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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Consisting in or due to accession; giving increase or enlargement; additional.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. rare Pertaining to accession; additional - Sir T. Browne

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. rare Pertaining to accession; additional.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of or constituting an accession

Etymologies

  1. accession +‎ -al (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “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

  • “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.

  • “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.”

    Internet Archive: Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion

  • “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?”

    Internet Archive: Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion

  • “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

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