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▪ I. accost, v.|əˈkɒst|
Also 6–7 acoast, accoast.
[a. Fr. accoste-r, OFr. acoster:—late L. accostāre to be side to side, f. ac- = ad- to + costa rib, in late L. side. While still consciously connected with coast it remained accoast, but since the idea of to address has become the leading one, it has been pronounced and written accost. Cf. abord, aboard.]
†1. intr. (as in late L. accostare cum). To lie alongside, to coast, border; keep close. Obs.
1596Spenser F.Q. v. xi. 42 All the shores, which to the sea accoste, He day and night doth ward both farre and wide. Ibid. vi. ii. 32 Ne is there hauke which mantleth her on pearch, Whether high towring or accoasting low. 1611Cotgr., Accoster: To accoast, or joyne side to side; to approach, or draw neere unto.
†2. trans. To border on, adjoin. Obs.
1610Holland Camaen's Brit. i. 641 On the south side it is accosted with the Severn sea. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. State iv. xix. 338 If his land accosteth the sea, he considereth what havens therein are barr'd. 1662― Worthies, Derbyshire 235 Lapland hath since been often surrounded (so much as accosts the sea) by the English.
†3. To go alongside of; to keep by the side of, to sail along the coast or side of. Obs. Cf. coast v.
1578G. Fenton Hist. Guicciardin (1618) 346 The French..after they had accoasted the enemie to the mount Argentaro, returned againe to Genes. 1603Florio Montaigne (1634) 463 This [society of books] accosteth and secondeth all my course, and everywhere assisteth me.
†4. refl. To accost oneself with: To keep beside, keep company with. Obs. rare.
1633J. Done tr. Aristeas 92 Those that custome and acost themselves with men wise and prudent..change from good to better.
†5. intr. To approach, draw near to. Obs. rare.
1635J. Hayward Banish'd Virgin 54 If, leaving naturall considerations, we accoast to the supernaturall.
6. trans. To go close to, to approach, for any purpose; to assail, to face; to make up to. arch.
1599Bp. Hall Virgidem, Def. to Envie 29 That Envie should accoast my muse and me. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. i. iii. 52 T. Accost Sir Andrew, accost..A. Good mistris Mary, accost. T. Accost, is front her, boord her, woe her, assayle her. 1611Cotgr., Aborder: To approach, accoast, abboord, or draw neer unto. 1641F. Greville Episcopacy 22 Iron when accoasted by two load-stones of equall vertue on either side, not daring to embrace either, hovereth in medio between both. 1645Quarles Sol. Recant. x. 72 Rebell not thou, nor in a hostile way Accoast thy Prince; or suffer, or obey. 1704Swift Ta. Tub Wks. 1760 I. 100 How fading and insipid do all objects accost us that are not conveyed in the vehicle of delusion. 1765Tucker Lt. of Nat. II. 382 Incapable of resisting the first temptation that should accost him. 1874J. H. Newman Dream of Geront. 16 All around Over the surface of my subtle being, As though I were a sphere, and capable To be accosted thus.
7. a. To make up to and speak to; to address.
1612Chapman Widdowe's Teares Plays 1873 III. 10 Ile a-coast her Countesship. 1630Lord Banians 20 Shuddery at length accoasted her, whose approach she received doubtfully. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 822 [They] thus, unmoved with fear, accost him soon. 1718Pope Iliad x. 224 Nestor with joy the wakeful band survey'd, And thus accosted through the gloomy shade. 1785Cowper Gilpin 56 The Callender..Laid down his pipe, flew to the gate, And thus accosted him. 1794Paley Evid. (1817) ii. ix. 216 The first epistle of Peter accosts the Christians dispersed throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia. 1833Brewster Nat. Magic i. 4 The vocal statue of Memnon, which began at the break of day to accost the rising sun. 1839W. Irving Wolfert's Roost (1855) 101 Accosting the commander with an air of coolness and unconcern.
b. Of a woman: to solicit in the street for an improper purpose.
1887Times 12 July 11/5 The police-constable said she was in company with a second female, and that they had accosted gentlemen. 1927Daily Mail 29 Sept. 10/1 The Cass case of 40 years ago, in which a young woman of irreproachable character was arrested..and charged..with accosting.
▪ II. accost, n.|əˈkɒst|
[f. the vb.]
Address, salutation, greeting.
1616B. Jonson Cynth. Revels v. iii, They act their accost severally to the lady that stands forth. 1650A. B. Mutatus Polemo 27 At the first accost there was nothing but dumb shews. 1807J. Beresford Miseries II. xviii. 170 Shooting your affectionate accosts, enquiries, and details, at each other. 1854Mrs. Gaskell North & S. viii. in Househ. Words No. 236. 159/1 She shrunk with fastidious pride from their hail-fellow accost, and severely resented their unconcealed curiosity. 1859Ramsay Scot. Life & Char. 60, I recollect her accost to me as well as if it were yesterday. 1877J. Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. ii. 248 The warm kindliness of his accost. |