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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![the verb accuse.] That, which may be censured; blamable, culpable. There would be a manifest defect, and Nature's improvision were justly accusable; if animals, so subject unto diseases from bilious causes, should want a proper conveyance for choler. Brown's Vulgar Errours. Accusa'tion, ak-ku-za'shun. n. s. [from accuse.] V. 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. You read These acusations; and these grievous crimes, Committed by your person and your followers. Shakspeare. All accusation, in the very nature of the thing, still supposing, and being founded upon some law: for, where there is no law, there can be no trans- gression; and, where there can be no transgression, I am sure, there ought to be no accusation. South. 3. [In the sense of the courts] A decla- ration of some crime, preferred before a competent judge, in order to inflict some judgment on the guilty person. Ayliffe's Parergon. Accusative, ak-ku'za-tiv. adj. [accu- sative, Lat.] A term of grammar, sig- nifying the relation of the noun, on which the action implied in the verb termi- nates. Accu'satory. ak-ku'za-to'-re'613 adj. | from accuse.] That, which produceth or containeth an accusation. In a charge of adultery, the accuser ought to set forth, in the accusatory libel, some certain and de- finite time. Ayliffe. To ACCU'SE, ak-kuze'. v. a. [from 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, accused 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./br. Never send up a leg of a fowl at supper, while there is a cat or dog in the house, that can be ac- cused for running away with it: but, if there hap- pen 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 excusing one another. Rom. ii. 15. Your valour would their sloth too much accuse; And therefore, like themselves, they princes choose. Dryden's Tyrannick Lore. Accu'ser, ak-ku'ziir.98 n. s. [from ac- cuse.'] 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; and others, on the score of some filthy lucre they pro- pose to gain thereby; others on the score of their conditions, as libertines against their patrons; and others, through a suspicion of calumny, as having once already given false evidence; and lastly others, on account of their poverty, as not being worth more than fifty aurei. Ayliffe's Parergon. —That good man, who drank the pois'nous draught, With mind serene; and could not wish, to see His vile accuser drink as deep as he. Dryden. If the person accused maketh his innocence plainly to appear upon his trial, the accuser is im- mediately put to an ignominious death; and, out of his goods and lands, the innocent person is quadru- ply recompensed. Gulliver's Travels. To ACCU'STOM, ak-kus'tum. v. a. [accoutumer, Fr.] To habituate, to in- ure, with the particle to. It is used chiefly of persons. 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's Improvement of the Mind. To Accu'stom, ak-kus'tum. 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. Careiv. Acou'stomable, ak-kus'ttim-ma-bl. adj. [from accustom.'] Of long custom or habit; habitual, customary. Animals (even of the same original, extraction, and species) may be diversified by accustomable re- sidence in one climate, from what they are in ano- ther. Hale's Origin of Mankind. A.ccu'stomably, ak-kus'tum-ma-ble. 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 Alienation. Accu'stomance, ak-kus'tum-manse. n. s. [accoutumance, Fr.] Custom, habit, use. Through accustomance and negligence, and per- haps some other causes, we neither feel it in our own bodies, nor take notice of it in others. Boyle. Accu'stomarily, ak-kus'tum-ma-re-le. adv. In a customary manner; accord- ing to common or customary practice. Go on, rhetorick; and expose the peculiar emi- nency, which you accustomarily marshal before logick to public view. Cleaveland. Accu'stomary, ak-kus'tum-ma-re.613 adj. [from accusto?n.] Usual, practis- ed; according to custom. Accu'stomed, ak-kus'tum-ed.362 adj. [from accustom.] According to cus- tom; frequent; usual. Look, how she rubs her hands!—It is an accus- tomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands: I have known her continue in this a quar- ter of an hour. Shakspeare's Macbeth. Ace, ase. n. s. [As not only signified a piece of money, but any integer: from whence is derived the word ace, or unit. Thus, As signified the whole inheri- tance. 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 farther: the whole world shall not bribe me to it. Dryden's Spanish Friar. Ace'phalous, a-se'fal-us. adj. [ajtepaA©-, Gr.] Without a head. Diet. Ace'rb, a-serb'. adj. [acerbu.% Lat.] Acid, with an addition of roughness; as most fruits are, before they are ripe. Quincy. Ace'rbity, a-ser'-be-te.611 n. s. [acerbi- tas, Lat.] 1. A rough sour taste. 2. Applied to men, sharpness of temper; severity. True it is, that the talents for criticism (namely, smartness, quick censure, vivacity of remark; in- deed all, but acerbity) seem rather the gifts of youth, than of old age. Popt. To ACE'RVATE, a-ser'vate.9» v. a. [acervo, Lat.] To heap up. Diet. Acerva'tion, as-er-va'shun.627 n. s. [from acervate.] The act of heaping together. Ace'rvose, a-ser'vos. adj. Full of heaps. Diet. Ace'soent, a-seYs£nt. adj. [acetcem, Lat.] That which has a tendency to sourness or acidity. The same persons (perhaps) had enjoyed their health as well, with a mixture of animal diet, qua- lified with a sufficient quantity of acescents; as, bread, vinegar, and fermented liquors. Arbuthnot on Aliments. Aceto'se, as-e-tose'.427 adj. That which has in it any thing sour. Ackto'sity, as-e-tos'e-te.611 n. s. [from acetose.] The state of being acetose, or of containing sourness. Diet. Ace'tous, a-se'tvis.31* 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 avo- lation of the superfluous moisture through their pores, being distilled in a retort, did not afford any vinous, but rather an acetous, spirit. Boijh. Ache, ake. n. s. [ace, Sax, «£©-, Gr. now generally written ake, and in the plural akes, of one syllable: the primi- tive 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. Slwhp- A coming show'r your shooting corns presage, Old aches throb, your hollow tooth will rage. Sicifi. To Ache, ake. v. n. [See Ache. To be in pain. Upon this account, our senses are dulled and spent by any extraordinary intention; and our very eyes will ache, if long fixed upon any difficultly dis- cerned object. Glanvillt. To ACHl'EVE, It-tsheve'. v. a. [ache- ver, Fr. to complete.] 1. To perform, to finish a design prospe- rously. Our toils, my friends, are crown'd with sure success: The greater part perform'd, achieve the less. Dryl 2. To gain, to obtain. Experience is by industry achiev'd, And perfected by the swift course of time. Shaksf. Tranio, I burn, I pine; I perish, Tranio, If I achieve, not this young modest girl. Shaksp- Thou hast achiev'd our liberty, rur.fin'd Within hell-gates, till cow. Milton-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21133803_0152.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
