Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In English and other colleges, a certificate or prize awarded to a student of second (or lower) merit: as, second accessit, third, fourth, etc., accessit.
- n. In the election of a pope, an opportunity given the members of the conclave, after each ballot, to revise their votes.
Wiktionary
- n. An honorable mention in an academic contest.
- n. A vote in the election of a pope.
Etymologies
- From Latin accessit ("he came near"), from accēdō ("approach"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Ego anno superiore, quendam guttosum vidi adustum, qui ut liberaretur de gutta, ad balnea accessit, et de gutta liberatus, maniacus factus est.”
“Note 31: Salimbene de Adam Chronica, ed.O. Holder-Egger, MGH SS 32.30: "Eodem anno, scilicet MCCXII, trium puerorum quasi duodennium, qui se visionem vidisse dicebant, crucis signaculum assumentium in partibus Colonie persuasu multitudo innumera pauperum utriusque sexus et puerorum de Theotonia peregrinantium in Ytalia crucesignatorum accessit, unanimi corde et una voce dicentium se per siccum maria transituros et terram sanctam Ierusalem in Dei potentia recuperaturos; sed demum quasi evanuit universa." back”
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
“His various and exotic knowledge, complete although unready sympathies, and fine, full, discriminative flow of language, fit him out to be the best of talkers; so perhaps he is with some, not quite with me — proxime accessit, I should say.”
“Sed congregando omnia agmina sua, et de morte eripiendo ea, collocauit circa se: et sic primes attigit, et ordinatim proficiscens ad exercitus suos accessit.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Vltimo die mensis Octobris, episcopus Wintoniensis accessit ad concilium Constanciense, peregrinaturus Hierosolymam post electionem summi pontificis celebratam, vbi tantum valuit eius facunda persuasio, vt et excitaret dominos Cardinales ad concordiam, et ad electionem summi pontificis se ocy鵶 pr鎝ararent.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Fuit autem quando vidit Iahacob Rachel filiam Laban fratris matris suae, et pecudes Laban fratris matris suae, accessit Iahacob, et revolvit lapidem ab ore putei, et potum dedit pecudibus Laban fratris matris suae.”
“Et accessit ad eum Jehudah, et dixit, Quaeso, domine mi: loquatur quaeso servus tuus verbum in auribus domini mei, et ne irascatur furor tuus in servum tuum: quia tu sicut Pharao.”
“Et accessit Abraham, et dixit, Numquid etiam disperdes justum cum impio?”
“ECCLESIASTICÆ post Baronium ad 1572, accessit Tomus Posthumus et Ultimus,”
“Manus extrema non accessit operibus ejus; præclare inchoata multa, perfecta non plane.”
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jmjarmstrong JM offers all the losers an accessit Aug 18, 2010