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acˈcession|ækˈsɛʃən|
[a. Fr. accession (14th c. in Godef.), ad. L. accēssiōn-em a going to, joining, increase, n. of action f. accēdĕre, accēssum: see accede v. It has partly occupied the ground of the earlier access.]
Generally, the action of going to, joining oneself to, and its result. Hence,
I. A coming to.
1. The action of coming near, approach; a coming into the presence of any one, or into contact with any thing; admittance, admission; = access 1.
1652Gaule Mag-astro-mancer 160 The rationall creatures are the more noble in themselves, and of more neer accession to the divine similitude. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. 100 There is moreover granted leave of accession unto him. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. 19 Now there may be many things in Nature unto which we can have neither of these accessions of Sense. 1691Ray Creation (1714) 198 For want of Accession of the Sun. 1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 395 Two of the oxides of lead may be formed by heat, with accession of air. 1853Kane Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxv. 312 It might be supposed..that the accession of solar light would be accompanied by increase of temperature.
†2. The action of coming to (a point) by forward or onward motion; advance, coming, arrival. Obs.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 57 Not varying at all by the accession of bodyes upon, or secession thereof, from its surface. 1655–60T. Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 9/2 He first found out the accession of the Sun from Tropick to Tropick. 1656tr. Hobbes, Elem. Philos. (1839) 471 Now this expansion of the air upon the superficies of the earth, from east to west, doth, by reason of the sun's perpetual accession to the places which are successively under it, make it cold at the time of the sun's rising and setting.
3. The act of coming or attaining to a dignity, office, or position of honour, esp. the throne.
1769Burke State of Nation Wks. II. 15 That the only good minister..since his Majesty's accession, is the Earl of Bute. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. I. iv. 232 Hugh, on his accession to manhood, did homage to the King.
II. A coming to as an addition.
4. The act of coming to so as to join, or of joining oneself to; joining, addition.
1633T. Adams Comm. 2 Pet. i. 6 (1865) 79 Necessary therefore is the accession of piety to patience. 1675Barclay Apol. for Quakers xiv. §4. 498 The Church can be no ways bettered by the Accession of Hypocrites. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. I. v. 356 England had gained greatly by the accession of the valiant Thurkhill.
5. The act of acceding or agreeing to an opinion, plan, or proceeding; adherence, assent.
1603–5Sir J. Melvil Mem. (1735) 130 The King repented himself of his Accession to that affair. 1794S. Williams Hist. Vermont 283 Declaring their acquiessence in, and accession to the determination made by Congress. 1828Scott F.M. Perth II. 251 The Prince had no accession to this second aggression upon the citizens of Perth.
b. Deed of Accession, in Scotch Law, a deed by the creditors of a bankrupt, by which they accede to a trust executed by their debtor for the general behoof, and bind themselves to concur in the arrangement.
6. a. That which adds itself, or is added to anything; that whereby it is increased; addition, augmentation, increase. Applied also to persons.
1588Lambarde Eirenarcha i. ix. 47 The forme of this Commission hath varied with the time, and received sundrie accessions. 1592W. West Symbolæogr. B iiij. 37 A, Accessions..to contracts be these things which be required beside the principall things themselves. 1692Washington tr. Milton, Def. Pop. (1851) v. 139 And Egypt became an Accession to the kingdom of Ethiopia. 1778Johnson in Boswell III. 159 Mr. Banks desires to be admitted [to the club]; he will be a very honourable accession. 1798Wellesley Desp. 25 He has not yet obtained any formidable accession of strength from his alliance with France. 1838Hallam Hist. Lit. I. Pref. 10 This volume..is a very convenient accession to any scholar's library. 1855Prescott Philip II, I. iv. ii. 409 Every year the fraternity received fresh accessions of princes and nobles.
b. attrib.; accession(s book, a book in which are entered the accessions to a library: so accessions list; accession number, accession stamp. Hence acˈcession v. trans., to enter in the accessions register of a library (orig. U.S.); so acˈcessioning vbl. n.
1876W. F. Poole in Publ. Libr. U.S. i. 489 The books must then be entered in the ‘accession catalogue’. Ibid., Every work entered has its accession number. 1877Library Jrnl. May 316/1 The accession-book properly kept up is the librarian's official indicator for his whole collection. 1882L.P. Access. Lists (Bodl.) b. 5 Accessions-List 3 Chief older works. 1892G. M. Jones Salem (Mass.) Public Library Rep. 9 The new books have been promptly accessioned. 1896Library Jrnl. Dec. 129/2 Accessioning, classifying, and cataloguing. 1900Library 1 Mar. 153 The Mitchell Library. Rough Accessions Book. Ibid. 154 The books are stamped with an ‘accession stamp’ on the back of the title-page. 1920W. C. B. Sayers Brown's Man. Libr. Econ. xxxv. 479 Accessioning is done the ordinary way. 1928Armstrong Coll. Rep. 1927–8 73, 5,000 volumes and 3,050 pamphlets have been classified and accessioned but not fully catalogued. 1961T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship (ed. 2) 2/1 The accession number also serves to link the book with the catalogue (or shelf register) and the charging system, and distinguishes between copies of a book when there is more than one.
7. Law. Addition to property by natural growth or artificial improvement; which becomes the property of the owner of that which receives the addition, who is said to acquire the proprietorship thereof by Accession.
1768Blackstone Comm. II. 404 The doctrine of property arising from accession is also grounded on the right of occupancy. 1832J. Austin Jurispr. (1879) II. liv. 904 The acquisition of ‘jus in rem’ by accession..as land washed away and joined to one's own land, or the fruits of one's own land. 1847Craig, s.v. Artificial accession is that addition which is the result of human industry, called likewise industrial accession, as trees planted, or a house built on the property of another, which belongs to the proprietor of the ground, and not to the planter or builder.
† III. A coming on or invasion of disease; an attack, fit, or paroxysm; also a visitation, or fit of folly, etc. = access 9. Obs.
1655H. Vaughan Silex Scint. i. 105 Pills that change Thy sick Accessions into setled health. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 162 Some of our family have had very uncommon accessions..[and] sometimes speak as if they were really inspired. 1827Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 54 Those accessions of folly to which men are sometimes subject. |