4. A word; a significant tone; (pl.) expressions in general; speech.
Winds! on your wings to Heaven her accents bear,
Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear.
Dryden.
5. (Pros.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
6. (Mus.) (a) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the
third part of the measure. (b) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
(c) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period. (d) The expressive emphasis
and shading of a passage. J. S. Dwight.
7. (Math.) (a) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes
of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y&prime, y&Prime. (b) (Trigon.)
A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12&prime27&Prime,
i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds. (c) (Engin.) A mark used to denote feet and inches; as,
6&prime 10&Prime is six feet ten inches.
Accent
(Ac*cent") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accented; p. pr. & vb. n. Accenting.] [OF. accenter, F. accentuer.]
1. To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
2. To mark emphatically; to emphasize.
Accentless
(Ac"cent`less) a. Without accent.
Accentor
(Ac*cen"tor) n. [L. ad. + cantor singer, canere to sing.]
1. (Mus.) One who sings the leading part; the director or leader. [Obs.]
2. (Zoöl.) A genus of European birds including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the
water thrushes.
Accentuable
(Ac*cen"tu*a*ble) a. Capable of being accented.
Accentual
(Ac*cen"tu*al) a. Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.
Accentuality
(Ac*cen`tu*al"i*ty) n. The quality of being accentual.
Accentually
(Ac*cen"tu*al*ly) adv. In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.
Accentuate
(Ac*cen"tu*ate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accentuated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Accentuating.] [LL.
accentuatus, p. p. of accentuare, fr. L. accentus: cf. F. accentuer.]
1. To pronounce with an accent or with accents.
2. To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize.
In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated.
London Times.
3. To mark with the written accent.
Accentuation
(Ac*cen`tu*a"tion) n. [LL. accentuatio: cf. F. accentuation.] Act of accentuating; applications
of accent. Specifically (Eccles. Mus.), pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.
Accept
(Ac*cept") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accepted; p. pr. & vb. n. Accepting.] [F. accepter, L. acceptare,
freq. of accipere; ad + capere to take; akin to E. heave.]
