1. To go with or attend as a companion or associate on a journey, walk, etc.; as a man accompanies his friend to church, or on a tour. NWAD ACCOMPANY.2
2. To be with as connected; to attend; as pain accompanies disease. NWAD ACCOMPANY.3
1. To attend; to be an associate; as to accompany with others. Obs. NWAD ACCOMPANY.5
2. To cohabit. NWAD ACCOMPANY.6
3. In music, to perform the accompanying part in a composition. NWAD ACCOMPANY.7
1. To complete; to finish entirely. NWAD ACCOMPLISH.2
That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolation of Jerusalem. Daniel 9:2. NWAD ACCOMPLISH.3
2. To execute; as to accomplish a vow, wrath or fury. Ezekiel 13:15; Ezekiel 20:8, 21. NWAD ACCOMPLISH.4
3. To gain; to obtain or effect by successful exertions; as to accomplish a purpose. Proverbs 13:19. NWAD ACCOMPLISH.5
4. To fulfil or bring to pass; as, to accomplish a prophecy. NWAD ACCOMPLISH.6
This that is written must yet be accomplished in me. Luke 22:37. NWAD ACCOMPLISH.7
5. To furnish with qualities which serve to render the mind or body complete, as with valuable endowments and elegant manners. NWAD ACCOMPLISH.8
1. Finished; completed; fulfilled; executed; effected. NWAD ACCOMPLISHED.2
2. a. Well endowed with good qualities and manners; complete in acquirements; having a finished education. NWAD ACCOMPLISHED.3
3. Fashionable. NWAD ACCOMPLISHED.4
1. Completion; fulfillment; entire performance; as the accomplishment of a prophecy. NWAD ACCOMPLISHMENT.2
2. The act of carrying into effect, or obtaining an object designed; attainment; as the accomplishment of our desires or ends. NWAD ACCOMPLISHMENT.3
3. Acquirement; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education. NWAD ACCOMPLISHMENT.4
1. Agreement; harmony of minds; consent or concurrence of opinions or wills. NWAD ACCORD.2
They all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts 1:14. NWAD ACCORD.3
2. Concert; harmony of sounds; the union of different sounds, which is agreeable to the ear; agreement in pitch and tone; as the accord of notes; but in this sense, it is more usual to employ concord or chord. NWAD ACCORD.4
3. Agreement; just correspondence of things; as the accord of light and shade in painting. NWAD ACCORD.5
4. Will; voluntary or spontaneous motion; used of the will of persons, or the natural motion of other bodies, and preceded by own. NWAD ACCORD.6
Being more forward of his own accord. 2 Corinthians 8:17. NWAD ACCORD.7
That which groweth of its own accord thou shall not reap. Leviticus 25:5. NWAD ACCORD.8
5. Adjustment of a difference; reconciliation. NWAD ACCORD.9
The mediator of an accord. NWAD ACCORD.10
6. In law, an agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit. NWAD ACCORD.11
7. Permission, leave. NWAD ACCORD.12
1. To make to agree, or correspond; to adjust one thing to another. NWAD ACCORD.14
Her hands accorded the lute’s music to the voice. NWAD ACCORD.15
2. To being to an agreement; to settle, adjust or compose; as to accord suits or controversies. NWAD ACCORD.16
1. To agree; to be in correspondence. NWAD ACCORD.18
My heart accordeth with my tongue. NWAD ACCORD.19
2. To agree in pitch and tone. NWAD ACCORD.20
1. Agreeing; harmonizing. NWAD ACCORDING.2
Th’ according music of a well mixt state. NWAD ACCORDING.3
2. Suitable; agreeable; in accordance with. NWAD ACCORDING.4
In these senses, the word agrees with or refers to a sentence. NWAD ACCORDING.5
Our zeal should be according to knowledge. NWAD ACCORDING.6
Noble is the fame that is built on candor and ingenuity, according to those beautiful lines of Sir John Denham. NWAD ACCORDING.7
Here the whole preceding parts of the sentence are to accord, i.e. agree with, correspond with, or be suitable to, what follows. According, here, has its true participial sense, agreeing, and is always followed by to. It is never a preposition. NWAD ACCORDING.8
Those who live in faith and good works, will be rewarded accordingly. NWAD ACCORDINGLY.2
1. To approach; to draw near; to come side by side, or face to face. [Not in use.] NWAD ACCOST.2
2. To speak first to; to address. NWAD ACCOST.3
1. A sum stated on paper; a registry of a debt or credit; of debts and credits, or charges; an entry in a book or on paper of things bought or sold, of payments, services etc., including the names of the parties to the transaction, date, and price or value of the thing. NWAD ACCOUNT.2
Account signifies a single entry or charge, or a statement of a number of particular debts and credits, in a book or on a separate paper; and in the plural, is used for the books containing such entries. NWAD ACCOUNT.3
2. A computation of debts and credits, or a general statement of particular sums; as, the account stands thus; let him exhibit his account. NWAD ACCOUNT.4
3. A computation or mode of reckoning; applied to other things, than money or trade; as the Julian account of time. NWAD ACCOUNT.5
4. Narrative; relation; statement of facts; recital of particular transactions and events, verbal or written; as an account of the revolution in France. Hence, NWAD ACCOUNT.6
