accite
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Medieval Latin accitō (“summon”), from Classical Latin acciō (“call forth”), formed from ad + cieō (“summon, call”). The sense “excite, induce” is likely from or reinforced by conflation with excite.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /əkˈsaɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪt
Verb
[edit]accite (third-person singular simple present accites, present participle acciting, simple past and past participle accited) (Early Modern)
- (transitive, obsolete) To summon.
- c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- He by the senate is accit'd home
From weary wars against the barbarous Goths
- 1598, George Chapman, verse translation of Homer's Iliad, Book 11:
- Our heralds now accited all that were
- Endamag'd by the Elians ...
- (transitive, obsolete) To cite, quote.
- (transitive, obsolete) To excite, to induce.
- c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- And what accites your most worshipful thought to think so?
References
[edit]- ^ “accite, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]accīte
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