Part 79

<hw>Ac*ces"sa*ri*ly</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In the manner of an accessary.</def>

<h1>Accessariness</h1> <Xpage=11>

<hw>Ac*ces"sa*ri*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being accessary.</def>

<h1>Accessary</h1> <Xpage=11>

<hw>Ac*ces"sa*ry</hw> <tt>(#; 277)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See <er>Accessory</er>.</def>

<blockquote>To both their deaths thou shalt be <b>accessary</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Amongst many secondary and <b>accessary</b> causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Accessary</h1> <Xpage=11>

<hw>Ac*ces"sa*ry</hw> <tt>(277)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Accessaries</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[Cf. <er>Accessory</er> and LL. <ets>accessarius</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense.</def>

<cs><col>Accessary before the fact</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>one who commands or counsels an offense, not being present at its commission.</cd> -- <col>Accessary after the fact</col>, <cd>one who, after an offense, assists or shelters the offender, not being present at the commission of the offense.</cd></cs>

<note>&hand; This word, as used in law, is spelt <i>accessory</i> by Blackstone and many others; but in this sense is spelt <i>accessary</i> by Bouvier, Burrill, Burns, Whishaw, Dane, and the Penny Cyclopedia; while in other senses it is spelt <i>accessory</i>. In recent text-books on criminal law the distinction is not preserved, the spelling being either <i>accessary</i> or <i>accessory</i>.</note>

<h1>Accessibility</h1> <Xpage=11>

<hw>Ac*cess`i*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>accessibilitas</ets>: cf. F. <ets>accessibilit\'82</ets>.]</ety> <def>The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility.</def>

<i>Langhorne.</i>

<h1>Accessible</h1> <Xpage=11>

<hw>Ac*cess"i*ble</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>accessibilis</ets>, fr. <ets>accedere</ets>: cf. F. <ets>accessible</ets>. See <er>Accede</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Easy of access or approach; approachable; <as>as, an <ex>accessible</ex> town or mountain, an <ex>accessible</ex> person</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Open to the influence of; -- with <i>to</i>.</def> "Minds <i>accessible</i> to reason."

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Obtainable; to be got at.</def>

<blockquote>The best information . . . at present <b>accessible</b>. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Accessibly</h1> <Xpage=11>

<hw>Ac*cess"i*bly</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an accessible manner.</def>

<h1>Accession</h1> <Xpage=11>

<hw>Ac*ces"sion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>accessio</ets>, fr. <ets>accedere</ets>: cf. F. <ets>accession</ets>. See <er>Accede</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; <as>as, a king's <ex>accession</ex> to a confederacy</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; <as>as, an <ex>accession</ex> of wealth or territory</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The only <b>accession</b> which the Roman empire received was the province of Britain. <i>Gibbon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.</def>

<i>Kent.</i>