accinge

English

WOTD – 21 June 2007

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin accingō (“to gird”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ækˈsɪndʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

Verb

accinge (third-person singular simple present accing, present participle ing, simple past and past participle accinged)

1. (reflexive, archaic) To prepare oneself for action.
   • 1829, Thomas Love Peacock, The Misfortunes of Elphin,

     "Friend Seithenyn," said the abbot, when, having passed the castle gates, and solicited an audience, he was proceeding to the presence of Melvas, "this task, to which I have accinged myself is arduous, and in some degree awful;

   • 1831, Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle,

     He accinged himself to the task with his usual heroism, and having finished it to his entire satisfaction, reminded his host to order in the devil.

   • 1855, James John Garth Wilkinson, War, Cholera, and the Ministry of Health, p. 58

     [...]but we must now accinge ourselves to other less agreeable considerations.

   • 1898, Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, The Astonishing History of Troy Town,

     Peter, instead of adjuring Miss Limpenny to fear no more the heat o' the sun, accinged himself to the practical difficulty.

   • 1943, Sir Arthur Thomas, Cambridge Lectures, J.M. Dent; E.P. Dutton, page 241,

     when those doors had been re-opened as sluíces to admit the mud and garbage of Restoration drama, the old man gallantly accinged himself to his old task and wrote Samson Agonistes'.

   • 1973, Leo Simpson, The Peacock Papers: A Novel‎^[1], page 94:

     "I am accinging myself to a meeting with the enemy leader, Dr. Harrison Royce, among others — to discuss peace, perhaps, although my own feeling is that the dinner will be used by both sides in the traditional fashion,..."

Translations

to prepare oneself for action

• Kurdish: xwe amade kirin
• Portuguese: preparar-se
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: подгото́виться (ru) (podgotóvitʹsja), собраться (с силами) (sobratsya s silami)

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Italian

Verb

accinge

1. third-person singular present indicative of accingere

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) accinge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of accingō