Lardner.
Ac¶cuÏrate (#), a. [L. accuratus, p. p. and a., fr. accurare to take care of; ad + curare to take care, cura care. See Cure.] 1. In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.
2. Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. [Obs.]
Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below.
Bacon.
Syn. Ð Correct; exact; just; nice; particular. Ð Accurate, Correct, Exact, Precise. We speak of a thing as correct with reference to some rule or standard of comparison; as, a correct account, a correct likeness, a man of correct deportment. We speak of a thing as accurate with reference to the care bestowed upon its execution, and the increased correctness to be expected therefrom; as, an accurate statement, an accurate detail of particulars. We speak of a thing as exact with reference to that perfected state of a thing in which there is no defect and no redundance; as, an exact coincidence, the exact truth, an exact likeness. We speak of a thing as precise when we think of it as strictly conformed to some rule or model, as if cut down thereto; as a precise conformity instructions; precisely right; he was very precise in giving his directions.
Ac¶cuÏrateÏly, adv. In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.
Ac¶cuÏrateÏness, n. The state or quality of being accurate ; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
AcÏcurse¶ (#), v. t. [OE. acursien, acorsien; pref. a + cursien to curse. See Curse.] To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.
And the city shall be accursed.
Josh. vi. 17.
Thro' you, my life will be accurst.
Tennyson.
AcÏcursed¶ (#), AcÏcurst¶ (#), } p. p. & a. Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; Ð as, an accursed deed. Shak. Ð AcÏcurs¶edÏly, adv. Ð AcÏcurs¶edÏness, n.
AcÏcus¶aÏble (#), a. [L. accusabilis: cf. F. accusable.] Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; Ð with of.
AcÏcus¶al (#), n. Accusation. [R.]
Byron.
AcÏcus¶ant (#), n. [L. accusans, p. pr. of accusare: cf. F. accusant.] An accuser.
Bp. Hall.
Ac·cuÏsa¶tion (#), n. [OF. acusation, F. accusation, L. accusatio, fr. accusare. See Accuse.]
1. The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.
We come not by the way of accusation
To taint that honor every good tongue blesses.
Shak.
2. That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge.
[They] set up over his head his accusation.
Matt. xxvii. 37.
Syn. Ð Impeachment; crimination; censure; charge.
AcÏcu·saÏti¶val (#), a. Pertaining to the accusative case. AcÏcu¶saÏtive (#), a. [F. accusatif, L. accusativus (in sense 2), fr. accusare. See Accuse.] 1. Producing accusations; accusatory. ½This hath been a very accusative age.¸ Sir E. Dering. 2. (Gram.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English. AcÏcu¶saÏtive, n. (Gram.) The accusative case.
AxÏcu¶saÏtiveÏly, adv. 1. In an accusative manner. 2. In relation to the accusative case in grammar.
AcÏcu·saÏto¶riÏal (#), a. Accusatory.
AcÏcu·saÏto¶riÏalÏly, adv. By way accusation.
AcÏcu¶saÏtoÏry (#), a. [L. accusatorius, fr. accusare.] Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel.
Grote.
AcÏcuse¶ (#), n. Accusation. [Obs.]
Shak.
AcÏcuse¶, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accused (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Accusing.] [OF. acuser, F. accuser, L. accusare, to call to account, accuse; ad + causa cause, lawsuit. Cf. Cause.] 1. To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense; (Law) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; Ð with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.
Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
Acts xxiv. 13.
We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms.
Macaulay.
2. To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
Rom. ii. 15.
3. To betray; to show. [L.]
Sir P. Sidney.
Syn. Ð To charge; blame; censure; reproach; criminate; indict; impeach; arraign. Ð To Accuse, Charge, Impeach, Arraign. These words agree in bringing home to a person the imputation of wrongdoing. To accuse is a somewhat formal act, and is applied usually (though not exclusively) to crimes; as, to accuse of treason. Charge is the most generic. It may refer to a crime, a dereliction of duty, a fault, etc.; more commonly it refers to moral delinquencies; as, to charge with dishonesty or falsehood. To arraign is to bring (a person) before a tribunal for trial; as, to arraign one before a court or at the bar public opinion. To impeach is officially to charge with misbehavior in office; as, to impeach a minister of high crimes. Both impeach and arraign convey the idea of peculiar dignity or impressiveness.
AcÏcused¶ (#), a. Charged with offense; as, an accused person.
Commonly used substantively; as, the accused, one charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.
AcÏcuse¶ment (#), n. [OF. acusement. See Accuse.] Accusation. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
AcÏcus¶er (#), n. [OE. acuser, accusour; cf. OF. acuseor, fr. L. accusator, fr. accusare.] One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
AcÏcus¶ingÏly, adv. In an accusing manner.
AcÏcus¶tom (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accustomed (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Accustoming.] [OF. acostumer, acustumer, F. accoutumer; ? (L. ad) + OF. costume, F. coutume, custom. See Custom.] To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; Ð with to.
I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater.
Adventurer.
Syn. Ð To habituate; inure; exercise; train.
AcÏcus¶tom, v. i. 1. To be wont. [Obs.]
Carew.
2. To cohabit. [Obs.]
We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries.
Milton.
AcÏcus¶tom, n. Custom. [Obs.]
Milton.
AcÏcus¶tomÏaÏble (#), a. Habitual; customary; wonted. ½Accustomable goodness.¸
Latimer.
AcÏcus¶tomÏaÏbly, adv. According to custom; ordinarily; customarily.
Latimer.
AcÏcus¶tomÏance (#), n. [OF. accoustumance, F. accoutumance.] Custom; habitual use. [Obs.]
Boyle.