English English Dictionary

Additional.

Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.

of Accessory

In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary.

The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.

Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.

That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.

Same as Accessary, n.

Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.

A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.

The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.

The rudiments of any subject.

Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.

A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.

A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.

A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.

Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.

Unusual appearance or effect.

A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.