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[ACCUMULATE, ข.1 Accumulating, ama ing, relating to accumulation, having a tendency to accumulate. "The activity of thought and vivacity of the accu mulative memory."-Cole ridge: Table Talk . "When a variation is of the slightest use to a being, we cannot tell how much of it to attribute to the accumulatire action of natural selection"-Darwin: Orig. of Species , ch. v., p. 133. Law : An Accumulative Judgment is one in which two punishments are prescribed to a criminal for two distinct breaches of the law, the second penalty to commence when the first expires. Accumulative Treason is the addition to each other of several acts which, though singly falling short of treason, yet collectively amount to that serious crime. An Accumulative Legacy is the term used when more legacies than one are given by succe ive wills emanating from the same testator, or by succe ive codicils to the same will. *ạc-cum-ul-ā-tive-ly, adv . [ACCUMULATIVE.) In an accumulative manner; in literal heaps, or in what may be figuratively considered as heaps. 'Heart is put here accumulatively, as that whose cleanne must be added to the purity of conversation to compleat it."- Allestre : Sermons , ii. 20.