5. An assignment of reasons; explanation by a recital of particular transactions, given by a person in an employment, or to a superior, often implying responsibility. NWAD ACCOUNT.7
Give an account of thy stewardship. Luke 16:2. NWAD ACCOUNT.8
Without responsibility or obligation. NWAD ACCOUNT.9
He giveth not account of his matters. Job 33:13. NWAD ACCOUNT.10
6. Reason or consideration, as a motive; as on all accounts, on every account. NWAD ACCOUNT.11
7. Value; importance; estimation; that is, such a state of persons or things, as renders them worthy of more or less estimation; as men of account of him. Psalm 144:3. NWAD ACCOUNT.12
8. Profit; advantage; that is, a result or production worthy of estimation. To find our account in a pursuit; to turn to account. NWAD ACCOUNT.13
9. Regard; behalf; sake; a sense deduced from charges on book; as on account of public affairs. NWAD ACCOUNT.14
Put that to mine account. Philemon 18. NWAD ACCOUNT.15
To make account, that is, to have a pervious opinion or expectation, is a sense now obsolete. NWAD ACCOUNT.16
A writ of account, in law, is a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant should render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; call also an action of account. NWAD ACCOUNT.17
1. To deem, judge, consider, think, or hold in opinion. NWAD ACCOUNT.19
I and my son Solomon shall be accounted offenders. 1 Kings 1:21. NWAD ACCOUNT.20
2. To account of, to hold in esteem; to value. NWAD ACCOUNT.21
Let a man so account of us as of ministers of Christ. 1 Corinthians 4:1. NWAD ACCOUNT.22
3. To reckon, or compute; as, the motion of the sun whereby years are accounted - also to assign as a debt; as, a project accounted to his service; but these uses are antiquated. NWAD ACCOUNT.23
1. To render an account or relation of particulars. An officer must account with or to the Treasurer for money received. NWAD ACCOUNT.25
2. To give reasons; to assign the causes; to explain; with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty. NWAD ACCOUNT.26
3. To render reasons; to answer for in a responsible character. NWAD ACCOUNT.27
We must account for all the talents entrusted to us. NWAD ACCOUNT.28
1. The state of being liable to answer for one’s conduct; liability to give account, and to receive reward or punishment for actions. NWAD ACCOUNTABILITY.2
The awful idea of accountability. NWAD ACCOUNTABILITY.3
2. Liability to the payment of money or of damages; responsibility for a trust. NWAD ACCOUNTABILITY.4
1. Liable to be called to account; answerable to a superior. NWAD ACCOUNTABLE.2
Every man is accountable to God for his conduct. NWAD ACCOUNTABLE.3
2. Subject to pay, or make good, in case of loss. A sheriff is accountable, as bailiff and receiver of goods. NWAD ACCOUNTABLE.4
Accountable for, that may be explained. [Not elegant.] NWAD ACCOUNTABLE.5
Accounted for, explained. NWAD ACCOUNTED.2
Accounting for, rendering an account; assigning the reasons; unfolding the causes. NWAD ACCOUNTING.2
In a general sense, to dress; to equip, but appropriately, to array in a military dress; to put on, or to furnish with a military dress and arms; to equip the body for military service. NWAD ACCOUTER.2
1. Dress; equipage; furniture for the body; appropriately, military dress and arms; equipage for military service. NWAD ACCOUTERMENTS.2
2. In common usage, an old or unusual dress. NWAD ACCOUTERMENTS.3
To give credit, authority, or reputation; to accredit an envoy, is to receive him in his public character, and give him credit and rank accordingly. NWAD ACCREDIT.2
1. A growing to; an increase by natural growth; applied to the increase of organic bodies by the accession of parts. NWAD ACCRETION.2
Plants have an accretion, but no alimentation. NWAD ACCRETION.3
2. In the civil law, the adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; as, when a legacy is left to two persons, and one of them dies before the testator, the legacy devolves to the survivor by right of accretion. NWAD ACCRETION.4
1. To hook, or draw to, as with a hook; but in this sense not used. NWAD ACCROACH.2
2. To encroach; to draw away from another. Hence in old laws to assume the exercise of royal prerogatives. NWAD ACCROACH.3
The noun accroachment, an encroachment, or attempt to exercise royal power, is rarely or never used. [See Encroach.] NWAD ACCROACH.4
Literally, to grow to; hence to arise, proceed or come; to be added, as increase, profit or damage; as, a profit accrues to government from the coinage of copper; a loss accrues from the coinage of gold and silver. NWAD ACCRUE.2
A lying or reclining on a couch, as the ancients at their meals. The manner was to recline on low beds or couches with the head resting on a pillow or on the elbow. Two or three men lay on one bed, the feet of one extended behind the back of another. This practice was not permitted among soldiers, children and servants; nor was it known, until luxury had corrupted manners. NWAD ACCUBATION.2
1. To heap up; to pile; to amass; as, to accumulate earth or stones. NWAD ACCUMULATE.2
2. To collect or bring together; as to accumulate causes of misery; to accumulate wealth. NWAD ACCUMULATE.3
