accentedadj.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie (new ed.) ii. vii. 66 The accented sillable with all the rest vnder him make the cadence.

1603 A. Top Oliue Leafe sig. C4 Sometime also such accented syllables be Musicall, for Time in reeding, as double sounding Vowels in other Languages are wont to be.

1694 W. Wotton Refl. Anc. & Mod. Learning iii. 34 All Syllables, except the Accented one in each Word, being now common in Modern Languages, we Northern People often make a Syllable short that has two or three Consonants in it.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Accent Every Bar or Measure is divided into accented and unaccented Parts.

1773 W. Kenrick Rhetorical Gram. Eng. Lang. 47 in New Dict. Eng. Lang. Almost all our English writers,..possessed with this inchangeability of accent and quantity, tell us, that all accented syllables are long.

1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. i. 39 The accented, or, if we choose rather to call them so, emphatic syllables, being regulated by a very different though uniform law.

1872 J. D'Esté Vocalists' Vade Mecum ii. 55 (heading) On singing accented notes.

1903 L. E. Kastner Hist. French Versification ii. 14 Mute e, following on an accented vowel, cannot count as a syllable in the body of the verse.

1938 I. Goldberg Wonder of Words ix. 186 There are technical names for words having accented last, second-last, and third-last syllables.

2006 Mod. Drummer Nov. 140/2 The unaccented snare notes should be played softly, as ghost notes. The accented snare notes can be played as rimshots.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 368 Accented Letters are much used in Latin Authors, and more in Greek.

1739 J. Kelly New Introd. Ital. 113 La, Le, Lo, after an accented letter, double the l.

1811 W. Kirkpatrick Acct. Kingdom Nepaul vii. 252 In the preceding Vocabulary, the a is to be pronounced long as in all;..the e sharp as the French accented é.

1837 London & Edinb. Philos. Mag. 10 28 Any accented symbol will be used to express the partial differential coefficient relative to x.

1881 C. E. Greene Trusses & Arches II. 7 The attempt has been made, by the use of capitals for the lettering of the trusses, accented capitals for the moment diagrams,..and numerals for the load line, &c.

1901 Amer. Printer May 204/1 Do not allow an accented letter, a fraction, an astronomical or mathematical sign, a punctuation mark or a thin space to be misplaced.

1950 Canad. Jrnl. Math. 2 291 A similar relation holds with accented symbols.

2002 N. Dale & J. Lewis Computer Sci. Illuminated iii. 64 The extended ASCII set allows for 256 characters and includes accented letters as well as several additional special symbols.

1729 J. Mitchell Poems Several Occasions I. 147 All, earnest, turn to Heav'n their melting Eyes, And plead for Mercy with accented cries.

1762 W. Kenrick tr. J.-J. Rousseau Emilius & Sophia I. ii. 275 Man hath three kinds of voice; the speaking or articulate voice, the singing or melodious voice, and the pathetic or accented voice, which is the language of the passions, and animates both our singing and our speech.

1852 C. H. Weigall Art of Figure Drawing 51 The suddenly terminated and accented line which the landscape draughtsman is in the habit of using..must be adopted with the utmost circumspection by the student.

1873 R. Broughton Nancy II. 120 ‘Algy!’ repeat I, in a tone of the profoundest, accentedest surprise.

1904 R. E. D. Sketchley Watts xii. 159 The difficulty of engineering the series of legs—eight equine, two human—planted like pillars across the picture, is partly overcome by the shadow that lies in a band along the ground, and partly by the accented colour-and-light incidents of the cock and pigeons.

1919 H. B. Lathrop Art of Novelist vi. 249 How piquant, how arresting and vivacious, how intimate also, and how immediately real the effect of this sharply accented background.

2008 C. Gilkey & W. T. Turner Christian County i. 48 (caption) This example of the late Victorian style featured an accented color scheme, a gable with a sunburst design, and high-ceiling rooms.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xxxiv. 159 I said, in my broken-accented Italian, We all here, Signors, are as much interested in the health and happiness of Lady Clementina, as any of her friends in Italy can be.

1827 T. Dibdin Reminisc. II. xiv. 357 This he did in good and well-accented English.

1837 Idler 3 Mar. 68/1 Whether Madame Eschborn warbles in guttural Dutch, aspirated German, or accented French strains, the furore of the audience is no less produced.

1866 Temple Bar Sept. 270 The badly-accented French of a Britisher is the most execrable torment that can be inflicted on the ear.

1925 Amer. Mercury May 99/1 Though not quite as teutonic as the speech of Milwaukee or Cincinnati, it is a heavily accented reichsdeutsches English.

1971 Leader (Durban) 7 May 8/4 His directness and his Malayalam-accented English were always irresistible.

1993 L. J. Rodriguez Always Running iii. 65 Félix livened up all of a sudden, and in accented speech he yelled out ‘modder fockers’.

2007 S. Smoller Rachel & Aleks xvii. 146 ‘Gallstones,’ he said in heavily accented Polish, ‘maybe the appendix, maybe woman trouble.’

1856 Titan July 64 An elderly man..made me a bow; And accentedly said, ‘Sir, I have not the pleasure?’

1904 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 564 Caesar, Lord of legions and of Rome, was accentedly uncomfortable.

a1913 F. Rolfe Desire & Pursuit of Whole (1934) viii. 70 She was accentedly hearty.

1958 ELH 25 189 Even in such accentedly pathetic works as the two poems he is at pains to make the mothers noisy and boastful.

1906 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1903–6 22 Accentedness of the verb-form to which nt is attached or of a following subject pronoun.

1981 Word 32 235 Of particular interest are her critical comments as she proceeds with her search for clues of accentedness.

2006 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 90 521/1 Derwing..found improved intelligibility and comprehensibility and reduced accentedness in sentences spoken by learners.