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A — Abuttal to Acerbity (Part 3 of 8)

Accessary, a. Accessory, assisting, aiding, abetting, helping, subsidiary, ancillary, auxiliary, additional, additive, supplemental, supplementary, subordinate, of detail, of minor importance, concerning minutiæ.

Accessary, n.

    1. Confederate, accomplice, abettor, accessory, assistant, helper, coadjutor, associate (in a crime), particeps criminis, socius criminis.
    2. Accessory, detail, minor particular, minor part, subordinate element, subsidiary, accompaniment, attendant, concomitant, supporting member, minutia.

Accession, n.

    1. Addition, increase, enlargement, augmentation, extension.
    2. Coming into power (as a new dynasty).

Accessory, a. Same as Accessary.

Accessory, n.

    1. Confederate. See accessary.
    2. Accompaniment, attendant, concomitant. See accessary, 2.

Accidence, n. Inflection, grammatical variation, variation of stems, application of case-endings and conjugation-endings, inflectional etymology, changes undergone by lingual roots.

Accident, n.

    1. Casualty, chance, fortuity, mischance, misadventure, calamity, mishap, miscarriage, misfortune, hap, hazard, contingency, unforeseen or fortuitous event. See contretemps.
    2. Property, quality, modification, affection, mode, condition, state, change, alteration, attribute, contingent attribute, modalization.

Accidental, a.

    1. Casual, fortuitous, contingent, that happens by chance, not designed, not planned, unintended, chance, undesigned, not purposed.
    2. Incidental, adventitious, non-essential, immaterial, dispensable, not absolutely requisite, de facto but not de jure, that has merely happened to be.

Accidentalness, n. Accidentality, contingency, fortuity, fortuitousness, etc. See accidental.