Academy :: Academy (n.) An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school..

Academy :: Academy (n.) A place of training; a school.

Academy :: Academy (n.) A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology..

Academy :: Academy (n.) A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music..

Accede :: Accede (v. i.) To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede.

Accede :: Accede (v. i.) To enter upon an office or dignity; to attain.

Accede :: Accede (v. i.) To become a party by associating one's self with others; to give one's adhesion. Hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request..

Acceded :: Acceded (imp. & p. p.) of Acced.

Accedence :: Accedence (n.) The act of acceding.

Acceder :: Acceder (n.) One who accedes.

Accidence :: Accidence (n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar..

Accidence :: Accidence (n.) The rudiments of any subject.

Accident :: Accident (n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident..

Accident :: Accident (n.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case..

Accident :: Accident (n.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

Accident :: Accident (n.) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute..

Accident :: Accident (n.) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness..

Accident :: Accident (n.) Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident..

Accident :: Accident (n.) Unusual appearance or effect.

Accidental :: Accidental (a.) Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit..

Accidental :: Accidental (a.) Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play..

Accidental :: Accidental (n.) A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.

Accidental :: Accidental (n.) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

Accidental :: Accidental (n.) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note..

Accidentalism :: Accidentalism (n.) Accidental character or effect.

Accidentality :: Accidentality (n.) The quality of being accidental; accidentalness.

Accidentally :: Accidentally (adv.) In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.

Accidentalness :: Accidentalness (n.) The quality of being accidental; casualness.

Accolade :: Accolade (n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword..

Accolade :: Accolade (n.) A brace used to join two or more staves.

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