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ACCOLTI (Bernardo), fe'cretary to the republic of 
Florence, was furnamed L’Unico, or the Nonfuch, pro¬ 
bably from the great extent of his underftanding, the va¬ 
riety of fciences he had acquired, and the excellency of 
his poetic vein; which not only gained him a feat among 
the academicians of the court of Urbino, but made that 
great Mecsmas, Pope Leo X. in 1520, create him prince 
of the Hate of Nepi. He wrote many pieces; among 
others, a collection of beautiful poems, printed at Venice 
in 1519 and 1553. 
ACCOMMODABLE, adj. [_accommodabilis, Lat.] That 
which may be fitted; with the particle to. —As there is in¬ 
finite variety in the circumftances of perfons, tilings, ac¬ 
tions, times, and places; fo we muff be furnifhed with fuch 
general rules as are accommodabk to all this variety, by a 
wife judgment and difcretion. Watts. 
To ACCOMMODATE, v. a. [acccmmodo , Lat.] To 
fupj ly with conveniences of any kind. It has with before 
the ihing. With the particle to, to adapt, to fit, to make 
conllflent with. To reconcile; to adjuft what feems in¬ 
continent, or at variance; to make coniifiency appear. 
To Accommodate, v. n. To be conformable to.—• 
They make the particular enfigns of the twelve tribes ac¬ 
commodate unto the twelve figns of the zodiac. Brown. 
Accommodate, adj. \_accommodalus, Lat.] Suitable, 
fit: 11 fed fometimes with the particle for, but more fre¬ 
quently with to. —They are fo aCted and directed by na¬ 
ture, as to calf their eggs in fuch places as are mod accom¬ 
modate for the exclufion of their young, and where there 
is food le idy for them as foon as they be hatched. Ray. 
—In thefe cafes we examine the why, the what, and the 
how, of tilings, and propofe means accommodate to the end. 
V Ef range. 
ACCOMMODATELY, adv. Suitably, fitly. 
ACCOMMODATION, f. Provifioti of conveniences. 
In the plural, conveniencies, things requifite to eafe or 
refrefhment. Compolition of a difference, reconciliation, 
adjustment. Adaptation, fitnefs; with the particles.—• 
The organization of the body, with accommodation to its 
functions, is fitted with the moll curious inechanifm. 
Hale. 
Accommodation, in a fcriptural fenfe, is the appli¬ 
cation of one thing, by analogy, to another; or the ma¬ 
king two or more things agree with one another. To know 
a thing by accommodation, is to know it by the idea of a fi- 
milar thing referred thereto. A prophecy of Scripture is 
laid to be fulfilled various ways; properly, as when a 
thing foretold comes to pafs; and improperly, or by way 
of accommodation, when an event happens to any place or 
people, like to w'hat fell out fome time before to another. 
Thus, the words of Ifaiah, fpoken to thofe of his own 
time, are faid to be fulfilled in thofe who lived in our 
Saviour’s; and are accommodated to them: “Ye hypocrites, 
well did Ifaias prophecy of you, &c.” which fame words 
St. Paul afterwards accommodates to the Jews of his time. 
The primitive church accommodated multitudes of Jew- 
ifll, and even heathen, ceremonies and practices, to Chrif- 
lian purpofes; but the Jews had before done the fame by 
the Gentiles: fome will even have circumcifion, the ta¬ 
bernacle, brazen ferpent, &c. to have been originally of 
Egyptian ufe, and only accommodated by Mofes to the pur¬ 
pofes of Judaifm. 
ACCOMPANIER,/. The perfon that makes part of 
the company; companion. 
To ACCOMPANY, v. a. [ accompagner, Fr.] To be 
with anofher as a companion. It is ufed both of perfons 
and things: 
Go vifit her, in her chafte bower of reft, 
.Accompany’’d with angel-like delights. Spenfcr. 
To Accompany, v. n. To alTociate with; to become 
a companion to.—No man in effect doth accompany with 
•others, but he learneth, ere he is aware, fome gefture, 
voice, or fafhion. Bacon. 
ACCOMPANIMENT,./, Something attending or add- 
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ed as a circumftance to another, either by way of orna¬ 
ment, or for the fake of fymmetry. 
