accelerator 
Ing the normal efficiency of the developer, to lessen the 
requisite time of exposure, (d) An accelerating nun. See 
acri'lr,-!!/' . 
acceleratory (ak-sel'e-ra-to-ri), a. Accelerat- 
ing or tending to accelerate; quickening mo- 
tion. 
accendt Oik-send'), r. t. [< L. acccndvrr, set on 
fire, burn, < ad, to, + "candvrc, burn, found only 
in comp. (see incense, r.), allied to canderc, 
glow: see candid.] To set on fire; kindle; 
inflame. 
Our devotion, if sufficiently accended, would burn up 
innumerable books of this sort. 
Dr. //. Mare, Decay of Christ. Piety. 
accendent (ak-sen'dent), n. [<L. accenden(t-)s, 
ppr. of acccndvre: see aecend.'] Same as ac- 
ccnsor. 
accendibility (ak-sen-di-bil'i-ti), H. [< aoccndi- 
blc : see -bility."] The quality of being accendi- 
ble ; inflammability. 
accendible (ak-sen'di-bl), a. [< aecend + -iblc. 
Cf . L. accensibilis, that may be burned, burning.] 
Capable of being inflamed or kindled. 
accendite (ak-sen'di-te), . [L. accendite, 2d 
pers. pi. impv. of accende'rc, light, kindle : see 
aecend.'] A short antiphon formerly chanted 
in the Roman Catholic Church on lighting the 
tapers for any special service. 
accension (ak-sen'shon), . [=Pg. acceiuSo 
= It. acccnsione, < L. as if *accensio(n-), < ae- 
census, pp. of acccndtre : see accend.~\ The act 
of kindling or setting on fire ; the state of being 
kindled; inflammation; heat. [Rare.] 
Comets, . . . besides the light that they may have from 
the sun, seem to shine with a light that is nothing else 
but an accension, which they receive from the sun. 
Locke, Elem. of Nat. Phil., it 
accensor (ak-sen'sor), n. [<ML. accensor, a 
lamplighter, < L. accenderc, pp. accensus : seeoc- 
cend.] One who sets on fire or kindles. [Rare.] 
accent (ak'sent), n. [< F. accent = Sp. acen- 
to = Pg. It. accento, < L. aecentus, accent, tone, 
LL. also a blast, signal, fig. intensity, < acci- 
nere, sing to (see accentor), < L. ad, to, + ca- 
nere, sing: see cant 2 and chant.'] 1. A spe- 
cial effort of utterance by which, in a word 
of two or more syllables, one syllable is made 
more prominent than the rest. This prominence 
is given in part by a raised pitch, in part by increased 
force or stress of voice, and in part (as a consequence of 
these) by a fuller pronunciation of the constituents of 
the syllable. These elements are variously combined in 
different languages. In English, elevation of pitch is con- 
spicuous when a word is spoken or read by itself as a 
word, without any reference to a sentence of which it 
forms or should form a part ; but in connected speech the 
tone and modulation of the sentence dominate those of 
the individual words composing it, and the change of pitch 
may be absent, or even reversed, the other elements giving 
without its aid the required prominence. By the native 
grammarians of tile classical languages of our family 
(Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit), change of pitch was the recog- 
nized constituent of accent. They called a syllable acute 
if its tone was sharpened or raised, grave if it remained 
at the general level of utterance, and circumflex if it be- 
gan at acute pitch and ended at grave. A word of three 
or more syllables often has in our language, besides its 
principal accent, another and lighter or secondary one, or 
even also a third ; such secondary accents are denoted in 
this work by a double accent-mark ; thus, val"e-tu-di- 
na'ri-an, an"te-pe-mu"ti-mate. The vowels of wholly un- 
accented syllables in English are much modified, being 
either made briefer and lighter, or else reduced even to 
the sound of the so-called neutral vowel, the " short M" 
of but. These two effects are marked in this work by 
writing respectively a single or a double dot under the 
vowel, in the respelling for pronunciation. Emphasis 
differs from accent in being expended upon a word which 
is to be made prominent in the sentence. 
2. A mark or character used in writing to 
direct the stress of the voice in pronunciation, 
or to mark a particular tone, length of vowel- 
sound, or the like. There is commonly only one such 
sign ( ' ) used to mark the stress or accent in English, except 
in works on elocution, in which are employed the three 
Greek accents, namely, the acute ('), thegraveO, and the 
circumflex (~ or " ). In elocution the first shows when the 
voice is to be raised, and is called the rising inflection ; 
the second, when it is to le depressed, and is called the 
falling inflection ; and the third, when the vowel is to be 
uttered with an undulating sound, and is called the com- 
pound or waving inflection. An accent over the e. in -ed 
is sometimes used in English poetry to denote that it is 
to be pronounced as a distinct syllable : as, lovtd or laved. 
3. In printing, an accented or marked letter; 
a type bearing an accentual or diacritical mark. 
