单词 | accessit |
释义 | accessitn. 1. Roman Catholic Church. A supplementary round of voting in a papal election, held immediately after a ballot has failed to elect a candidate with a two-thirds majority. Now historical.Accessit votes are added to the votes cast for each candidate in the original ballot. If the accessit then fails to elect a Pope, the votes are burnt and an entirely new ballot takes place. Voting by accessit was prohibited by the Cardinal Dean in the election of Pius X in 1903, and subsequently removed from Canon Law. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [noun] > method of electing > secondary vote accession1670 accessit1723 1723 P. Davall tr. Cardinal de Retz Memoirs IV. 290 Usually they alter and correct the Scrutiny by what they call Accessit [Fr. accessit], every Cardinal giving a second Vote for another person. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 240/1 After each scrutiny an ‘accessit’ takes place; i.e.,..it is open to every voter to declare that he ‘accedes’ to such or such a candidate. 1918 C. Seymour & D. P. Frary How World Votes I. ii. 37 There was a daily, secret ballot, followed by the Accessit, or second ballot. 1984 K. M. Setton Papacy & Levant IV. xiv. 612/1 Ferrara had in fact drummed up so many votes that if ‘accessits’ were to be permitted after the first scrutiny, he would almost certainly be elected pope. 2004 D. Osborn Last Pope xxx. 280 The tally at the end of the accessit was Mancini forty-two, Ignatius thirty-six, [etc.]. 2. In France: an honourable mention in an examination or competition. Also with preceding ordinal number denoting position in a series of such acknowledgements. Cf. proxime accessit adj. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > marks > specific marks accessit1753 honour1774 credit1802 second class1810 firsta1830 first class1830 third class1844 Hons.1850 max1851 second1852 special mention1886 distinction?1890 A1892 E1892 pass mark1894 two-two1895 alpha1898 alpha plus1898 gamma1898 beta1902 delta1911 alpha minus1914 fourth1914 straight A1926 two-one1937 lower second1960 honourable mention2011 1753 Gentleman's Mag. 23 Suppl. 612 The prize of arts was adjudg'd to the memoir No. 12,..and the accessit to the piece No. 6. 1827 New Monthly Mag. 21 301/1 Every year the University adjudges to all the colleges of Paris and Versailles an immense number of chief prizes, secondary prizes, and accessits. 1884 Harper's Mag. Mar. 597/2 In the competition for the..prize medal..he gained the accessit. 1898 Daily News 20 Jan. 8/5 He became a student at the Paris Conservatoire, where, however, he did not take very high honours, gaining only a second accessit in comic opera. 1958 French Rev. 31 371 The winning eulogies of Henri Patin and Armand Malitourne and that which brought Saint-Marc Girardin an accessit were little concerned with the question of sources. 1994 D. Irvine Massenet xi. 134 All the winners were from his class: first prizes, Grandjany and Perroni; second prize, Missa; first accessit, Kaiser; second accessit, Schwartz. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1723 |
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