/accomplish-meaning

/accomplish-meaning-etymology

-) Verb.

-) Pronunciation and accent: əkʌmplɪʃ, əkɒmplɪʃ. 

-) Preterite tense: accomplished (əkʌmplɪʃt). Preterite participle: accomplished.

-) Present participle: accomplishing.

-) Etymology: from Old French acompliss-, stem of acomplir (now French accomplir), from Latin ad- to + complere “to fill up, complete”, from com- (intensive prefix) + plere “to fill”.

-) Documented since 1300.

-) Transitively: -) 1. To cause the accomplishment of (something that was potential, purposed, feared, etc.); to cause to become fully actual; to do to completion.

-) Synonyms for “accomplish”: achieve, perfom, effect, cause, fulfil, realize, consummate, complete, effectuate.

-) Translation: accomplir, in French; cumplir, in Spanish; compiere, in Italian.

It is possible, however, that some one may, at length, have accomplished what others have hitherto vainly attempted.

J. Scott… The London Magazine… 1820

What shall we think of a machine which can not only accomplish all this, but actually print off its elaborate results, when obtained, without the slightest intervention of the intellect of man?

Poe… Maelzel’s Chess-Player… 1836

The scarabaeus hung quite clear of any branches, and, if allowed to fall, would have fallen at our feet. Legrand immediately took the scythe, and cleared with it a circular space, three or four yards in diameter, just beneath the insect, and, having accomplished this, ordered Jupiter to let go the string and come down from the tree.

Poe… The Gold-Bug… 1843

All was now confusion and despair--but an effort was made to lighten the ship by throwing overboard as much of her cargo as could be reached, and by cutting away the two masts that remained. This we at last accomplished--but we were still unable to do any thing at the pumps.

Poe… The Oblong Box… 1844

I seized a salt-cellar which lay within reach, and hurled it at the head of the intruder. Either he dodged, however, or my aim was inaccurate; for all I accomplished was the demolition of the crystal which protected the dial of the clock upon the mantelpiece.

Poe… The Angel… 1844

Scarcely was this portion of the lesson accomplished, when steps were heard ascending the stairs.

G. Reynolds… The Mysteries… 1844

… his fears in this respect were not accomplished.

G. Reynolds… The Mysteries… 1844

You can never accomplish your schemes through my agency!

G. Reynolds… The Mysteries… 1844

He felt certain that his wishes would be accomplished.

G. Reynolds… The Mysteries… 1844

-) Reflexively:

A revolution takes place in society only when a moral revolution has previously accomplished itself in the minds of men.

The Westminster Review

-) 2. To execute or do (a work) to completion; to finish; to complete.

How that work was accomplished it is useless to inquire.

Wilkie Collins… Basil… 1852

… a still more ambitious work was accomplished by John Minsheu in the production of a polyglot dictionary of English with ten other languages…

J. Murray… The evolution of English lexicography… 1900

-) 3. -) a. In an time calculation: to get the grade of completeness of (an age). -) b. In an distance calculation: to get the grade of completeness of (distance gone); to reach completely.

-) Synonym: to complete.

Before we had accomplished half our journey, though it was but fifteen mile, I resolved we should go straight on to the village for the night, and take a fresh day to examine the land.

J. Galt… Lawrie Todd… 1830

… having accomplished three miles of the retreat, the party arrived at the main road that extended between Innis's camp and Blackstock's.

 J. Kennedy… Horse-Shoe Robinson… 1852

-) 4. To make complete with a contributory adjunct, an accessory, etc.; to equip completely; to improve into something complete or perfect.

-) 5. To improve (someone) completely; to make (a person) acquire a complete ability, quality, etc.

The son of a cheesemonger is sent to a little academy to accomplish him for a gentleman.

B. Dawson… Philologia Anglicana… 1806

She did not wish, she said, to be a thing to be looked at, therefore she pursued other studies than those which are sometimes considered to accomplish a lady; and when she returned from school, she could keep her father's books.

The Universalist… vol. 11… 1842

-) Reflexively:

… there are not many who show any very extraordinary zeal to accomplish themselves in the principles and practice of composition.

The Edinburgh Review… 1802-1929

… to accomplish myself in the knowledge of men.

Colburn's New Monthly Magazine… 1845

… if she would only consent to remain at the institution another year, at her own cost, until she had accomplished herself on the piano and harp […] that she should then come to her to share her home and fortune.

