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accinge

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English

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WOTD – 21 June 2007

Etymology

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FromLatinaccingō(“to gird”).

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /ækˈsɪnd͡ʒ/
Audio(US): (file)
Rhymes:-ɪndʒ

Verb

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accinge (third-person singular simple presentaccinges,present participleaccinging,simple past and past participleaccinged)

(reflexive, archaic) Toprepare oneself for action.
- 1657, Joannes Renodæus[i.e., Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, “Of Wine”, inA Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: […], London: […] Jo[hn] Streater and Ja[mes] Cottrel,page219:
  Æſchylus alſo neveraccinged himſelf to write Tragedies, unleſs he had firſt imbibed himſelf with Wine.
- 1829, Thomas Love Peacock,The Misfortunes of Elphin,
  "Friend Seithenyn," said the abbot, when, having passed the castle gates, and solicited an audience, he was proceeding to the presence of Melvas, "this task, to which I haveaccinged myself is arduous, and in some degree awful;
- 1831, Thomas Love Peacock,Crotchet Castle,
  Heaccinged himself to the task with his usual heroism, and having finished it to his entire satisfaction, reminded his host to order in the devil.
- 1855, James John Garth Wilkinson,War, Cholera, and the Ministry of Health, p. 58
  [...]but we must nowaccinge ourselves to other less agreeable considerations.
- 1898, Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch,The Astonishing History of Troy Town,
  Peter, instead of adjuring Miss Limpenny to fear no more the heat o' the sun,accinged himself to the practical difficulty.
- 1943, Sir Arthur Thomas,Cambridge Lectures, J.M. Dent; E.P. Dutton, page 241,
  when those doors had been re-opened as sluíces to admit the mud and garbage of Restoration drama, the old man gallantlyaccinged himself to his old task and wroteSamson Agonistes'.
- 1973, Leo Simpson,The Peacock Papers: A Novel‎^[1], page94:
  "I amaccinging myself to a meeting with the enemy leader, Dr. Harrison Royce, among others — to discuss peace, perhaps, although my own feeling is that the dinner will be used by both sides in the traditional fashion,..."