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medals for the profpcrity of the emperor and common- 

 wealth. 



AccLAMATioi alfo dcnotc3 a method of ckaion, prac- 

 tifc-J in the ACADF.MV of .r'/'ra^;. 



Acclamation, in IVvtirL; is a figure of fpecch, thus 

 calUa bv the Latins, and by the Greeks k pip hose ma. 



ACC'LIVIS, in Jnalomy, a mufde, olherwife called obli- 

 oyvs n/.ftil.nj. 



ACCLIVITY, the ftecpnefsor (lope, oFa line or plane 

 incliiK-d to the hori/on, tak.cn upwards. The afcent of a 

 hill ii an acclivity : the decent of the fame a declivity. 

 Some writers of fortification ufc the term acclivity for 



TALUS. 



ACCO, in Gfo^rj/./> Sec Acre. 

 ACCOL.-^, compouivLd of i7</, to, and «/.?«, to dvjell, 

 in a gen;r.il feufe, denotes an inhabitant near any certain 

 plici.-, in conti-adillinclion to incola, who dwelt in it ; ac- 

 cording to the verfe, 



" A:c'j!a non propnam, profr'uvn colit incola terram.' 

 ACCOL.^DE, a ceremony anciently ufed in the con- 

 feiTni^ of k'.'.jghthood. 



The word literally denotes an embrace, being foniicd of 

 ady to ; and col, or collum, met. 



Antiquaries are not agreed, wherein the accolade properly 

 confilled. The generality fuppofe it to be the embrace, or 

 kils, which princes anciently gave the nt;w knight, as a 

 token of their affedlion. — Whence the word accolade, q. d. 

 a clafping, or taking round the neck. A very ingenious 

 author will rather have it to be a blow on the chine of the 

 neck, given on the fame occafion. Fauchet feems to recon- 

 cile the two opinions : he fuppofes it to be the kifs ; 

 but withal, imagines the kifs to be intended as a ftroke on 

 the cheek. En Uur ba'iffant fur lajoue — The ceremony being 

 only an imitation of that praftil'ed among the Romans, in 

 the manumllJion of their flaves, where it is known a blow was 

 given. Skinner. Cafeneuve. Orig. Franc. Colomb. Theat. 

 d'Honneur. 



As for the accoUe, or blow, John of Salifbury afTures us, 

 it was in ufe among the ancient Normans : by this it was 

 that William tl-.e Conqueror conferred the honour of knight- 

 hood on his fori Henry. 



At firft, it was given with the naked fiil ; thus Lamber- 

 tus Ardenfis, defciiblng the manner in which Baldric, count 

 de Guines, was created knight by Thomas a Becket, fays, 

 €ldim comili in fignum milttiit glatlium lalcri ct calcano fu: militis 

 pedibus aptavit, <jf aiapam collo ejus inflty.it. But this was 

 afterwards changed into a blow with the flat of the fword, 

 on the Ihoulder of the knight. 



Salmonet, and after him the continuators of Moreri, 

 mention an order in England, called knights of the accolade ; 

 fo called from the manner of their creation. The order here 

 meant is that of knights bachelors, or equites aurati. But 

 the name, if ever, is now no longer known among us. 



ACCOLE'E is fometimes ufed as fynonymous with Ac- 

 colade. 



Accolee is alfo ufed in Heraldry, in divers fenfes, when 

 two things are joined together, as two fhi;lds divided at the 

 flanks, they are faid to be accolee. It n^oreover is alfo ap- 

 plied to lions, dogs, and other animals, which have collars, or 

 crowns about their necks ; as the hon in the arms of Ogilvy; 

 others ufe the term accolee, when two keys, battoons, maces, 

 fwords, &c. are faltier wife, behind the fliield. Nifbet's 

 Effay on Armor. Englifh heralds ordinarily fay, collared, 

 or gorged with an open crov.-n, inftead of accolee. 



ACCOLTL Bctiedid, the Tounger, in Biography, was 

 grandfon of Benedidl Accolti, the elder, who flourlthtd 

 about the year 1376, was born at Arczzo, in 1415, and 



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was dlftinguifiied abo\it 1450, when he is faid to have fuc- 

 ceedcd Poggius as ftcretary to the Republic of Florence. 