E. Southworth… Retribution… 1849

Thus was my resolve renewed to accomplish myself as a gymnast, and, above all, to develop my physical strength.

Atlantic Monthly, vol. 9… 1862

-) In preterite participle:

Well-educated and accomplished herself, she was able to do this with success.

T. Arthur… Madeline… 1845

-) Words derived from “accomplish”: accomplishable, accomplisher, accomplishing, accomplishment, unaccomplishable, unaccomplished, unaccomplishment.

-) Words derived from Latin plere, see COMPLETIVE.

 

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/accede-meaning

/accede-meaning-etymology

-) Verb.

-) Pronunciation and accent: æksiːd. 

-) Preterite tense: acceded. Preterite participle: acceded.

-) Present participle: acceding.

-) Etymology: from Latin accēdĕre “to approach, accede”, from ac- “to” + cēdĕre “to move on, go, come”. The French accéder, Italian accedere and Spanish acceder are from the same origin.

-) Documented since 1600.

-) Intransitively: -) 1. To come to a place; to come forward; to approach.

-) It is rarely found.

-) Antonym for “accede”: to recede. 

[The balls] acceded a little, and when he removed the heated iron, they returned to their place again.

The Philosophical Transactions, vol. XI… 1676

-) 2. To assume an office, after progression; to make accession.

-) With preposition “to” + noun.

-) 3. To make accession; to become a participator, accessary or party; to associate with another or others in a league, confederacy, etc. Hence, to agree or assent to a proposal, request, etc.

-) With preposition “to” + noun.

-) Translation: accéder, in French; acceder, in Spanish; accedere, in Italian.

-) Synonyms: consent, concur, comply, acquiesce.

-) Antonyms of “accede”: disagree, dissent.

It was among the first states that acceded to the union.

Melish… United States of America… 1806-1812

This was not acceded to on the part of the poet, without considerable reluctance; but the gentleman's pressing solicitations prevailed on him to consent.

The miscellaneous works of… Goldsmith… 1809

As this time, the father of […] Frediani, wishing to settle the differences that so long had disturbed the two families, proposed a marriage between a daughter of Luc' Antonio and his grandson. This proposal was acceded to.

J. Scott… The London Magazine… 1820

… a foreigner called at Markham Place and requested a few moment's private conversation with our hero.

The request was immediately acceded to; and the foreigner was shown into the library.

 G. Reynolds… The mysteries of London… 1844

Markham cordially acceded to this suggestion.

G. Reynolds… The mysteries of London… 1844

Both would have been in direct contradiction of the treaty of Fontainbleau, to which Britain had acceded, though she was not of the contracting parties.

Scott… Napoleon… 1876

-) English words derived from “accede”: access, accessarily, accessariness, accessary, accessibility, accessible, accessibly, accessibleness, accession, accessional, accessorial, accessorily, accessoriness, accessorize, accessory, unaccessory, accidence, accede, acceding.

-) Words derived from Latin cēdĕre: see INTERCEDE.

 

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/abut-meaning

/abut-meaning-etymology

-) Verb.

-) Pronunciation and accent: əbʌt.

-) Etymology: from Old French abouter “to border on”, from a- (to) + buter “to push, strike”. The word was perhaps confused with Old French abuter “to put end to end, to come to an end, to aim”, from a- (to) + but “end, thing aimed at, purpose”.

-) Preterite tense: abutted. Preterite participle: abutted.

-) Present participle: abutting.

-) Documented since 1200.

-) Intransitively: a. (Of a land, estate, region, or the like) to be contiguous with another, along a border. 

-) Synonyms for “abut”: march with; border on; skirt; end at.

-) b. (Of two or more substances, estructures, etc) to be contiguous with a projecting part or end, as strata do when it is supported by another.

-) Translation: aboutir, in French; colindar, in Spanish; confinare, in Italian.

These glaciers […] were detached, not running in continuous curves along the coast, but abutting from opening valleys.

E. Kane…. Grinnell Expedition… 1915

-)With the preposition “on”, “upon”, “into”, or “against” + noun of what is contiguous:

To apply the arches to their piers, and to one another, they should abut upon one another.

A. Jamieson… A Dictionary of Mechanical Science… 1827

The passages wound through the walls of the modern part of the palace and abutted in effect at the old Owl Tower, as it was called, on the outer wall.

Thackeray… Barry Lyndon… 1844

Nevertheless, the houses in Guildford Place were near; and their back premises abutted against the outer aide of the wall along which he was now proceeding.

