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accessary, n. and a.|ˈæksɪsərɪ, ækˈsɛsərɪ|
[f. access n. + -ary, as if ad. L. *accēssāri-us, an analogical formation on accēssus, cf. emissary, commissary, adversary, notary. The n. is etymologically accessary and the adj. accessory, cf. emissary n., promissory adj., but as the adj. was first taken directly from the n. it was naturally spelt accessary. Being afterwards ‘rectified’ by scholars to accessory, after the L. accessōrius, it drew the noun after it, so that this also is now often spelt accessory. In the legal sense the word is commonly accessary (though Blackstone wrote accessory), and Webster recommends that it be so preserved, and spelt accessory in other senses. But as it is often used of things fig. from the legal sense, as in accessary and principal, it is doubtful if the distinction is practicable. The historical and etymological pronunc. is ˈaccessary, but acˈcessary (cf. interˈcessory) is also in use. So with its derivatives.]
A. n.
1. One who accedes, or gives his accession (formerly access) to any act or undertaking; an adherent, assistant, or helper. In Law: ‘He who is not the chief actor in the offence, nor present at its performance, but in some way concerned therein, either before or after the fact committed.’ 1768 Blackstone Comment. IV. 35.
1480Caxton Chron. Eng. (1520) vii. 157 b/1 To take and brynge hym and his accessaryes to the kynge. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 40 To prison was I sent as principal, and my master as accessarie. 1660H. Finch Regicides (1679) 158 He knows very well there are no accessaries in Treason. 1859Mill Liberty iv. 129 The moral anomaly of punishing the accessary.
2. Of things. (Partly fig. from the last, partly from accessory a.) Anything assisting or contributory; anything subordinate; an adjunct, or accompaniment. (See accessory, B. 1.)
1534Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. of M. Aurel. (1546) H h. ij, The auctoritie of his office..ought to be his accessarie, and his good lyfe for principall. 1699Bentley Phalaris 424 It shews no great reverence to those Sacred Writings, to bring them, though it be but as Accessaries, into Farce and Ridicule. 1850A. Jameson Sacred & Leg. Art 355 The attention..is distracted by the accessaries.
B. adj.
1. Of persons: Acceding or adhering to; assisting as a subordinate. In Law: Participating or sharing in a crime, though not the chief actor; participant, privy.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. ii. 192 To both their deaths shalt thou be accessary. 1698Dryden æneid iv. 543 A God's command he pleads, And makes Heav'n accessary to his Deeds. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. xix. 30 Don't imagine that I would be accessary to your ruin for the world. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) I. i. 31 Both houses of parliament were commonly made accessary to the legal murders of this [Henry VIII's] reign.
†2. Of things: Subordinate, additional, accompanying, non-essential, adventitious; = accessory, A. 1 (which is now alone used in this sense). Obs.
1552–5Latimer Serm. & Rem. (1845) 37 Hawking and hunting is but an accessary thing. 1661Bramhall Just Vind. iii. 38 Foundations which were good in their original institution ought not to be destroyed for accessary abuses. 1691Case of Exeter Coll. 29 The Oath being accessary to the Statutes. |