The accents most generally used in English type (chiefly 
for foreign words), and regularly furnished in a full font, 
are the vowels bearing the acute ('), grave ('), and cir- 
cumflex (") accents, and the dieresis ("), and also the 
cedilla or Trench c (c) and the Spanish n (ft). Accents for 
occasional use are the vowels marked long (") and short 
(" ), and other marked letters required for technical works 
or peculiar to certain languages. 
4. Manner of utterance ; peculiarity of pronun- 
ciation, emphasis, or expression. Specifically, a pe- 
culiar modulation of the voice or manner of pronunciation, 
marked by subtle differences of elocution, characteristic of 
the spoken language of a given district or a particular 
rank in society, and especially of each distinct nationality. 
32 
Your accent is something finer than yon could purchase 
in so removed a dwelling. Shale., As you Like it, iii. _'. 
Mild wai liis urn-ill, and bis action free. 
l)r>t<!'-n, Tales from Cham vr. lloo.l Parson, 1. 16. 
5. Words, or tones and modulations of the 
voice, expressive of some emotion or passion : 
as, the accents of prayer; the accent of reproof. 
S!lort-\Vilhie<l '/<r< ,''- "I 1lr\V Ill-niU. 
Shalt., 1 Hen. IV., i. 1. 
The tender accent* of a woman's cry. /VM*/-. 
6. pi. Words, language, or expressions in gen- 
eral. 
Winds ; on your wings to heaven her accents bear, 
Such words as heaven alone is fit to hear. 
Dryden, Virgil's Eclogues, iii. 
Deep on their souls the mighty accents fall. 
Like lead that pierces through the walla of clay. 
June* Very, Poems, p. 77. 
7. In eccles. chanting, one of the seven forms 
of modulation used in parts sung by the officiat- 
ing priest or his assistants, viz., the immutable, 
medium, grave, acute, niixli'rate, interrogutin-. 
final. 8. In music: (a) A stress or emphasis 
given to certain notes or parts of bars in a com- 
position. It is divided into two kinds, gnunmatirnl 
and rhetorical or esthetic. The flrst is perfectly regular in 
its occurrence, always falling on the flrst part of a bar ; 
the esthetic accent is irregular, and depends on taste and 
feeling, (ft) A mark placed after the letter rep- 
resenting a note to indicate the octave in 
which it is found. Thus, if C is in the great octave 
(see octane), c is an octave above, c' an octave above that, 
c" in the next, and so on. 
9. In math, and mech. : (a) In all literal nota- 
tion, a mark like an acute accent placed after a 
letter in order that it may, without confusion, 
be used to represent different quantities. In 
this way a be, a' Re 1 , a" b"c", etc., may stand for magni- 
tudes as different in value as those which, but for the use 
of the accents, must be represented by different letters. 
Letters so marked are read thus : a prime or first (a'), a 
second (a"), a third (a"'), etc. (6) In geom . and trigon ., 
a mark at the right hand of a number indicat- 
ing minutes of a degree, two such marks indi- 
cating seconds : as, 20 10' 30" = 20 degrees, 10 
minutes, 30 seconds, (c) In tnensur. and engin., 
a mark at the right hand of a number used to 
denote feet, inches, and lines; thus, 3' 6" 7'" 
= 3 feet, 6 inches, 7 lines, (d) In plans and 
drawings, a mark similarly used after repeated 
letters or figures, to indicate related or corre- 
sponding parts, and read as in algebra. See 
above, (). =Syn. See emphaxi* and inflection. 
accent (ak-senf), '' t. [<F. ccenter = It. ac- 
centare ; from the noun. Cf . accentuate.'] 1. To 
express the accent of ; pronounce or utter with 
a particular stress or modulation of the voice : 
as, to accent a word properly. 2. To give ex- 
pression to ; utter. 
Congeal'd with grief, can scarce implore 
Strength to accent, Here my Albertus lies. W. Wotton. 
3. To mark with a written accent or accents : 
as, to accent a word in order to indicate its pro- 
nunciation. 4. To emphasize; dwell upon; 
accentuate (which see) Accented letter, in 
printing, a letter marked with an accent. See accent, n., 
3. Accented parts of a bar, in mwric, those parts of 
the bar on which the stress falls, as the first and third 
parts of the bar in common time. 
accentor (ak-seu'tor), n. [iiL., one who sings 
with another, < accinere, sing to or with, < L. 
Hedge-sparrow (Accentor modularity. 
ad, to, + canere, sing.] 1. In music, one who 
sings the leading part. 2. [F. accenteur.~\ In 
ornith. : (a) [cap.'] A genus of passerine birds, 
family Sylviidai, subfamily Accentorinai. A. mod- 
nlaris is the European hedge-sparrow, hedge-warbler, 
shuffle-wing, or dunnock. Iierh*tei, I80i See hedye- 
sparrou'. ( j) A name sometimes applied to the 
golden-crowned thrush or oven-bird, Siiiru-i 
auricapillus, a well-known passerine bird of 
the United States, of the family Sylvicolidce. 