G. Reynolds… The mysteries of London… 1844

It was a steep rocky cliff, abutting far into the stream.  

Poe… Morning… 1844

Within this same crater, strata of coarse tuff, chiefly composed of fragments of lava, abut, like a consolidated talus, against the inside walls.

Darwin… Volcanic Islands… 1844

Philadelphia goes early to bed, and the streets were lonely and silent, but much better lighted than the portion of the town abutting upon the Delaware.

A. Mackay… The Western World… 1849

This afternoon a carrier’s cart with two men made a call at the empty house whose grounds abut on ours.

Bram Stoker… Dracula… 1897

-) Transitively: -) 1. To adjoin with an end; to border on.

[Blofield] is situated to the N. E. of Henstead, and, abutting the city of Norwich on its western extremity, comprehends an area of about twelve miles in length.

J. Dugdale… The New British Traveller… 1819

The said river wall is intended to be constructed as nearly as possible parrallel throughout with the raised land abutting the shore.

The London Gazette, Part 2… 1829

… other similar laths are then to be nailed throughout the whole length of the joists with their ends abutting each other.

The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, vol. 23, 1835

… the argillaceous summits of the southern part are abutted by limestone.

G. Long… The geography of Great Britain… 1850

When two arches were placed abutting each other.

W. Bland… Experimental Essays… 1862

-) 2. To cause to abut or end against; to support by abutment; as, to abut a timber against a post.

To take and assess the value of such portion of the land in a like case, upon which a mill dam has been abutted with the consent of the owner. 

The Statutes of the State of Indiana… 1852

-) Words derived from “abut”: abutter, abutting, abutment, abuttal.

 

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/droop-meaning

/droop-meaning-etymology

-) Verb.

-) Pronunciation: druːp.

-) Etymology: from Middle English drupen.

-) Preterite tense: drooped (druːpt). Preterite participle: drooped.

-) Present participle: drooping.

-) Documented since 1300.

-) Intransitively: -) 1. (Of a plant, animal, etc.) to have or undergo a bent posture, or inclination or fall, from physical inability or fatigue, want of nourishment, or the like.

-) Synonym for “droop”: (of a plant) to flag.

-) Translation: tomber, in French; caer, in Spanish; cadere, in Italian.

Like a delicate flower, that has drooped on, being deprived of air and light and which suddenly revives when revisited by the zephyr and the sunbeam, she appeared to have recovered in that morning walk some portion of her former animation.

Bentley's Miscellany… 1842

He dropped the cup and spurred his horse away; but, soon fainting with loss of blood, drooped from the saddle.

Dickens… A Child's History… 1851

-) 2. -) a. (Of a part of a body) to become suspended from another while being attracted downward by gravity; to be or become inclined from its vertical position, without disunion. -) b. Particularly: (of eyes) to be inclined downward, with the eyelids lowered; (of head, gaze, etc.) to be or become inclined from its vertical position.

-) Synonyms for “droop”: hang, dangle.

She suffered her head to droop back again upon the grass.

G. Rainsford… The False Heir… 1843

Miss Walker's head suddenly drooped on Mr. Collins's shoulder.

The Irish Metropolitan Magazine, vol. III… 1858

Then she looked, for the first time that night, so hardly into his stern and sallow countenance, as to make his gaze droop before her own.

E. Meteyard… Mainstone’s Housekeeper, vol. II… 1860

Heavy eyelids drooped over his eyes.

Oscar Wilde… The Fisherman… 1891

By that time the tree is a month old, you may perceive a small body almost as big as one's arm, and then there are eight or ten leaves, some of them four or five foot high […]. As the young leaves spring up in the inside, so the old leaves spread off, and their tops droop downward, being of a greater length and breadth by how much they are nearer the root, and at last decay and rot off…

W. Dampier… Voyage Round the World… 1937

-) With the preposition “from” + noun:

The leaves drooped from the stem without losing colour.

J. Lindley… An Introduction to Botany… 1835

… the profusion of fair tresses that drooped from the head of Miss Dorcas, mingled in charming contrast with Ada's luxuriant, dark hair.

J. Maitland… The watchman… 1855

-) 3. (Now only of the sun, day, etc.) to descend into a space; to decline, go down

 Already the sun was drooping far down the west, and sending its golden glow sideways through the trees.

Star Papers… 1855

-) 4. To become gradually less in vital strength and energy; to languish.

But nothing can reconcile the children of the Indians, to the customs, manners, and methods of living among the Europeans: However caressed and indulge ed, they droop and languish, until they return to the freedom and wildness of the forest.

