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appeafe him with the prefent that goeth before me, and 
afterward 1 will fee his face; peradventure he will accept 
of me. Gen. xxxii. 20. 
ACCEPTABILITY,/l The quality of being accept¬ 
able.—He hath given us his natural blood to be (bed for 
the remillion of our fins, and for the obtaining the grace 
and acceptability of repentance. Taylor. 
ACCEPTABLE, adj. [acceptable , Fr. from the Latin.] 
It is pronounced by fome with the accent on the firl't fyi- 
lable, as bv Milton; by others, with the accent on the 
fecond, which is more analogical. That which is likely 
to be accepted; grateful; pleafing. It is ufed with the 
particle to before the perfon accepting —I do not fee any 
other method left for men of that function to take, in or¬ 
der to reform the world, than by tiling all honeft arts to 
make themfelves acceptable to the laity. Swift. 
ACCEPTABLENESS, f. The quality of being ac¬ 
ceptable. 
ACCEPTABLY, adv- In an acceptable manner; fo as 
to pleafe; with the particle to.—If you can teach them to 
love and kelp eel: other people, they will, as your age re¬ 
quires it, find ways to exprels it acceptably to every one. 
Locke. 
ACCEPTANCE, f. [acceptance, Fr.] Reception with 
approbation. The meaning of a word as it is received or 
undejrftood; acceptation is the word now commonly ufed. 
Acceptance, in law, is as it were a kind of tacit 
agreement to a preceding adt, which might have been de¬ 
feated and avoided, were it not for Inch acceptance had. 
For example: If a bifiiop before the ftatute of 1 Eliz. 
leafed part of his bilhopric for a term of years, referving 
rent,, and then died; and afterwards another is made bi¬ 
fiiop, who accepts and receives the rent when due, by this 
acceptance the leafe is made good, which otherwife the 
new' bifiiop might have avoided. So if hujband and wife , 
feifed of lands in right of the wife, join and make a leafe, 
referving rent, and the hulband dies, after whole death 
the wife receives or accepts the rent; by this the leafe is 
confirmed, and it fiiall bind her. So if tenant in dower 
leafes for years, and dies, and the heir accepts the rent. 
But if a parj'on makes a leafe for years not warranted by the 
ftatute 32 i-Ien. VIII. and which confequently is void by 
his death, acceptance of rent by a new parfon or fuccel- 
for will not make it good. 1 Saund. 241. And it a tenant 
for life makes a leafe for years, there no acceptance will 
make the leafe good, becaufe the leafe is void by his death. 
Dyer, 46. 239. But if tenant in tail makes a leafe for years, 
rendering rent, and then dies, and the iflfue accepts the 
rent, it fiiall bind him. But it- Inch tenant in tail makes 
a leafe for years to commence after his death, rendering 
rent; in fuch cafe, acceptance of rent by the ilfue will 
not make the leafe good to bar him, becaufe the leafe did 
not take effebt in the life of his anceftor. Flowd. 418. If 
an infant, accepts of rent at his full age, it makes the leafe 
good, and fiiall bind him. If a leafe is made on condition 
that the lefiee fiiall do no wajle, and he commits wafte, and 
afterwards the leflor accepts the rent, he cannot enter for 
the condition broken; becaufe he thereby affirms the leafe 
to have continuance. 1 Injl. 211. If the lefl'or accepts 
from his tenant the laft rent due to him,' and gives the lef- 
fee a releafe for it; all rent in arrear is by law prefumed 
to be fatisfied. 1 Injl. 373. 
