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[ACCOMPANY.] IMG:content-0083.png:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0084.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To a ociate, to keep company (followed by with ). "No man, in effect, doth accompany with others, but he learneth, ere he is aware, some gesture, voice, or fashion."-Bacon: Nat. Hist. † 2. To cohabit (followed by with ). loved her and accompanied with her only, till he married Elfrida." Milton : Hist. Eng ., bk. v. 3. Music: To execute the accompaniment when a piece of music is sung or played. ạc-com-pa-ny-ing, pr . par . & a. [Accom PANY.] "... site of his temple, with its rich accompanying solemnities."-Grote: Hist. of Greece , vol. i., pt. i., ch. 1. ạc-com-păn-y-ist, s. [Eng. accompany ; -ist .] The same as ACCOMPANIST (Q.V.). ạc-complice, s . [(1) Lat. ad = to; (2) Fr. & Ital. complice , adj. privy, acce ory; s .= an accomplice, from Lat, complico = to fold together: con = together, and plico = to fold.] 1. Orig.: One a ociated with another in doing any action which might be good as well as bad. "Succe unto our valiant general, And happine to his accomplicest Shakesp. 1 Henry VI., V. 2. It might be used also of things. 2. Now : Never used in a good sense, but only for one who is a ociated with another in the perpetration of a crime or other misdeed. IMG:content-0085.png:[blocks in formation] * ạc-com-plíse, u.t [ACCOMPLISH.] To accomplish. "And Tullius sayth that grete thinges be not accom plished by str eng the, ne by deliverne e of body." Chaucer: Tale of Melibaus. ạc-com-plice-ship, s . [ACCOMPLICE, S.] The state of being an accomplice. ( E. Taylor .) ac-com-pliç'-i-ty, s. [COMPLICITY.] Complicity.