Dryden.
Syn. Ð Abettor; accessory; assistant; associate; confederate; coadjutor; ally; promoter. See Abettor.
AcÏcom¶pliceÏship (#), n. The state of being an accomplice. [R.]
Sir H. Taylor.
Ac·comÏplic¶iÏty (#), n. The act or state of being an accomplice. [R.]
AcÏcom¶plish (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accomplished (#), p. pr. & vb. n. Accomplishing.] [OE. acomplissen, OF. accomplir, F. accomplir; L. ad + complere to fill up, complete. See Complete, Finish.] 1. To complete, as time or distance.
That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
Dan. ix. 2.
He had accomplished half a league or more.
Prescott.
2. To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.
This that is written must yet be accomplished in me.
Luke xxii. 37.
3. To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
The armorers accomplishing the knights.
Shak.
It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it.
Wilkins.
These qualities … go to accomplish a perfect woman.
Cowden Clarke.
4. To gain; to obtain. [Obs.]
Shak.
Syn. Ð To do; perform; fulfill; realize; effect; effectuate; complete; consummate; execute; achieve; perfect; equip; furnish. Ð To Accomplish, Effect, Execute, Achieve, Perform. These words agree in the general idea of carrying out to some end proposed. To accomplish (to fill up to the measure of the intention) generally implies perseverance and skill; as, to accomplish a plan proposed by one's self, an object, a design, an undertaking. ½Thou shalt accomplish my desire.¸
1 Kings v. 9.
He … expressed his desire to see a union accomplished between England and Scotland.
Macaulay.
To effect (to work out) is much like accomplish. It usually implies some degree of difficulty contended with; as, he effected or accomplished what he intended, his purpose, but little. ½What he decreed, he effected.¸
Milton.
To work in close design by fraud or guile
What force effected not.
Milton.
To execute (to follow out to the end, to carry out, or into effect) implies a set mode of operation; as, to execute the laws or the orders of another; to execute a work, a purpose, design, plan, project. To perform is much like to do, though less generally applied. It conveys a notion of protracted and methodical effort; as, to perform a mission, a part, a task, a work. ½Thou canst best perform that office.¸
Milton.
The Saints, like stars, around his seat
Perform their courses still.
Keble.
To achieve (to come to the end or arrive at one's purpose) usually implies some enterprise or undertaking of importance, difficulty, and excellence.
AcÏcom¶plishÏaÏble (#), a. Capable of being accomplished; practicable.
Carlyle.
AcÏcom¶plished (#), a. 1. Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact.
2. Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; Ð commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain.
They … show themselves accomplished bees.
Holland.
Daughter of God and man, accomplished Eve.
Milton.
AcÏcom¶plishÏer (#), n. One who accomplishes.
AcÏcom¶plishÏment (#), n. [F. accomplissement, fr. accomplir.] 1. The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.
2. That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training. ½My new accomplishment of dancing.¸ Churchill. ½Accomplishments befitting a station.¸ Thackeray.
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place,
And wisdom falls before exterior grace.
Cowper.
AcÏcompt¶ (#; formerly #), n. See Account.
µ Accompt, accomptant, etc., are archaic forms.
AcÏcomp¶aÏble (#), a. See Accountable.
AcÏcompt¶ant (#), n. See Accountant.
AcÏcord¶ (#), n. [OE. acord, accord, OF. acort, acorde, F. accord, fr. OF. acorder, F. accorder. See Accord, v. t.] 1. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
A mediator of an accord and peace between them.
Bacon.
These all continued with one accord in prayer.
Acts i. 14.
2. Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.
Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
Sir J. Davies.
3. Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
4. Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; Ð preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.
Lev. xxv. 5.
Of his own accord he went unto you.
2 Cor. vii. 17.
5. (Law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.
Blackstone.
With one accord, with unanimity.
They rushed one accord into the theater.
Acts xix. 29.
AcÏcord¶, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accorded; p. pr. & vb. n. According.] [OE. acorden, accorden, OF. acorder, F. accorder, fr. LL. accordare; L. ad + cor, cordis, heart. Cf. Concord, Discord, and see Heart.] 1. To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; Ð followed by to. [R.]
Her hands accorded the lute's music to the voice.
Sidney.
2. To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.
When they were accorded from the fray.
Spenser.
All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critica learning.
South.
3. To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise. ½According his desire.¸
Spenser.
AcÏcord¶, v. i. 1. To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; Ð followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.
My heart accordeth with my tongue.
Shak.
Thy actions to thy words accord.