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  • noun Plural form of accessary.

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Examples

  • For example in olden days people used to eating it in thalis or banana leaves in squatting position but now they are using dining table with all its accessaries.

    The sociological concept of westernization in India India 2009

  • But the emperors, and other Christian sovereigns, under whose government these errors and the like encroachments of ecclesiastics upon their office at first crept in, to the disturbance of their possessions and of the tranquillity of their subjects, though they suffered the same for want of foresight of the sequel, and of insight into the designs of their teachers, may nevertheless be esteemed accessaries to their own and the public damage.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Winterborne of course knew in a moment that Grace, whom he had caught the doctor peering at, was represented by these accessaries.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • The accessaries of ancient distinction, to which the Baron, in the pride of his heart, had attached so much importance and veneration, were treated with peculiar contumely.

    Waverley 2004

  • When Susannah told the corporal the misadventure of the sash, with all the circumstances which attended the murder of me, — (as she called it,) — the blood forsook his cheeks, — all accessaries in murder being principals, —

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • When Susannah told the corporal the misadventure of the sash, with all the circumstances which attended the murder of me, — (as she called it,) — the blood forsook his cheeks, — all accessaries in murder being principals, —

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • A gentleman can hardly come from that country, with a servant or two, either to this place or Philadelphia, but what there are persons trying to seduce his servants to leave him; and, when they have done this, the poor wretches are obliged to rob their master in order to obtain a subsistence; all those, therefore, who are concerned in this seduction, are accessaries to the robbery.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Employed with collateral means calculated to shake the nerves and excite the imagination, mesmerism causes the same variety of convulsive and violent seizures which extremes of fanatical frenzy excite; when it is employed in a gentle form and manner, with accessaries that only soothe and tranquillise, the most plain and unpretending form of trance quietly steps upon the scene.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

  • How well all its accessaries, all its decorations, are proportioned and harmonised -- growing lighter as they rise higher.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

  • A gentleman can hardly come from that country, with a servant or two, either to this place or Philadelphia, but what there are persons trying to seduce his servants to leave him; and, when they have done this, the poor wretches are obliged to rob their master in order to obtain a subsistence; all those, therefore, who are concerned in this seduction, are accessaries to the robbery.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

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