Accomplishable
(Ac*com"plish*a*ble) a. Capable of being accomplished; practicable. Carlyle.
Accomplished
(Ac*com"plished) a.
1. Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact.
2. Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; — commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished
scholar, an accomplished villain.
They . . . show themselves accomplished bees.
Holland.
Daughter of God and man, accomplished Eve.
Milton.
Accomplisher
(Ac*com"plish*er) n. One who accomplishes.
Accomplishment
(Ac*com"plish*ment) n. [F. accomplissement, fr. accomplir.]
1. The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an
enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.
2. That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes
excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training. "My new accomplishment
of dancing." Churchill. "Accomplishments befitting a station." Thackeray.
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place,
And wisdom falls before exterior grace.
Cowper.
Accompt
(Ac*compt") n. See Account.
Accompt, accomptant, etc., are archaic forms.
Accomptable
(Ac*compt"a*ble) a. See Accountable.
Accomptant
(Ac*compt"ant) n. See Accountant.
Accord
(Ac*cord") n. [OE. acord, accord, OF. acort, acorde, F. accord, fr. OF. acorder, F. accorder.
See Accord, v. t.]
1. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
A mediator of an accord and peace between them.
Bacon.
These all continued with one accord in prayer.
Acts i. 14.
2. Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.
Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
Sir J. Davies.
3. Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
4. Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; — preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.
Lev. xxv. 5.
Of his own accord he went unto you.
2 Cor. vii. 17.
5. (Law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated,
and which, when executed, bars a suit. Blackstone.
