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.
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1819
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    1 profess requital to a hair's breadth; not only simple office of love, but in all the accoutre- i|ilement, and ceremony of it Shakspeare's Merry Wives of Windsor. 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. Tillatson, Sermon xxviii. 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, according to the different parts he was to act in, them. Addison, Spectator, No. 201. How gay with all th' accoutrements of war, The Britons come, with gold well-fraught they come. Phil. ACCRETION, ak-kre'shun. n. s. [ac- cretio, Lat.] The act of growing to another, so as to increase it. Plants do nourish; animated bodies do not: they have an accretion, but no alimentation. Bacon's Nat. Hist. No. 602. The changes seem to be effected by the exhaling of the moisture; which may leave the tinging cor- puscles more dense, and something augmented by the accretion of the oily and earthy parts of that moisture. Newton's Optics. Infants support abstinence worst, from the quan- tity of aliment consumed in accretion. Arbuthnot on Aliments. Aocre'tive, ak-kre'tlv.188 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's Scepsis. To ACCRO'ACH, ak-krotsh'.*8 v. a. [accrocher, Fr.] To draw to one, as with a hook; to gripe; to draw away by degrees, what is another's. Accroachment, ak-krotsh-ment. n. s. from accroach.'] The act of accroaching. Diet. To ACCRU'E, ak-krdo'.33 v. n. [from the participle accru, formed from accroitre, Fr.] 1. To accede to, to be added to; as a na- tural production or effect, without any particular respect to good or ill. The Son of God, by his incarnation, hath chang- ed the manner of that personal subsistence; no al- teration thereby accruing to the nature of God. Hooker, b. v. § 54. 2. To be added, as an advantage or im- provement, 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 ac- crues 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. Smith's Sermons. Let the evidence of such a particular miracle be never so bright and clear, yet it is still but parti- cular; 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 ap- proved, and consented to, by men of all ranks and capacities, of all tempers and interests, of all ages and nations. Atterburifs Sermons. 3. To append to, or arise from: as, an ill consequence; this sense seems to be less proper. 111 s scholar Iristode, as in many other particulars, so likenise on this, did justly oppose him, and he- came one of the anthers; choosing a certain benefit, before the hazard that might accrue from the dis- respects of ignorant persons. Wilkins. 4. In a commercial sense, to be produced, or arise; as, profits The yearly benefit that, out of those his works, accrueth to her majesty, amounteth to one thousand 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 Misc. Accuba'tion, ak-ku-ba'slmn. n. s. [from accuboy to lie down to, Lat.] The. an- cient posture of leaning at meals. It will appeal-, that accubation, or lying down at meals, was a gesture used by very many nations. Brown's Vulgar Errours. To Accu'mb, ak-kumb'.347 v. a. [accum- bo, Lat ] To lie at the table, according to the ancient manner. Diet. Accu'mbent, ak-kum'bent. adj. [accum- bens, Lat ] Leaning. The Roman recumbent, or (more properly) ac- cumbent posture in eating, was introduced after the first Punic war. Arbuthnot on Coins. To ACCUMULATE, ak-ku'mu-late. v. a. [from accumulo, 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 horror's head horrors accumulate; For nothing canst thou to damnation add. Shakspeare's Othello. Crusht by imaginary treasons weight, Which too much merit did accumulate. Sir John Denham. Accumulation, ak-ku-mu-la'shun. n. s. [from accumulate.] 1. The act of accumulating. One of my place in Syria, his lieutenant, For quick accumulatimi 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 embroi- dering, 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 ex- hausted, it looks, as there were regular accumula- tions and gatherings of it, as of other humours in the body. Arbuthnot on Diet. Accumulative, ak-ku'mu-la-tiv. adj. [from accumulate.] 1. That, which accumulates. . That, which is accumulated. If the injury meet not with meekness, it then ac- quires another accumulative guilt; and stands an- swerable not only for its own positive ill, but for all the accidental, which it causes in the sufferer. Government of the Tongue. Accumulator, ak-kiVmu-la-tur.fi21 n. s. [from accumulated] He, that accumu- lates; a gatherer or heaper together. Injuries may fall upon the passive man; yet, with- out revenge, there would be no broils and quarrels, the great accumulators and multipliers of injuries. Decay of Piety. A'ccuracy, ak'ku-ra-se. n. s. [accuratio, Lat.] Exactness, nicetv. This perfect artifice and accuracy might have been omitted, and yet they have made shift to move. More. Quickness of imagination is seen in the invention, fertility in the fancy, and the accuracy in the ex- pression. Dryden. The man who hath the stupid ignorance, or hard- ened effrontery, to insult the revealed will of God; or the petulant conceit, to turn it into ridicule; or the arrogance, to make his own perfections the measure of the Divinity: or, at best, that can collate a text, or quote an authority, with an insipid acciir racy; or demonstrate a plain proposition, in all for- mality: these now are the only men worth mention- ing. Delany. We consider the uniformity of the whole design, accuracy of the calculations, and skill in restoring and comparing passages of ancient authors. Arbuthnot on Coins. A'CCURATE, ak'ku-ratc. ■*. adj. [accu- ratus, Lat.] 1. Exact, as opposed to negligence or ig- norance, applied to persons. 2. Exact, without defect or failure, ap- plied to things. No man living has made more accurate trials than Reaumure, that brightest ornament of France. Colson. 3. Determinate; precisely fixed. Those conceive, the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below, than indeed they have but in gross. Bacon. Accurately, ak'ku-rate-le. adv. [from accurate.] In an accurate manner; ex- actly, without errour, nicely. The sine of incidence is either accurately, or very nearly, in a given ratio to the sine of refrac- tion. Newton. That all these distances, motions, and quantities of matter, should be so accurately and harmonious- ly 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. A'ocurateness, ak'ku-rate-ness. n. s. [from accurate.] Exactness, nicety. But sometime after, suspecting that in making this observation I had not determined the diame- ter of the sphere with sufficient accurateness, I re- peated the experiment. Neicton. To Accu'rse, ak-kurse'. 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 hardy, as to defend their lord. Sir Walter Raleigh's Essays. Accu'rsed, ak-kur'sed.362 part. adj. 1. That, which 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, which deserves the curse; exe- crable, hateful, detestable; and, by con- sequence, wicked, malignant. A swift blessing May soon return, to this our suffering country, Under a hand accurs'd! Shakspt ore's Macbeth. 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. Drydtn. Accu'sable, ak-ku'za-bl.408 adj. [from