acceleratory

[ACCELERATE.] Асcelerating, as adapted to accelerate motion. *ăc-çend', v.t. [Lat. accendo = to set on fire.] [CANDID, CANDLE, KINDLE.] 1. To burn up, to burn. "Our devotion, if sufficiently accended , would, as theirs, burn up innumerable books of this sort."- Dr . H. More: Decay of Christian Piety. 2. To light up. "While the dark world the sun's bright beams accend." Harvey: Owen's Epigrams (1677). * ăc-çěnd-ěd, pa. par . & a. [ACCEND.] ăc-çěnd-ent-ēs, s. pl . [Lat, accendentes , pl. of accendens, pr. par. of accendo to set on fire.] Eccles. An order of petty ecclesiastical functionaries in the Church of Rome, whose office is to light, snuff, and trim the tapers. They are not very different from the acolytes. [ACCENSORES.]