Cones. 
accept 
Accentorinae (ak-sen-to-rl'ne), n. pi [NL., 
<. -It-oil /in- + -iini:"] A subfamily of birds, of 
the order /Vf.v.wmi and family Sylviidce, includ- 
ing the genus Accentor (which see). G. R. 
dm ii, 1840. 
accentual (ak-son'tu-al), a. and . [= It. acccn- 
hin/i; < I;, as it' "aeeen'tiinlix, < IIITI-I/IIIH, accent.] 
I. n. Pertaining to accent ; rhythmical. 
Diderol s rhoire of prose was dictated and justified by 
the accentual poverty of bis mother-tongue, 
Loirell, Among my Books, 1st scr., p. 342. 
The term flgnrate which we now employ to distin- 
guish florid from simple melody was useil tn denote that 
which was simply rhythmical or accentual. 
W. Maxon, Essay on Church Music, p. 28. 
Accentual feet.meters, etc., those in which the rhythmi- 
cal I ii 'itl 01- i. 'ins roinciiics with the syllabic accent or stress, 
as in modern poetry: opposed to quantitative feet, meter*, 
etc.. in which the ictus falls upon syllables literally long 
or prolonged in time, as in ancientGreek and Latin poetry. 
.See (jiiiintitt/. 
II. n. An accent-mark. 
accentuality (ak-sen-tu-al'i-ti), n. The qual- 
ity of being accentual. 
accentually (ak-sen'tu-al-i), adv. In an ac- 
centual manner ; with regard to accent. 
accentuate (ak-sen'tu-at), n. t.; pret. and pp. 
/!<<> n tiuiti-d, ppr. accentuating. [<LL. accen- 
tiintiix, pp. of accentuare (>F. accentuer = Sp. 
acentuar = Pg. accentuar = It. accentuare), < L. 
aecentus, accent : see accent, .] 1. To mark or 
pronounce with an accent or with accents; 
place an accent or accents on. 2. To lay stress 
upon; emphasize; give prominence to; mark 
as of importance : as, he accentuated the views 
of the party on this question. 
Still more toatetntuate this effusive welcome to a Turk- 
ish official in Turkish waters. 
Fortnightly Rev., Oct. 13, 1883, p. 60. 
accentuated (ak-sen'tu-a-ted), p. a. Strongly 
marked ; strong ; prominent ; very distinct : 
as, accentuated features; an accentuated fault 
of manner. 
The diagnostic value of an accentuated cardiac second 
sound. Edln. Med. Jour., June, 1883. 
accentuation (ak-sen-tu-a'shon), n. [< LL. ac- 
centiuitio(n-), < accentuare: see accentuate.'] 1. 
The act of accentuating or of marking accent 
or stress in speech or writing ; the state of be- 
ing accented or accentuated. 2. The mode of 
indicating accent ; accentual notation. 3. The 
act of emphasizing or laying stress ; a bring- 
ing into prominence. 
A perpetual straining after the abstract idea or law of 
change, the constant accentuation, as it is called, of prin- 
ciple in historical writing, invariably marks a narrow view 
of truth, a want of mastery over details, and a bias towards 
foregone conclusions. Stubbs, Const. Hist., III. 518. 
There is no accentuation of the distinctively feminine 
charms [of Athena in the Parthenon frieze] ; nay, from one 
aspect the head is almost boyish in character. 
The Century, XXVII. 179. 
aecentus (ak-sen'tus), n. [ML. : see accent.] 
In ancient church music, that part of the service 
which is sung or recited by the priest and his 
assistants at the altar, in contradistinction to 
concentun, the part sung by the whole choir. 
accept (ak-sept'), v. t. [<ME. accepten, <OF. 
accepter, acepter, F. accepter = Pr. acceptor = 
Sp. aceptar = Pg. aceitar = It. accettare, < L. ac- 
ceptare, receive, a freq. of accipere, pp. ac- 
ceptus, receive, < ad, to, + capere, take : see cap- 
tion.'] 1. To take or receive (somethingoffered); 
receive with approbation or favor: as, he made 
an offer which was accepted. 
Bless, Lord, his substance, and accept the work of his 
hands. Deut. xxxiii. 11. 
If you accept them, then their worth is great. 
Shak., T. of the S., ii. 1. 
2. To take (what presents itself or what befalls 
one); accommodate one's self to: as, to accept 
the situation. 
They carry it off well, these fair moving mountains, and 
like all French women accept frankly their natural for- 
tunes. Fratscr'* Mag. 
3. To listen favorably to ; grant. 
Sweet prince, accept their suit. Shak., Rich. III., iii. 7. 
4. To receive or admit and agree to ; accede or 
assent to: as, to accept a treaty, a proposal, an 
amendment, an excuse : often followed by of: 
as, I accept of the terms. 
He [Wordsworth] accepted the code of freedom and 
brotherhood as he would have accepted the proclamation 
of a new and noble kinj? . . . whose reign was to bring in 
the golden age. 
Mrs. Oliphant, Lit. Hist, of 19th Cent., I. vi. 
5. To receive in a particular sense; understand: 
as, how is this phrase to be accepted? 6. In 
com., to acknowledge, by signature, as calling 
for payment, and thus to promise to pay: as, 