 He wrote " Four books concerning the war which the 

 Chridians carried on againll the Inlidels, in order to re- 

 cover Judiea and the holy fepulchre ;" which work was 

 printed at Venice in 1532, 4to. and ferves as the ground-plot 

 to TaiTb's Jerufalem d-Ilve;ed ; and alfo an account " of the 

 excellent perfonages 01 his time," in the form of a dialogue, 

 printed at Panna, in 1 692, 8vo. He died in 1466. 



Accolti, Benedict, was alfo nephew, or, as fome fay, 

 grandfon to Peter Accolti, and was bom at Florence, in 

 1497. He made a great progrefs in the lludy of the law, 

 and became fo much a mafter of the Latin tongue, that he 

 was called the Cicero of the age. He was alfo dillinguifhed. 

 by a very retentive memory. The ecclelialllcal honours which 

 he erjoyeu were very conllderable. Leo X. gave Irim the 

 bilhopric of Cadiz, Adrian VL that of Cremona, and the 

 archbllhopric of Ravenna ; and Clement VH. created him 

 a cardinal. At the nqueft of this pontiff, he wrote a trea- 

 tlfe in vindication of the right of the pope to the kingdora 

 of Naples. He left feveral other works, and particularly 

 fcveral pieces of poetry. He died at Florence in 1549. 

 Gen. Diet. 



Accolti, Francis, the brother of the former, was pro- 

 fefibr of jurifprudence in feveral academies, and flyled the 

 prince ol lawyers. He is faid to have poffelTed a vigorous 

 underftanding, coinpreheiifive knowledge, and powerful elo- 

 quence. He afpired to the purple under the pontificate of 

 Slxtus IV. ; and by a fordid parfimony amaffed large trea- 

 fures. He was born about the year 141 8, and died about 

 the year 1470. He left behind him feveral treatifes of law, 

 and trandations of fome of the works of Chryfoftom. VofT. 

 de Hill. Lat. 1. iii. c. 7. Gen. Dift. 



Accolti, Peter, the ion of Benedift the younger, was 

 born at Arezzo about the year 1455, and died at Rome ia 

 1532. He was profefTor of law, and taught with great 

 applaufe. He was employed by the popes, and ralfed fuc- 

 ceflivcly to feveral biihoprics, and became a cardinal in 

 15 II. He wrote feveral hiftorical trafts. His brother, 

 Benedift, duke of Nepi, was celebn.ted for the extent 

 of his erudition, and the excellency of his poetical ta- 

 lents. Pope Leo X. in 1520, created him prince of 

 the Hate of Nepi. His Virginia, a comedy printed in 

 1553, 8vo. ; and his poems, at Venice, in 1519, and 1553, 

 were much applauded bv his contemporaries. Benedift 

 Accolti is faid to have taken a lead in a confpiracy againft 

 pope Pius IV. and to have been brought to capital punifll- 

 ment in 1562. Gen. Dift. 



ACCOMA, in Geography, a town of New Mexico, in 

 North America, fituated on a high mountain, with a ftrong 

 caftle, which is the capital of the province. It was taken 

 by the Spaniards in 1599. W. long. 104° 15'. N. lat. 



35°- ^ 



ACCOMACH County, m Virginia, is fituated in a penin- 

 fula, bounded on the north by Maryland, eafl by the ocean, 

 and weft by the Chcfnpeak bay, and contains 13,959 in- 

 habitants, of whom 4262 are flaves. 



ACCOMMODATION, in Philojophy, the application of 

 one thing by analogy to another. To know a thing by ac- 

 comodation, is to know it by the idea of a fimilar thing re- 

 ferred to it. 



Accommodation is alfo ufed in Theology ; thus, a pro- 

 phecy of fcripture is faid to be fulfilled properly, when 3 

 thing foretold comes to pafs ; and improperly, or by way 

 of accommodation, when an event happens to any place or 

 people, like to that which occurred fome time before to an- 

 other. This method of explaining fcripture by accomoda- 



tioa. 



