accentuate

t. [In Ger. accentuiren; Fr. accentuer; Sp. acentuar; Ital. accentuare.] [ACCENT.] I. To pronounce with an accent. 1. Lit. To lay stre on a particular syllable of a word in speaking, or on a particular note of music. 2. Fig .: To lay stre upon anything. "In Bosnia the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated ."- Canon Liddon (in Times, Dec. 8. 1876). II. To place a mark over a written or printed word to indicate the accent. ăc-çěnt-u-at-ed, pa. par. & a. [ACCENTU ATE.] ăc-çent-u-āt-ing, pr. par. [ACCENTUATE.] ăc-çent-u-ā-tion, s. [In German & French, accentuation.] 1. The placing of stre on particular syllables in speaking, or on particular notes of music in singing, or playing an instrument. "This in a language like the Greek, with long words, measured syllables, and a great variety of accentuatiom between one syllable and another." Grote: Hist. of Greece, ch. lxvii. 2. The placing an accent over a written or printed word, or over a note of music. "The division, scansion, and accentuation of all the rest of the Psalms in the Bishops' edition."-Lowth: Confutation of Bp . Hare , p. 18. ăc-çěp-çion, s. [ACCEPT I ON.] 1. Reception. the emperour give thereto favorable acceрcion."-Vegecius MS . , Douce , 291, f. 4. ( Hall i well .) 2. Acceptation; meaning in which a word is taken. "There is a second accepcion of the word faith."Saunderson: Sermons (1689), p. 61.