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fine to the king I^o perfon is obliged to anfwer upon 
.oath to a queftion whereby he may accufe himfelf of any 
crime. 
ACCUSATIVE, adj. [ accufativus, Lat.] A term of 
grammar, fignifying the relation of the noun, on which 
the action implied in the verb terminates; and hence, in 
fuch languages as have cafes, thefe nouns have a particu¬ 
lar termination, called accufative: as, Augujius vicit Anto- 
niurri, Auguftus vanquilhed Antony. Here Antonium is 
the noun, on which the aftion implied in the verb vicit 
terminates; and, therefore, mult have the accufative ter¬ 
mination. Ovid, fpeaking of the palace of the fun, fays, 
Materian fuperabat opus, The work furpalfed the materials. 
Here materiem has the accufative termination; becaufe it 
determines the aftion of the verb fuperabat _In the Eng- 
li fit language there are no cafes, except the genitive ; the 
•relation of the noun being fliewn by the aflJftance of pre- 
poiitions, as of, to, from, &c. 
ACCUSATORY, adj. That which produceth or con- 
taineth an accufation..—In a charge of adultery, the ac- 
cufcr ought to fet forth, in the accufatory libel, fome cer¬ 
tain and definite time. Aylijfe. 
To ACCUSE, v. a. [ accufo, Lat.] To charge with a 
crime. It requires the particle of before the fubjeft of 
accufation: 
He (tripp’d the bear’s-foot of its leafy growth; 
And, calling weftern winds, accus’d the fpring of floth. 
Dryden. 
It fometimes admits the particle for. —Never fend up a leg 
of a fowl at fupper, while there is a cat or dog in the 
houfe that can be accufcdfor running away with it: but, 
if there happen to be neither, you mult lay it upon the 
rats, or a ltrange greyhound. Swift. —To blame or cen- 
fure, in oppoiition to applaufe or junification. —Their con¬ 
fidence bearing witnefs, and their thoughts the meanwhile 
accufrng or elfe excufing one another. Rom. ii. 15. 
ACCUSER, /. He that brings a charge againft another. 
—There are fome perfons forbidden to be accufers, on the 
fcore of their fex, as women; others, of their age, as 
pupils and infants; others, upon the account of fome 
crimes committed by them; and others, on the fcore of 
fome filthy lucre they propofe to gain thereby; others, on 
the fcore of their conditions, as libertines againft their pa¬ 
trons; and others, through a fufpicion of calumny, as 
having once already given falfe evidence; and, laftly, others 
on account of their poverty, as not being worth more than 
fifty aurei. Ayliffe. 
ACCUSIORUM COLONIA, anciently an inland town 
in the Cavares, in Gallia Narbonenlis: now Grenoble, in 
Dauphine. See Grenoble. 
To ACCUSTOM, v. a. [ accoutumer , Fr.] To habitu¬ 
ate, to enure, with the particle to. It is ufed chiefly of 
perfons: 
How fhall we breathe in other air 
Lefs pure, accujlom'd to immortal fruits ? Milton. 
fio Accustom, k. ti. To be wont to do any thing. Ob- 
folete.—A boat over-freighted funk, and all drowned, 
faving one woman, that in her firft popping up again, which 
mod living things accuftom, got hold of the boat. Carezo. 
ACCUSTOM ABLE, adj. Of long cuftom or habit; 
habitual, cuftomary.—Animals even of the fame original, 
extraction, and fpecies, may be diverfified by accujlomabk 
refidence in one climate, from what they are in another. 
Hale. 
ACCUSTOMABLY, adv. According to cuftom.— 
Touching the king’s fines accujlomably paid for the pur- 
chafing of writs original, I find no certain beginning of 
them, and do therefore think that they grew up with the 
chancery. Bacon. 
ACCUSTOMANCE,yi [ accoutumance, Fr.] Cuftom, 
habit, ufe.—Through accufomance and negligence, and per¬ 
haps fome other caufes, we neither feel it in our own bo¬ 
dies, nor take notice of it in others. Boyle, 
ACE 
ACCUSTOMARILY, adv. In a cuftomary manner ; 
according to common or cuftomary practice. 