1. The act of accumulating; the state of being accumulated; an amassing; a collecting together; as an accumulation of earth or of evils. NWAD ACCUMULATION.2
2. In law, the concurrence of several titles to the same thing, or of several circumstances to the same proof. NWAD ACCUMULATION.3
3. In Universities, an accumulation of degrees, is the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual, or than is allowed by the rules. NWAD ACCUMULATION.4
1. Exactness; exact conformity to truth; or to a rule or model; freedom from mistake; nicety; correctness; precision which results from care. The accuracy of ideas or opinions is conformity to truth. The value of testimony depends on its accuracy; copies of legal instruments should be taken with accuracy. NWAD ACCURACY.2
2. Closeness; tightness; as a tube sealed with accuracy. NWAD ACCURACY.3
1. In exact conformity to truth, or to a standard or rule, or to a model; free from failure, error, or defect; as an accurate account; accurate measure; an accurate expression. NWAD ACCURATE.2
2. Determinate; precisely fixed; as, one body may not have a very accurate influence on another. NWAD ACCURATE.3
3. Close; perfectly tight; as an accurate sealing or luting. NWAD ACCURATE.4
1. Exactly; in an accurate manner; with precision; without error or defect; as a writing accurately copied. NWAD ACCURATELY.2
2. Closely; so as to be perfectly tight; as a vial accurately stopped. NWAD ACCURATELY.3
1. Doomed to destruction or misery: NWAD ACCURSED.2
The city shall be accursed. Joshua 6:17. NWAD ACCURSED.3
2. Separated from the faithful; cast out of the church; excommunicated. NWAD ACCURSED.4
I could wish myself accursed from Christ. NWAD ACCURSED.5
3. Worthy of the curse; detestable; execrable. NWAD ACCURSED.6
Keep from the accursed thing. Joshua 6:18. NWAD ACCURSED.7
Hence, NWAD ACCURSED.8
4. Wicked; malignant in the extreme. NWAD ACCURSED.9
1. The act of charging with a crime or offense; the act of accusing of any wrong or injustice. NWAD ACCUSATION.2
2. The charge of an offense or crime; or the declaration containing the charge. NWAD ACCUSATION.3
They set over his head his accusation. Matthew 27:37. NWAD ACCUSATION.4
1. In an accusative manner. NWAD ACCUSATIVELY.2
2. In relation to the accusative case in Grammar. NWAD ACCUSATIVELY.3
1. To charge with, or declare to have committed a crime, either by plaint, or complaint, information, indictment, or impeachment; to charge with an offense against the laws, judicially or by a public process; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor. NWAD ACCUSE.2
2. To charge with a fault; to blame. NWAD ACCUSE.3
Their thoughts, in the meanwhile, accusing or excusing one another. Romans 2:15. NWAD ACCUSE.4
It is followed by of before the subject of accusation; the use of for after this verb is illegitimate. NWAD ACCUSE.5
To make familiar by use; to form a habit by practice; to habituate or inure; as to accustom one’s self to a spare diet. NWAD ACCUSTOM.2
1. To be wont, or habituated to do anything. [Little used.] NWAD ACCUSTOM.4
2. To cohabit. [Not used.] NWAD ACCUSTOM.5
1. Being familiar by use; habituated; inured. NWAD ACCUSTOMED.2
2. a. Usual; often practiced; as in their accustomed manner. NWAD ACCUSTOMED.3
1. A unit; a single point on a card or die; or the card or die so marked. NWAD ACE.2
2. A very small quantity; a particle; an atom; a trifle; as a creditor will not abate an ace of his demand. NWAD ACE.3
A field said to have laid south of Jerusalem, the same as the potters field, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his master, and therefore called the field of blood. It was appropriated to the interment of strangers. NWAD ACELDAMA.2
Without a head, headless. In history, the term Acephali, or Acephalites was given to several sects who refused to follow some noted leader, and to such bishops as were exempt from the jurisdiction and discipline of their patriarch. It was also given to certain levelers who acknowledged no head in the reign of Henry 1st. It was also applied to the Blemmyes, a pretended nation of Africa, and to other tribes in the East, whom ancient naturalists represented as having no head; their eyes and mouth being placed in other parts. Modern discoveries have dissipated these fictions. In English Laws, men who held lands of no particular lord, and clergymen who were under no bishop. NWAD ACEPHALOUS.2
Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste; sour, with astringency or roughness; a quality of unripe fruits. NWAD ACERB.2
1. A sourness, with roughness, or astringency. NWAD ACERBITY.2
2. Figuratively, harshness or severity of temper in man. NWAD ACERBITY.3
Pertaining to the maple; obtained from the maple, as aceric acid. NWAD ACERIC.2
1. In botany, chaffy; resembling chaff. NWAD ACEROUS.2
2. An acerous or acerose leaf is one which is linear and permanent, in form of a needle, as in pine. NWAD ACEROUS.3
A turning sour by spontaneous decomposition; a state of becoming sour, tart, or acid, and hence a being moderately sour. NWAD ACESCENCY.2