, perfec- tion. This would be the accomplishment of their com- mon felicity; in case by their evil, either through destiny or advice, they suffered not the occasion to be lost. Sir John Haywood. Thereby he might evade the accomplishment of those afflictions, he now but gradually endureth. Brown's Vulgar Enours. He thought it impossible to find, in anyonebodj, all those perfections which he sought for the accom- plishment of a Helena; because nature, in any in- dividual person, makes nothing that is perfect in all its parts. Dryden^s Dufresiwy, Prefact. 2. Completion; as, of a prophecy. The miraculous success of the apostles' preachiri, 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 Atterburyes 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 unne- cessary, are of no manner of use, but to keep »P their families. Addison, Spectator, No. 1»](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21133803_0148.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