Acceptance of a bill of exchange by the perfon on whom 
it is drawn (fo as to charge the drawer withcofts) mufit be 
in writing, under or on the back of the bill. But if he 
accepts it, either verbally or in writing, he thereby makes 
himfelf liable to pay it. If he reiufes to accept it, and 
it is of the value of 20I. or upwards, and exprelfed to be 
for value received, the perfon to whom it is made payable, 
or to whom it isindorfed, may p rote ft it for non-acceptance 
which proteft muff be made in writing, under a copy of 
fuch bill of exchange, by a notary public; or, if no no¬ 
tary public be refident in the. place, then by any other fub- 
fiantial inhabitant in the prefence of two witneftes: and 
notice of fuch proteft mull, within fourteen days after, be 
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given fo the drawer. But if the bill be accepted, and' 
afterwards the accepter fails or refufes to pay it within 
three days after it becomes due (which three days arc 
called days of grace), the fame mull for non-payment be 
protefted and notified, in like manner as for non-accept¬ 
ance. And, on producing the proteft, either of non-ac¬ 
ceptance or non-payment, the drawer is bound to make 
good to the payee or indorfee, not only the amount of the 
bill (which he is bound to do within a reafonable time after 
non-payment, without any proteft, by the rules of the 
common law), but alfo intereft and all charges, to be com¬ 
puted from tlie time of making the proteft. 2 Elackjl. 469. 
Acceptance, in the church of Rome, is put for re¬ 
ceiving the pope’s conftitutions, 
ACCEPTATION,/. Reception, whether good or bad. 
This large fenfe now feems wholly out of ufe.—What is 
new finds better acceptation, than what is good or great. 
Denham. —Good reception, acceptance.-“Cain, envious of 
the acceptation of his brother’s prayer and lacririce, flew 
him; making himfelf the fir ft manflayer, and his brother 
the firft martyr. Raleigh. —The ftate of being acceptable; 
regard. Acceptance in the juridical fenfe : this fenfe oc¬ 
curs rarely. The meaning of a word, as it is commonly 
received. 
ACCEPTER, /. The perfon that accepts. 
ACCEPT 1 LA LION,/! [ acceptilatio , Lat.] A term of 
the civil law, importing the, remillion of a debt by an ac¬ 
quittance from the creditor, teftifying the receipt of mo¬ 
ney which has never been paid. 
ACCEPTION, f. [acception, Fr. from acceptio, Lat.] 
The received fenfe of a word ; the meaning. Not in ufe. 
ACCESS, f [In fome of its fenfes, it teems- derived 
from acccjfus ; in others, from accejfio, Lat. acces, Fr.] The 
way by which any thing may be approached. The means,- 
or liberty, of approaching either to things or men. , En- 
creafe, enlargement, addition. It is fometimes ufed, after 
the French, to fignify the returns or fits of a diftemper; 
but this fenfe feems yet fcarcely received into our language, 
ACCESSARINESS,/ The ftate of being acceflary. 
ACCESSARY, adj. [A corruption, as it feems, of 
the word accejfory, which fee; but now more commonly 
ufed than the proper word.] That which, without being 
the chief conftituent of a crime, contributes to it. But 
it had formerly a good and general fenfe. 
ACCESSIBLE, adj. [ accejjibilis , Lat. accejjible , Fr. ] 
That which may be approached ; that which we may reach 
or arrive at. It is applied both to perfons and things, 
with the particle to. —Asanifland, we are accejjible on eve-' 
ry fide, and expofed to perpetual invafions; againft which 
it is impoflible to fortify ourfelves fufficiently, without a 
power at fea. Addifort. 
ACCESSION,/. \_acceJfto, Lat. accrjfion, Fr.] Increafe 
by fomething added, enlargement, augmentation. The 
a£t of coming to, or joining one’s felf to ; as, accejfon to a 
confederacy. The add of arriving at; as, the king’s ac- 
cejjion to the throne. 
Accession, inlaw, is-a method of acquiring proper¬ 
ty, by which, in things that have a dole connection or de¬ 
pendence upon one another, the property of the principal 
thing draws after it the property of the accelfory. Thus, 
the owner of a cow becomes likewife the owner of the 
calf. It fometimes likewife li<gnifi.es confent or acquiefcence. 
Accession, among phylicians, is ufed for a paroxyfm 
of a difeafe. 
ACCESSORILY, adi). In the manner of an acceftofy, 
ACCESSORY, adj. Joined to another thing fo as to 
cncreafe it; addditional. 
Accessory,/! [ accejforious , Lat, acceJJ'oire, Fr. This 
word, which had anciently a general ligmfication, is now 
almoft confined to forms of law.] Applied to perfons: 
Now were all transform’d 
Alike, to ferpents all, as accejforics 
To his bold riot.' - Milton. 
Applied to tilings,—An accejfory is faid to be that which 
does 
