Accredit: Definition and part of speech

Accredit

  1. v. t. To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one.
  2. v. t. To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
  3. v. t. To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
  4. v. t. To believe; to credit; to put trust in.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Accrementition: Definition and part of speech

Accrementition

  1. n. The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Accrete: Definition and part of speech

Accrete

  1. a. Grown together.
  2. v. i. To grow together.
  3. v. i. To adhere; to grow (to); to be added; — with to.
  4. v. t. To make adhere; to add.
  5. a. Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Accretion: Definition and part of speech

Accretion

  1. n. Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share.
  2. n. The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
  3. n. The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.
  4. n. Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.
  5. n. A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes.
  6. n. The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.