Whether high towering or accosting low.
Spenser.
AcÏcoil¶ (#), v. t. [OE. acoillir to receive, F. accueillir; L. ad + colligere to collect. See Coil.] 1. To gather together; to collect. [Obs.]
Spenser.
2. (Naut.) To coil together.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Ac·coÏlade¶ (#; 277), n. [F. accolade, It. accolata, fr. accollare to embrace; L. ad + collum neck.] 1. A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.
2. (Mus.) A brace used to join two or more staves.
AcÏcomÏbiÏna¶tion (#), n. [L. ad + E. combination.] A combining together. [R.]
AcÏcom¶moÏdaÏble (#), a. [Cf. F. accommodable.] That may be accommodated, fitted, or made to agree. [R.]
I. Watts.
AcÏcom¶moÏdableÏness, n. The quality or condition of being accommodable. [R.]
Todd.
AcÏcom¶moÏdate (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accommodated (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Accommodating (#).] [L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare; ad + commodare to make fit, help; conÏ + modus measure, proportion. See Mode.] 1. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. ½They accomodate their counsels to his inclination.¸
Addison.
2. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
3. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
4. To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
Syn. Ð To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.
AcÏcom¶moÏdate, v. i. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [R.]
Boyle.
AcÏcom¶moÏdate (#), a. [L. accommodatus, p.p. of accommodare.] Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. [Archaic]
Tillotson.
AcÏcom¶moÏdateÏly, adv. Suitably; fitly. [R.]
AcÏcom¶moÏdateÏness, n. Fitness. [R.]
AcÏcom¶moÏda·ting (#), a. Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.
AcÏcom·moÏda¶tion (#), n. [L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.]
1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; Ð followed by to. ½The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.¸
Sir M. Hale.
2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; Ð often in the plural; as, the accomodations Ð that is, lodgings and food Ð at an inn.
A volume of Shakespeare in each pocket, a small bundle with a change of linen slung across his shoulders, an oaken cudgel in his hand, complete our pedestrian's accommodations.
Sir W. Scott.
4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. ½To come to terms of accommodation.¸
Macaulay.
5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations.
Paley.
6. (Com.) (a) A loan of money. (b) An accommodation bill or note.
Accommodation bill, or note (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. Ð Accommodation coach, or train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. Ð Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.
AcÏcom¶moÏda·tor (#), n. He who, or that which, accommodates.
Warburton.
AcÏcom¶paÏnaÏble (#), a. Sociable. [Obs.]
Sir P. Sidney.
AcÏcom¶paÏniÏer (#), n. He who, or that which, accompanies.
Lamb.
AcÏcom¶paÏniÏment (#), n. [F. accompagnement.] That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically: (Mus.) A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass.
P. Cyc.
AcÏcom¶paÏnist (#), n. The performer in music who takes the accompanying part.
Busby.
AcÏcom¶paÏny (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accompanied (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Accompanying (#)] [OF. aacompaignier, F. accompagner, to associate with, fr. OF. compaign, compain, companion. See Company.] 1. To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; Ð followed by with or by;as, he accompanied his speech with a bow.
The Persian dames, …
In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march.
Glover.
The are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Sir P. Sidney.
He was accompanied by two carts filled wounded rebels.
Macaulay.
2. To cohabit with. [Obs.]
Sir T. Herbert.
Syn. Ð To attend; escort; go with. Ð To Accompany, Attend, Escort. We accompany those with whom we go as companions. The word imports an equality of station. We attend those whom we wait upon or follow. The word conveys an idea of subornation. We escort those whom we attend with a view to guard and protect. A gentleman accompanies a friend to some public place; he attends or escorts a lady.
AcÏcom¶paÏny, v. i. 1. To associate in a company; to keep company. [Obs.]
Bacon.
Men say that they will drive away one another, … and not accompany together.
Holland.
2. To cohabit (with). [Obs.]
Milton.
3. (Mus.) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
AcÏcom¶pleÏtive (#), a. [L. ad + complere, completum, to fill up.] Tending to accomplish. [R.]
AcÏcom¶plice (#), n. [AcÏ (perh. for the article a or for L. ad) + E. complice. See Complice.]
1. A cooperator. [R.]
Success unto our valiant general,
And happiness to his accomplices!
Shak.
2. (Law) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory. ½And thou, the cursed accomplice of his treason.¸ Johnson. It is followed by with or of before a person and by in (or sometimes of) before the crime; as, A was an accomplice with B in the murder of C. Dryden