S. Williams… History of Vermont… 1809

The horse drooped from fatigue.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine… 1847

-) 5. To become gradually less in courage; to become despondent.

-) Synonym: to quail.

The shout, so suddenly and generally raised, was heard beyond the ring of sentinels who guarded the pavilion of Council, and spread among the soldiers of the host, who, inactive and dispirited by disease and climate, had begun, like their leaders, to droop in resolution.

W. Scott… The Talisman… 1825

-) Transitively: to let (face, the eyes, etc.) droop; to cause to decline or hang; to bend; turn towards the ground.

…. I drooped my head on the shoulder of my dear aunt.

G. Mason… The widow's choice… 1823

Aza paused, and sighed as she drooped her head upon her bosom; yet the pause was but that of a minute.

A. Bray… The Talba… 1830

The secretary drooped his head with an expression of perfect acquiescence in anything that had been said or might be.

Dickens… Barnaby… 1841

"Stand here and look me in the face: if you lie, I can tell it—you can't and shan't deceive me." He lifted her, by a sweep of his strong arm, on to the top of the newly-sodded grave. Thus, standing somewhat on a level, he was face to face with her; and that she might not droop hers, he grasped the shawl beneath her chin.

E. Meteyard… Mainstone’s Housekeeper… 1869

Fleur drooped her eyelids; turned a little pale, and bit her lips.

Galsworthy… The Forsyte Saga… 1922

-) English words derived from “droop”: drooper, drooping, droopingly, droopingness.

 

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/dupe-meaning

/dupe-meaning-etymology

-) Noun.

-) Pronunciation: djuːp.

-) Etymology: from French dupe “deluded person”.

-) Documented since 1600.

-) Meaning: a person who has easily been deceived or is easily deceived.

-) Translation: dupe, in French; incauto, in Spanish; babbeo, in Italian.

-) Synonyms: gull, simpleton, fool.

Sometimes the dupes would come back the following day, and demand the return of their money, as they had ascertained that the goods for which they had parted with it were worthless,

G. Reynolds… The mysteries of London… 1844 

What a dupe he had been! what a shallow, miserable fool! for he had believed as firmly in Margaret Wilmot's truth, as he had believed in the blue sky above his head.

Braddon… Henry Dunbar… 1864

-) With the preposition “of” + noun of the deceiver:

My charming friend, understand your own interests, and do not be the dupe of those fine phrases that we are obliged to employ to deceive others.

Edgeworth… Leonora… 1806

I am not so vain as to be the dupe of such a trick.

The Repository of arts… 1809

Perhaps you think that I am fool enough to be the dupe of your miserable and flimsy artifice,  Cecilia?

G. Reynolds… The mysteries of London… 1844 

The more I think of this, the stronger becomes my conviction that I have not been the dupe of a heartless or mercenary woman.

Braddon… Henry Dunbar… 1864

-) With the preposition “to” + noun of what is employed to deceive:

… from a milkiness of disposition, without the direction of prudence, […] he suffered himself to become a dupe to the artifices of some designing men.

Mackenzie… Julia… 1777

I became a dupe to his deceit.

Smollett… The Adventures… 1829

At least, all we know of his character inclines us rather to believe that Napier was a dupe to his own imagination, than that he desired to impose upon the opposite party…

Scott… Essay on Border Antiquities… 1834

-) Words derived from “dupe”: dupedom, dupism, duper, dupery, dupable, dupability, dupe (v).

 

