Accession

Word ACCESSION
Character 9
Hyphenation ac ces sion
Pronunciations /æk.ˈsɛ.ʃən/

Definitions and meanings of "Accession"

What do we mean by accession?

The attainment of a dignity or rank. noun

Something that has been acquired or added; an acquisition. noun

An increase by means of something added. noun

The addition to or increase in value of property by means of improvements or natural growth. noun

The right of a proprietor to ownership of such addition or increase. noun

Agreement or assent. noun

Access; admittance. noun

A sudden outburst. noun

To record in the order of acquisition. transitive verb

To enter in the accession-book of a library. See accession-book.

A coming, as into the possession of a right or station; attainment; entrance; induction: as, the accession of the people to political power, or to the ballot; accession to an estate, or to the throne. noun

The act of acceding, as by assent or agreement; consent; junction; adhesion: as, accession to a demand or proposal; their accession to the party or confederacy was a great gain. noun

Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation; addition: as, an accession of wealth, territory, or numbers. noun

In law, a mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth or by the application of labor has a right to the thing added or to the improvement, as an addition to a house made by a tenant under an ordinary lease. noun

In medicine, the attack, approach, or commencement of a disease; access. noun

In the election of a pope, the transference of votes from one candidate to another, when the scrutiny has not resulted in a choice. The opportunity of doing this is called an accessit (which see). noun

Increase, addition, increment, extension, augmentation. noun

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined. noun

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined

Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.

A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).

The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.

The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.

The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.

Agreement.

Access; admittance.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Accession

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The word "accession" in example sentences

The prospect of Jang's accession is a less than comforting thought. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Brussels needs to accept that EU accession is no longer the galvanizing reform force in Ukraine. ❋ Fredrik Erixon (2010)

To the Gentiles, some of all nations, that should be converted to Christ, and so added to his church, which, though a spiritual accession, is often in prophecy represented by a local motion. ❋ Unknown (1721)

They derived some accession from a body of two thousand strangers, under the command of John Justiniani, a noble Genoese; a liberal donative was advanced to these auxiliaries; and a princely recompense, the Isle of Lemnos, was promised to the valor and victory of their chief. ❋ Unknown (1206)

“Well, but, Mrs. Baliol, suppose we settle our era: you do not call the accession of James the Sixth to the kingdom of Britain very ancient?” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Her accession was a gaudy affair, and well attended, though it might seem strange from our end of time that people would turn out peaceably to see the murderess of S'task take up the spear of royalty. ❋ Diane Duane (2000)

Accepting this as a true account of an eternal, a perdurable Existent — one which never turns to any Kind outside itself, that possesses life complete once for all, that has never received any accession, that is now receiving none and will never receive any — we have, with the statement of a perduring ❋ Plotinus (1952)

The particular question concerning France that was agitating Germany at the time of the accession was the state of affairs in ❋ Stanley Shaw (N/A)

Although his accession was the occasion of friendly letters between himself and the Government of Madras, the Nawab's rejection of the Governor's suggestion that the financial arrangements between himself and the Company should be made more favourable to the ❋ Glyn Barlow (N/A)

The particular question concerning France that was agitating Germany at the time of the accession was the state of affairs in Alsace-Lorraine, and particularly Bismarck's measure requiring French citizens entering the provinces to provide themselves with a pass from the German Ambassador in Paris. ❋ Shaw, Stanley (1913)

The number of each line, called the accession number, is written on the first page after the title-page of the book described on that line. ❋ John Cotton Dana (1892)

He attended Charles I. as a boy, and on his accession was appointed physician to the King and Queen. ❋ Unknown (1888)

His accession was the signal for an entire change in the religious administration of the kingdom. ❋ Unknown (1884)

Although he had met with no resistance on his assumption of the throne, he had the hearty support of but a mere fraction of the English people, and his accession was the work of a few great Whig families, only. ❋ Unknown (1867)

This happens on the first anniversary of her accession, which is also her birthday. ❋ Sutherland Orr (1865)

Louis XIV. at his accession, that is to say, at the death of ❋ Alexandre Dumas P��re (1836)

Louis XIV. at his accession, that is to say, at the death of Cardinal Mazarin, had found this political question roughly sketched out; the solution was difficult for a young man, but as, at that time, the king represented the whole nation, anything that the head resolved upon, the body would be found ready to carry out. ❋ Alexandre Dumas P��re (1836)

Fuele said both Brussels and Ankara were frustrated by the lack of progress in Turkey's EU accession, which is caused in part by opposition from Cyprus as well as by French and German reluctance to admit the largely Muslim state. ❋ Unknown (2011)

If ultimate aim of some Muslims of the Valley of Kashmir is to join Pakistan then that could be called accession and not azadi or freedom. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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