Accompaniment, in mufic, denotes the inftruments 
which accompany a voice, in order to fuftain it, as well as 
to make the mufic more full. The accompaniment is ufed 
in recitative as well as in fong; on the (fage, as well as in 
the choir, See. The ancients had likewife their accompa¬ 
niments on the theatre; they had even different kinds of 
inftruments to accompany the chorus, from thofe which 
accompanied the aCtors in the recitation.—The accompa¬ 
niment among the moderns, is frequently a different part or 
melody from the fong it accompanies. It is difputed w he- 
ther it was fo among the ancients. It is generally alleged, 
that their accompaniments went no farther than the play¬ 
ing in ottave, or in antiphony to the voice. 
Accompaniment, in painting, denotes fuch objects 
as are added, either by way of ornament, or probability; 
as dogs, guns, game, See. in a hunting-piece. 
Accompaniment, in heraldry, any thing added to a 
a fhield by way of ornament; as the belt, mantling, fup- 
porters, &c. It is alfo applied to feveral bearings about a 
principal one ; as a faltier, bend, fefs, chevron, &c. 
ACCOMPLICE,/. [ complice , Fr. from complex, a word 
in the barbarous Latin much in ufe. ] An affociate, a par¬ 
taker, ufually in an ill fenfe. A partner, or co-operator ;■ 
in a fenfe indifferent. It is ufed with the particle to before 
a thing, and with before a perfon : 
Childlefs Arturius, vaftly rich before, 
Thus by his Ioffes multiplies his (lore, 
Sufpefiled for accomplice to the fire. 
That burnt his palace but to build it higher. Dry den. 
Who, fhould they fteal for want of his relief, 
He judg’d himfelf accomplice with the thief. Dryden. 
To ACCOMPLISH, v. a. [accomplir, Fr. from complco, 
Lat.] To complete, to execute fully; as, to accomplifh a 
defign. To complete a period of time. To fulfil; as a 
prophecy. To gain, to obtain. To adorn, or furnifh, ei¬ 
ther mind or body. 
ACCOMPLISHED, part. adj. Complete in fome qua¬ 
lification. Elegant; finifhed in refpeCt of embellifhments; 
ufed commonly of acquired qualifications, without inclu¬ 
ding moral excellence. 
ACCOMPLISHER, f. The perfon that accomplifhes. 
ACCOMPLISHMENT/. [accompUJfemevt, Fr.] Com¬ 
pletion, full performance, perfection. Completion; as, 
of a prophecy. The aCt of obtaining or perfecting any 
thing; attainment; completion. Embellifhment, elegance, 
ornament of mind or body.—Young heirs, and elder bro¬ 
thers, from their own reflecting upon the eftates they are 
born to, and, therefore, thinking all other accompli/hments 
unneceffary, are- of no manner of ufe but to keep up their 
families. Addifon. 
Accomplishment, in a fcriptural fenfe, is princi¬ 
pally ufed in fpeaking of events foretold by the Jewifh 
prophets in the Old Teftament, and fulfilled under the 
New. We fay a literal accomplifliment, a myftical or fpi- 
ritual accompliIhment, a fingle accomplifhment, a double 
accomplifliment, a Jewifh accomplifhment, a Chriftian, a 
heathen, accomplifhment. The fame prophecy is fome¬ 
times accomplifhed.in all, or in feveral of thofe different 
ways. Thus, of fome of the prophecies of the Old Tef¬ 
tament, the Jews find a literal accompliihment in their 
own hiffory, about the time when the prophecy was given: 
the Chriftians find another in Chrift, or the earlieft days 
of the church; the heathens another, in fome of their 
emperors; the Mahometans another, in their legiflator. 
See. There are two principal ways of accomplilhing a 
prop’nechy; direbify, and by accommodation. See Accom¬ 
modation a'nd Prophecy. 
ACCOMPT,/ [Fr. compter and compte, anciently ac - 
compter .] An account, a reckoning. See Account. 
To ACCORD, v. a. [derived by fome from corcla, the 
firing of a mufical inftrument, by others from cord a, hearts; 
in the firfi implying harmony } in the other unity -1 Tcnnake 