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/INDEX/

ABRASION ***ABRASIVE *** ABUT *** ACCEDE *** ACCOMPLISH *** ACQUAINTED *** ADMITTEDLY *** ADVENTITIOUS ***AFFAIR *** ANORGASMIA *** ANORGASMIC *** APPLIANCE *** ATTIRE*** BANDY (verb) *** BANTER *** BED** BETIMES *** BEGUILE *** BEHOVE (BEHOOVE) *** BESET *** BESTRIDE *** BETRAY *** BLAME *** BLEND *** BLUNDER *** BOLD  *** BOUND *** BRAG *** BRIBE *** BRISK *** BRISK (verb)*** BROWBEAT *** BULLY *** CARELESS *** CAUTION (verb)*** CELEBRATE *** CHARY *** CHERISH *** CHIP *** CHUCKLE (verb) *** CLAMBER *** CLAP *** CLASS *** CLING (verb) *** COITAL *** COLLAPSE *** COMPROMISE *** COLLUDE *** CONGENIAL *** CONSULTEE *** CORRESPOND *** CRAM *** CRAVE *** CRAVEN *** CRUISE *** CUDDLE ***  CUNNILINGUE (verb) *** CURSORY *** CURTSY *** DAUNT *** DECIDE *** DEEM *** DEFLECT *** DELUDE *** DEMUR *** DEMURE *** DEPOSE *** DESCRY *** DESERVE *** DESIST *** DESULTORY *** DETAIL *** DETER *** DETRIMENT *** DIM *** DINT *** DIP *** DISABUSE *** DISCLAIM *** DISPORT *** DISPROVE *** DISPUTE *** DISROBE *** DISSAVE *** DISSEMBLE *** DRIVEL *** DRONE *** DROOP *** DULL *** DUPE *** EASE *** ELATE *** ELOPE *** ENCROACH *** ENHANCE *** ENJOIN *** ENLARGE *** ENSNARE *** ENSURE *** ENTICE *** ESCALADE *** ESCHEW *** EXCELLENCY *** EXPANSION *** EXTOL *** EXTORT *** FELLATE *** FELLATOR *** FELLATRIX *** FILCH *** FINGER *** FLABBY *** FLAG *** FLAUNT *** FLINCH *** FLIT *** FLURRY *** FOIBLE *** FORFEIT *** FORGO *** FREAK *** FUSS *** GADGET *** GAPE *** GARRULOUS *** GAZE *** GLOSS *** GRATUITOUS *** GRIM *** GROVEL *** GRUDGE*** GUSH *** HARASS *** HESITATE *** HOARD (verb) *** HURRY *** IMBUE ***IMMERSE ***INDEMNIFY ***INDICATIVE *** INDIVERTIBLE *** INFERRIBLE *** INTROVERT (verb) *** INTRUDE *** ITERATION ***JOLT (verb) *** KNACK *** LAG (verb) *** LEAVE (noun) *** LEISURE *** LOAF (verb) *** LOOM *** LULL **** MANNER ***MASTURBATE ***MASTURBATION *** MINCE *** MISATTRIBUTION *** MISBECOME *** MISBEHAVE *** MISRECKON *** MISTIME*** MISTRUST (verb) *** MISWRITE *** MOOD *** MOULT **** MOPE*** NIGGARD *** NIGGARDLY *** NORM ***NOSEY ***NOSH *** NOVELIZE ***OBSCENE*** OFFEND*** OLFACTION ***ORGASM (verb)*** OTHERWISE *** OUTLOOK *** OUTNUMBER *** OVEREAT *** OVERSLEEP *** OVERSTAY *** OWN *** PARDON *** PARRY *** PEER *** PERCOLATE *** PERT *** PIQUE *** POMP** PORNOGRAPHY *** PRAISE (verb) *** PREPARATORY *** PROSE (verb)*** PRY (verb) *** PUNY *** PURSUANTLY *** QUAIL *** QUELL *** QUIESCE *** QUIZ *** RAMBLE ***RANKLE *** RAPACIOUS *** RASH *** RAVE *** REBUFF (verb) *** RECLAIM *** REINSPECT *** RELAPSE (verb) *** RELENT *** REMISS *** REMITTANCE *** REQUITE *** RESEARCH *** RESPITE *** RESTORE  *** ROMP *** ROOF (verb) *** ROTE *** SCAMP *** SCAN *** SCORN (verb) *** SCOWL *** SCROLL ** SCRUB *** SEMANTICIZE  *** SHABBY *** SHY *** SLIGHT (verb) *** SEXILY ***SEXINESS*** SLURP *** SLUT *** SMART *** SNOOP *** SOPPY *** SPILL *** SPRAWL *** SPRINKLE *** SQUAT *** STAGER *** STINT *** STOOP *** STYLE (v.) *** SUBVERSIVE *** SULK *** TALLY *** TARRY *** TEACHABLE *** TEMPORIZE *** TENDER *** THRIVE *** TOTTER *** TRANSLOCATE *** TREND *** TUTOR ***UNACCEPTANCE *** UNACQUAINTED ***UNACQUIRED*** UNARTFUL ***UNDECEIVE*** UNDECEIVER *** UNDERGO *** UNDERRATE *** UNDERSTATE *** UPBRAID *** VANQUISH *** VAPID *** YELL *** WANTEDNESS*** WEAN *** WEATHER-BOUND *** WEEDERY *** WINCE ***