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Accomplishment, in TL-olo^y, is principally nfcd in 

 fpeaking of events fi)i-ctold by the Jcwilh propliL-ts, in the 

 Old TclUmcnt, and fullllk-d luidcr the New. In the writ- 

 ings of biblical commentators and critics, we i-ead of a lite- 

 ral, niyilical, typical, fintjle and double accomplillmient. 

 Prophecy may be accomplilhed either direftly or by way of 



ACCOMMODATION. SeepROPHECY. 



Accomplishment is more particularly ufed for anv 

 perfonal endowment, mental or corporeal. 



ACCOMPT. Sec Account. 



ACCORD, in La^w, is a verbal agreement between two, 

 at the leaft, to fatisfy an offence which the one hath com- 

 initted againlt the other; whether it be a trefpafs, or the 

 like ; for which the one agrees to make, and the other to 

 accept, a certain fatisfatlion. — This, if execnted, becomes 

 a good bar in law to any fuit to be brought for the fame 

 matter. Accord with fatIsfa£lion is a good plea in per- 

 fonal aftions, where damages only are to be recovered, and 

 in all aftions, which fuppofe a wrong, -v't et armis, where a 

 capias and exigent lay at the common law, in trefpafs and 

 ejcftment, detinue, &c. So in an appeal of Mail.vm. But 

 in real aftions, it is not a good plea. 4 Rep. i. 9. 70. 

 9 Rep. 77. By feveral late ftatutes, particularly 1 1 Geo. II. 

 c. 19. in cafe of irregularity in the method of dillraining, 

 and 24 Geo. II. c. 24. in cafe of millakes committed by juf- 

 tices of the peace, even tender of fufRcient amends to the 

 party injured is a bar of all atlions, whether he thinks pro- 

 per to accept fuch amends or not. 



Accord, in Mufic, is more ufually called Concord. 

 It is alfo ufed by old authors for Chord. 



The word is formed, according to fome, from the latin 

 ad, to, and cor, the heart ; but others, with greater pro- 

 priety, derive it from the French corde, a Jiriug ; on accoimt 

 of the agreeable union between the founds of two firings 

 flruck at the fame time. Whence alfo fome of the confo- 

 nants in mulic are called telrachord, liexachord, &c. which 

 are a fonrth and a fixtli. 



ACCORDARE, //«/.■) 

 ACCORDER, Fr. j 



Accord, in Painting, denotes the harmony that prevails 

 among the lights and (hades of a pifture. 



ACCORDS, Sti^phen Tabourot, Seigneur des, in 

 Biography, an advocate in the parliament of Dijon in France, 

 was born in the year 1549. The lorddiip of Accords is an 

 imaginary fief or title, derived from the device of his ancef- 

 tors, which was a drum, with the motto, a tons accords ; 

 " chiming with all." S. Accords was a man of genius 

 and learning, but too much addiftedto trifles, and to a licen- 

 tious mode of writing. This appears from his piece en- 

 titled " Les Biguarres," printed at Paris in 1582 ; and 

 another called " Les Touches," publifhed at Paris in 

 1585, which is a coUeftion of witty poems indelicately 

 written. Bayle. 



ACCOSTED, in Heraldry, a term not often ufed, but 

 of the fame figniflcation with Cottised. 



ACCOUCHEUR, and Accoucheuse, Fr. a man or 

 woman praftifnig midwifei'v. 



ACCOUCHMENT, Fr. the aft of delivery. 



Accouchment premature, Avortement, or Fausse 

 Couche', Fi. the premature exclufion of a foetus. 



ACCOUNT, or Accompt, of ad, to, and computus, a 

 compulation, in /Irithmetic, a calculation, or computation of 

 the number or order of certain things ; as the computation 

 €»f time, iic. There are various ways of accounting, as by 

 enumeration, or telling one by one ; and by the rules of 

 arithmetic, addition, fubtradlion, &c. 



Account, in Chronology., is nearly fynonymous with 

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Stylf. We account time by yearn, months, &c. the 

 Greeks accounted it by olympiads ; the Romans by indic- 



tions, lullres, &c. 



Account is alfo ufed in refpccl of a company or fo- 

 ciety, when two or more pcrfons have received or difburftd 

 money for eacii other; or when tliis has M^n done by 

 their order or COMMISSION. ^^ 



Account, or Accounts, is alfo ufed collcftivcly, forthe 

 feveral books or regillers whicli merchants keep of their 

 affairs and negociations. 



There are divers kinds of accounts among merchants, at 

 perfonal, real, imaginary, general, particular accounts, &c. 



AccoUN T%, perfonal, arc tiiofe which difcover v/hat eiich 

 perlon, or fubjcft, with whom a man has dealings on credit, 

 owes to, or has owing to liim. 



Accounts, real, are thofe whereby a dealcT difcovers 

 what effefts are on hand at any time, and what is gained or 

 loll on eacli. 



Every account is diflingulfhed into two parts, for which 

 two oppofite pages are afngiied of one ft^lio or opening ; 

 tlie name ol the perfon with whom a man has account being 

 written on the top of each, v.ith the word debtor on the 

 left fide, and creditor on the right. 



AccovtiT, perfonal, is to contain on the debtor fide what 

 the perfon ov.es me, and the payments I make to him ; and 

 on the creditor fide, all tiiat I owe to him, and the payments 

 he makes of his debts to me. 



Account, real, muft contain on the debtor fide the 

 quantity and value of what vras upon hand at the beginning 

 of the account, and all afterwards received, witli the cidn 

 and charges tlicreof ; and on the credit I'lde, the quantity 

 and value of what is difpofed of or any way taken out of it, 

 with the returns made by it. 



Accounts, imaginary, are then brought in to make a 

 balance between credit and debt, and in cafes where the real 

 and perfonal accounts will not in tlie articles belonging to 

 them make, as they ufually do, fuch balance. 



The chief of thefe is the account of pro/it and lofs ; on the 

 debtor fide of which are entered all lofles, and on the credi- 

 tor fide all gains. Such alfo is the Jloci account, &e. 



Accounts, yi/Hi/rji, when one account is balanced by 

 fundiy, i. e. when one is debtor or creditor for a fum, and 

 I'undiy 'accounts creditors or debtors for the parts of the 

 fum ; it is entered under the head of to, or hy, fundry accounts. 



Accounts, general, are thofe where all the goods of the 

 fame name are put into one account. 



Accounts, particular, are thofe where each fpecies, or 

 fubdivifion of things under the fame name, have their fcpa- 

 rate account. 



Account, open, is ufed for an account not liquidated or 

 fettled. 



Account, in lank, is a fund of money, which merchaHts, 

 or others, phtce in the common calli of a bank, to be in 

 readinefs for the payment of bills of exchange, or promiJTory 

 notes, purchafes, and other debts contracled in the courfc of 

 bufinefs. 



Account, current, amounts to the fame with an open 

 account. 



Account, tbening an, with any one, fignifies the placing 

 him, for the firft time, in the great book. This is done by 

 writing his name, fumame, and place of refidcnce in large 

 charaiSers, and aftciv%'ards charging him with aiticlcs, either 

 of debtor or cred'tor, as affairs turn up. When an account 

 is opened with any perfon in the great book, his name i« at 

 the fame time to be entered in tlie index or alphabet book, 

 with the page wherein his account is to be found. 



AccovtiT, placing a fum to an, is to enter down in the 

 S great 



