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Attendance an acclamation band of 5000 

 soldiers to ch.int his praise, which the 

 spectators were obliged to repeat in 

 chorus. Acclamations, at first practised 

 in the theatre, passed to the senate, and 

 at length into the acts of councils and 

 the ordinary assemblies of the church. 

 Sermons wore applauded with hands anA 

 feet, by leaping up and down, and shout- 

 ing " orthodox," by the waving of hand- 

 kerchiefs, &c. The acclamation of the 

 Jews was " Hosanna;" of the Greeks, 

 Ayat/ij t s%n (gf-od luck) ; of the Romans, 

 l>ii te nolis sen-cut (may the Gods preserve 

 you !}. In the famous French Conven- 

 tion of 1792, decrees were voted by accla- 

 mation. 



ACCU'MATIZE (Fr. acclimater\to accus- 

 tom to the temperature of a foreign climate. 



ACCLI'VIS, Lat. from clivus, an ascent. 

 In anatomy a muscle of the belly : named 

 from the oblique ascent of its fibres. 



ACCOLA'DE, from Lat. ad and collum, 

 the neck. An ancient mode of conferring 

 knighthood, by the king's laying his arm 

 about the young knight's neck, and em- 

 bracing him. 



ACCOLLE'E, in heraldry, 1. The same 

 with aecolade. 2. Two things joined to- 

 gether. 3. Animals with collars or crowns 

 about their necks. 4. Batons or swords 

 placed sal tier wise behind the shield. 



ACCOMMODATION, from aceommodate. In 

 a commercial sense, a loan of money. An 

 accommodation bill or note, in the lan- 

 guage of bankers, means one drawn for 

 the purpose of borrowing its amount, in 

 contradistinction to a note or bill received 

 in payment of goods. The term is also 

 used of a note lent merely to accommodate 

 the borrower, and of one given instead of 

 a loan of money. 



ACCOMPANIMENT, from Lat. ad and com- 

 pagvio, to join (Fr. accompagnement). 

 Something that attends as a circumstance, 

 or is addt-d as ornament to the principal 

 thing, or for symmetry ; e.g. in music, the 

 instruments which accompany the voice 

 to make the music more full: in painting, 

 the dogs, guns. &c. of a hunting piece, or 

 the warlike' instrumentsaeconi/xwt/tng'the 

 portrait of a military character. 



ACCOMPLICE, Fr. accomplice, from Lat. 

 ad-complicatusfrom con and p/t'eo,tofold). 

 An associate in crime : generally applied 

 to such as are admitted to give evidence 

 against their fellow-criminals. By the 

 law of Scotland accomplices cannot be 

 prosecuted till the principal offenders are 

 convicted. 



ACCORD, Fr. accord, agreement. In 

 painting, the harmony which prevails 

 among the lights and shadows of a pic- 

 ture. In law, an agreement between 

 parties in controversy, by which satis- 

 faction for an injury is stipulated, and 

 wiacn, when executed, tar a suit. 



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Xlackstone. In music, the same with con- 

 cord (q. v.). This work is derived by some 

 from Lat. cor, cordis, the heart. In some 

 of its applications it comes naturally from 

 chorda. 



ACCOR'IMON , from accord, a small musical 

 instrument, the sounds of which are pro- 

 duced by the action of bellows upon 

 trings made of German silver. Crabb. 



ACCOUCHEMENT, the French word for 

 the act of parturition. 



ACCOUCHEUR, the French word for a 

 man-mid .rife. 



ACCOUNT, Pr. ct/ite, or AJCO.IPI. Fr. 

 comptc. from Lilt, com/ntfo, to reckon^ In 

 a general sense, any arithmetical compu- 

 tation. Account signifies more strictly, in 

 mercantile affairs, a single entry or state- 

 ment of partimlitr debts and credits: in 

 the plural it is ued to denote the books 

 containing such entries. A icritof account, 

 in law, is a writ which the plaintiff 

 brings demanding that the defendant 

 shall render his.>usf account, orshowsood 

 cause to the contrary. This is also called 

 an action of account. Commissioners of 

 public accounts, are individuals who exa- 

 mine and report the receipts, issues, and 

 expenditure of the public moneys. Cham- 

 ber of accounts, in the old French polity, 

 was a sovereign court answering to our 

 exchequer. 



ACCOUNT' ANT, one skilled in accounts; 

 more generally, a person who keeps ac- 

 counts ; a book-keeper in a public office ; 

 e. g. an officer in the court of chancery, 

 who receives money, and pays it to the 

 bank, is called accountant-general. 



ACCOUPLEMENT, in carpentry, a tie o* 

 brace, and sometimes the whole work 

 when framed. 



ACCRETION, Lat. accretio, increase (ad 



and cresco, to grow). 1. Growth by the 



accession of new parts. 2. The growing 



together of parts naturally separate ; e. g. 

 the fingers or toes. In law, property ac- 

 quired in something not occupied, by its 

 adhering to or following another thing 

 already occupied; e. g. a legacy left to 

 two persons, and one of them dies before 

 the testator, the legacy devolves to the 

 survivor by right of accretion. Alluvion 

 is another instance of accretion. 



ACCEOCHE' (Anglice, accroach), in he- 

 raldry, denotes that one thing is hooked 

 in another. Fr. croc. 



ACCRUED, in heraldry, a full blown tree. 



ACCUMULATION, from cumulus, aheap. 

 A collecting together. In law, the con- 

 currence of several titles to the same 

 thing, or of several proofs to make out 

 one fact. In tmiversities, the accumulation 

 of degrees means the taking of several of 

 them together, or at shorter intervals 

 than the rules allow. 



ACCUSATION, Lat. ad-eusatio\ from causa 

 blame, &c.) In law, a declaration charging 



