accite

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin accitus, past participle of acciō (“I call forth”), formed from ad + cieō (“summon, call”).

Verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To summon.
   • ca. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act I, sc. 1

     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 ...

2. (transitive, obsolete) To quote.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To excite.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To induce.
   • 1600, William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2:

     And what accites your most worshipful thought to think so?

Anagrams

• acetic

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) accīte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of acciō