ACCUSTOMARY, adj. [from accujlom. ] Ufual, prac. 
tiled; according to cuftom. 
ACCUSTOMED, adj. [from accvfomf According to 
cuftom ; frequent; ufual.—-Look how fhe rubs her hands. 
It is an accujlomed action with her, to feem thus walhing 
her hands : I have known her continue in this a quarter 
of an hour. ShakeJ'peare. 
ACE ,f [As not only fignified a piece of money, but any 
integer, from whence is derived the word ace, or unit. 
Thus as fignified the whole inheritance. Arbuthnot on coins. ] 
—An unit; a fingle point on cards or dice.—When lots 
are fliuffled together in a lap, urn, or pitcher ; or if a man 
blindfold calls a die, what reafon in the world can he have 
to prefume, that he fhall draw a white ftone rather than a 
black, or throw an are rather than a fife. South .—A fmall 
quantity; a particle ; an atom.—I'll not wag an ace far¬ 
ther ; the whole world fhall not bribe me to it. Dryden. 
ACELUM, or Acelium, anciently a town of the Ve¬ 
netian territory, now called Azolo, lituated to the weft of 
Trevigi, atthe l'ourceof the rivulet Mufone. E. Ion. 13°. 
N. lat. 45®. 
ACENTETUM, or Acanteta, in natural hiftory, a 
name given by the ancients to the pureft and fined kind 
of rock-cry dal. They ufed the cryftal in many ways ; 
fometimes engraving on it, and fometimes forming it into 
vafes and cups, which were held next in value to the va- 
fa murrhina of thofe times. The cryftal they obtained from 
the illand of Cyprus was much efteemed; but often faulty 
in particular parts, having hairs, cracks, and foulneffes, 
which they called falls, in the middle of the large pieces. 
Pliny tells us, that, when it was ufed for engraving on, the 
artift could conceal all thefe blemifhes among the itrokes 
of his work; but, when it was to be formed into cups or 
precious vafes, they always chofe the acentetum which had 
no flaws or blemifhes. 
ACEPHALI, or Acephalit^e, a term applied to fe- 
veral feeds who refufed to follow fome noted leader. Thus 
the perfons who refufed to follow either John of Antioch 
or St. Cyril, in a difpute that happened in the council of 
Ephefus, were termed Accphali, without a head or leader. 
Such bifhops, alfo, as were exempt from the jurifdiftion 
and difeipline of their patriarch, were ftiled Acephali. 
Acephali, the levellers in the reign of king Henry I. 
who acknowledged no head or fuperior. They were reck¬ 
oned fio poor, that they had not a tenement by which they 
might acknowledge a fuperior lord. 
ACEPHALOUS, adj. [ a.v.i(poM§>-^ Gr.] Without a 
head. The term is more particularly ufed in fpeaking of 
certain nations, or people, reprefented by ancient natural- 
ills and cofmographers, as well as by fome modern tra¬ 
vellers, as formed without heads ; their eyes, mouths, &c. 
being placed in other parts. 
Such are the Blemmyes, a nation of Africa near the head 
of the Niger, reprefented to be by Pliny and Solinus; 
Blemmyes traduntur capita abejfe, ore et oculis pcElore ajfixis. 
Ctefiasand Solinus mention others in India near the Gan¬ 
ges, fine cervice, oculos in humeris habentes. Mela alfo fpeaks 
of people, quibus capita et vultus in peElore Junt. And Sui- 
das, Stephanus Byzantinus, Vopifcus, and others after 
them, relate the like. Some modern travellers Hill pre¬ 
tend to find acephalous people in America. 
Several opinions have been framed as to the origin of 
the fable of the Acephali. The firft is that of Thomas 
Bartholin, who turns the whole into a metaphor; being 
convinced, that the name Acephali was anciently given to 
fuch as had lefs brain, or conducted themfelves lefs by 
the rules of prudence, than others. Olearius rather ap¬ 
prehends, that the ancient voyagers, viewing certain bar¬ 
barous people from the coafts, had been impofed on by 
their uncouth drefs ; for that the Samogitians, being Ihort 
of ftature-, and going in the feverity of winter with their 
heads covered in hoods,, feem at a diftance as if they were 
headlefs,. 
