Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting in or due to accession; giving increase or enlargement; additional.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Pertaining to accession; additional.
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- adjective rare Pertaining to
accession ;additional - Sir T. Browne
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- adjective of or constituting an accession
Etymologies
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Examples
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Wallace, Derham, and a number of German statistic, and physico-theological writers had taken the same ground, namely, that population increases in a geometrical, but the accessional nutriment only in arithmetical ratio -- and that vice and misery, the natural consequences of this order of things, were intended by providence as the counterpoise.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811
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Professor Wallace, Derham, and a number of German statistic and physico-theological writers had taken the same ground, namely, that population increases in a geometrical, but the accessional nutriment only in arithmetical ratio -- and that vice and misery, the natural consequences of this order of things, were intended by providence as the counterpoise.
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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The powers or virtues of the soul, or rather of the ex - celling and transcendent half, that is, of the mind properly so called, though not a few, stand redu - cible to these two kinds, those that are inbred or innate, and known by the name of involuntary; and those out of which it derives an accessional lustre of merit, and these are called voluntary or acquired.
Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion 1812
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Over and above continuing and promoting those advantages which it formerly re - ceived from the hand of him who dressed it, would it not befriend and guard its accessional senses, appetites, and members too, supposing it had any?
Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion 1812
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Professor Wallace, Derham, and a number of German statistic, and physico-theological writers had taken the same ground, namely, that population increases in a geometrical, but the accessional nutriment only in arithmetical ratio ” and that vice and misery, the natural consequences of this order of things, were intended by providence as the counterpoise.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847
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