accite

t. [Lat. accitum, supine of accio =to summon: ad =to; cieo to put in motion, to excite.] [CITE.] 1. To incite, to impel, to induce. "Every man would think me a hypocrite indeed. And what accites your most worshipful thought to think so?"-Shakesp.: King Henry IV., Part II . , ii. 2 2. To cite, to summon. "Our coronation done, we will accite (As I before remember'd) all our state." Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Part II ., v. 2 ăc-clā'im ( Eng . ), ăc-clāme (Scotch), v.t. [In Sp. aclamar ; Ital. acclamare ; fr. Lat. acclamo to cry, or shout to: ad to; clamo =to shout: Welsh llevain; Irish liumham .] [CLAIM, CLAMOUR.] † 1. To applaud, to proclaim applaudingly. ( Eng .) " while the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors." 2. To claim. (Scotch.) Smollett : Regicide , v. 8. contraire to the perpetuall custome, and 1814, p. 282 never acclamed before.' -Acts Chas. 1., ed. ăc-clā'im, s. [From the substantive.] Poet . and Rhet . Acclamation. "As s echoing ba back, with shrill acclaim , And chorus wild, the chieftain's na name." Scott: Lady of the Lake, 11. 21. ăc-claimed, pa . par . & a. [ACCLAIM, v.t.] ăc-clāi'm-ing, pr . par . & a. [ACCLAIM, v.t.] "Attended by a glad, acclaiming train ." Thomson: Castle of Indolence, ii. 74. ăc-clā'-māte, v.t. [Lat. acclamatum , supine of acclamo.] To applaud. "This made them acclamated to no mean degree."Water house: Apology for Learning (1653), p. 120. ǎo-clam-a-ted, pa . par . & a. [ACCLAMATE.] ăc-clam-ā-ting, pr . par . [ACCLAMATE.] ắc-clam-ā-tion, s. [In Fr. acclamation ; Ital. acc lam azione , from Lat. acclamatio = a calling to, a shout from acclamo ; ad = to; clamo to call out or shout. The Roman ac clamatio (acclamation) differed from plausus (applause) in this respect, that the former, as its etymology ( clamo = to call out) suggests, meant applause uttered with the voice; whilst plausus , from plaudo = to strike, clap, or beat, meant clapping of hands.] I. Approbation of a person or thing expre ed by clapping of hands. Used (1) when the applause is given simply to expre feeling. "The inhabitants of the town crowded the main street, and greeted him with loud acclamations."Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xvi. Or (2) when it is designed formally to carry a motion. "When they [the Saxons] consented to anything, it was rather in the way of acclamation than by the exercise of a deliberative voice or a regular a ent or negative."-Bush: Abridgment of Eng . Hist ., ii. 7. Among Antiquaries: Acclamation Medals are medals which represent the people as in the act of expre ing acclamation. II. Rhet . A figure of speech used by rhetoricians, and called by the Greeks, and after them by the Romans, epiphonema .