Accidentalism

( Paint.) The effects produced accidentally by rays of light. (See ACCIDENTALS.) Accidentally, adv. In an accidental manner; non e entially. Accept'ant, n. One who accepts; an acceptor. Accept a'tion, and Accept i on, n. The act of accept- Accidentalne , n. Quality of being accidental. ing; the accepted meaning of a word. - Accept i on is Accidentals, n . pl. (Paint.) Those fortuitous or obsolete. "My words, in common acceptation, Could never give this provocation."-Gray. Accept'er, n. One who accepts. Acceptila'tion, n. [Lat. acceptilatio. ( Law .) The verbal extinction of a verbal contract, with a declaration that the debt has been paid when it has not, or the ac- ceptance of something merely imaginary in satisfaction of a verbal contract. Acceptor, or Accept'er, the person upon whom a bill of exchange is drawn; he is called a drawee before, and acceptor after acceptance; he is the first and principal party liable to pay the amount of the bill, for hardly anything but payment or release will discharge him.