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▪ I. accumulate, ppl. a.|əˈkjuːmjʊlət|
Also 6 accumulat, accumilate.
[ad. L. accumulāt-us, pa. pple. of accumulā-re to heap up; f. ac- = ad- to + cumulā-re to heap; f. cumul-us a heap.]
Heaped up by additions; aggregate. Formerly both adj. and pple.; as pple. now replaced by accumulated.
1533More To Henry VIII, Wks. 1557, 1424/1 Of your mere abundant goodnes heped and accumilate vpon me. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. 11 Socrates..was made a person heroycall, and his memorie accumulate with honors diuine and humane. 1667H. More Div. Dial. (1713) v. xxix. 498 A very accumulate Completion of that Prediction. 1704T. Hearne Duct. Hist. (ed. 3) I. 223 It was an accumulate Number, or Council of Priests, to whom ordinary appeals came. 1821Southey Vis. Judgm. Wks. X. 225 The blast with lightning and thunder Vollying aright and aleft amid the accumulate blackness. 1878B. Taylor Pr. Deukalion ii. iv. 80 The accumulate store saved from the wrecks of Time.
▪ II. accumulate, v.|əˈkjuːmjʊleɪt|
[f. prec. (or on analogy of vbs. so formed); with pple. accumulated, in presence of which the earlier participial use of accumulate went out.]
1. trans. To heap up in a mass, to pile up; to amass or collect.a. Usually fig.
1529Wolsey in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 105. II. 11 I desyre nat thys for any mynde, God ys my jugge, that I have to accumulat good. 1541Elyot Im. Gouern. 8 This Zoticus..solde all the saiynges and doynges of the Emperour, intendynge to accumilate abundance of richesse. 1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 370 Neuer pray more: Abandon all remorse On Horrors head, Horrors accumulate. 1613― Hen. VIII, iii. ii. 107 What piles of wealth hath he accumulated? 1692Ray Dissol. World 41 I might accumulate places out of the Ancients and moderns to this purpose. 1769Burke State Nat. Wks. II. 82 She borrowed large sums in every year; and has thereby accumulated an immense debt. 1798Ferriar Cert. Var. Man 199 Pliny exerted surprising industry in accumulating authorities. 1840Macaulay Clive 7 Those who lived to rise to the top of the service often accumulated considerable fortunes. 1875Gladstone Gleanings VI. xxxvi. 128 To accumulate observances of ritual is to accumulate responsibility.
b. lit. (after Lat.) rare.
1809J. Barlow Columbiad iii. 662 Soon the young captive prince shall roll in fire, And all his race accumulate the pyre. 1880Stanley in Evening Standard 24 Feb. 8/5 Had either of them fallen in that arduous struggle, their graves would have been accumulated with all the honours which the American Republic could bestow.
c. absol. (in fig. sense).
1858J. G. Holland Titcomb's Lett. vii. 237 We strive to accumulate beyond our wants and beyond the wants of our families.
2. To take (degrees) by accumulation, to take a higher degree at the same time with a lower, or at a shorter interval than is usual; as permitted at some of the English Universities; also absol.
1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. col. 862 He accumulated the degrees in Physick, and was afterwards honorary Fellow of the Coll. of Phys. at Lond. Ibid. I. col. 819 Rob. Moor of New Coll. who accumulated, was admitted. 1721Amherst Terr. Fil. Ded. 7 Doctor Wills..was strenuously opposed in taking his degree..and was by many persons denied the common favour of accumulating. 1753Chambers Cycl. Wood gives numerous instances of Accumulators, i.e. persons who accumulated or took degrees by Accumulation, at Oxford.
3. intr. (from reflexive). To grow into a mass, quantity or number; to go on increasing. (Not in J.)
1759Symmer in Ellis Orig. Lett. ii. 477 IV. 413 Setting aside the debt that must accumulate upon it. 1769Goldsmith Des. Vill. 52 Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. 1796J. Morse Amer. Geog. I. 417 These funds..are fast accumulating by interest. 1816Shelley Alastor 431 More dark And dark the shades accumulate. 1856Kane Arctic Explor. I. xx. 250 On the 26th disasters accumulated. 1866Motley Dutch Rep. iv. v. 627 Events were rapidly rolling together from every quarter, and accumulating to a crisis. 1868Peard Water-farming xv. 157 Mud is apt to accumulate in such places. |