Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 11

Accept (v. t.) To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?

Accept (v. t.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.

Accept (v. t.) In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]

Accept (a.) Accepted.

Acceptability (n.) The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.

Acceptable (a.) Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.

Acceptableness (n.) The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.

Acceptably (adv.) In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction.

Acceptance (n.) The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.

Acceptance (n.) State of being accepted; acceptableness.

Acceptance (n.) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.

Acceptance (n.) The bill itself when accepted.

Acceptance (n.) An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.

Acceptance (n.) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.

Acceptance (n.) Meaning; acceptation.

Acceptancy (n.) Acceptance.

Acceptant (a.) Accepting; receiving.

Acceptant (n.) An accepter.

Acceptation (n.) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.

Acceptation (n.) The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation.

Acceptedly (adv.) In a accepted manner; admittedly.

Accepter (n.) A person who accepts; a taker.

Accepter (n.) A respecter; a viewer with partiality.

Accepter (n.) An acceptor.

Acceptilation (n.) Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.

Acception (n.) Acceptation; the received meaning.

Acceptive (a.) Fit for acceptance.

Acceptive (a.) Ready to accept.

Acceptor (n.) One who accepts

Acceptor (n.) one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.

Access (n.) A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.

Access (n.) The means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land.

Access (n.) Admission to sexual intercourse.

Access (n.) Increase by something added; addition; as, an access of territory. [In this sense accession is more generally used.]

Access (n.) An onset, attack, or fit of disease.

Access (n.) A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury.

Accessarily (adv.) In the manner of an accessary.

Accessariness (n.) The state of being accessary.

Accessary (a.) Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory.

Accessaries (pl. ) of Accessary

Accessary (n.) One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense.

Accessibility (n.) The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility.

Accessible (a.) Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person.

Accessible (a.) Open to the influence of; -- with to.

Accessible (a.) Obtainable; to be got at.

Accessibly (adv.) In an accessible manner.

Accession (n.) A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.

Accession (n.) Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory.

Accession (n.) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.

Accession (n.) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.

Accession (n.) The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; -- applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.

Accession (n.) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.

Accessional (a.) Pertaining to accession; additional.

Accessive (a.) Additional.

Accessorial (a.) Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.

Accessorily (adv.) In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary.

Accessoriness (n.) The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.

Accessory (a.) Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.

Accessories (pl. ) of Accessory

Accessory (n.) That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.

Accessory (n.) Same as Accessary, n.

Accessory (n.) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.

Acciaccatura (n.) A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.

Accidence (n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.

Accidence (n.) The rudiments of any subject.

Accident (n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.

Accident (n.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.

Accident (n.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

Accident (n.) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.

Accident (n.) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.

Accident (n.) Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.

Accident (n.) Unusual appearance or effect.

Accidental (a.) Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.

Accidental (a.) Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play.

Accidental (n.) A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.

Accidental (n.) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

Accidental (n.) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.

Accidentalism (n.) Accidental character or effect.

Accidentality (n.) The quality of being accidental; accidentalness.

Accidentally (adv.) In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.

Accidentalness (n.) The quality of being accidental; casualness.

Accidie (n.) Sloth; torpor.

Accipenser (n.) See Acipenser.

Accipient (n.) A receiver.

Accipiters (pl. ) of Accipiter

Accipitres (pl. ) of Accipiter

Accipiter (n.) A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores.

Accipiter (n.) A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.

Accipitral (n.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike.

Accipitres (n. pl.) The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls.

Accipitrine (a.) Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.

Accismus (n.) Affected refusal; coyness.

Accite (v. t.) To cite; to summon.

Acclaim (v. t.) To applaud.

Acclaim (v. t.) To declare by acclamations.

Acclaim (v. t.) To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.

Acclaim (v. i.) To shout applause.

Acclaim (n.) Acclamation.

Acclaimer (n.) One who acclaims.

Acclamation (n.) A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause.

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