accumulativeadj.

1641 Annot. Earle of Straffords Concl. sig. A2 The endeavouring to subvert the fundamental laws of the Land, that they should now bee Treason, together, that is not Treason in any one part of Treason accumulative, that for when all will not doe, it is woven up with others, it should seeme very strange.

1641 B. Walton Treat. conc. Payment Tythes in London vi. 68 The Majors power was not exclusive to any other Jurisdiction, but onely accumulative.

1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 44 Scatter th' accumulative King; untruss That five-fold fiend, the States Smectymnuus.

1694 E. Phillips tr. J. Milton Lett. of State 67 For more ample and accumulative satisfaction, and to remove all scruples from your Excellency.

1767 Ann. Reg. 1766 9/1 No particular crime was specified in the sentence against Sully, but a general accumulative charge in which treason was comprehended.

1776 Ann. Reg. 1775 68/1 It would be..an act of the most consummate baseness..to..leave it in all its accumulative bulk and weight, to drop upon the heads of our posterity.

1859 B. P. Shillaber Knitting-work 261 The mark of an old chimney-flue, black and sooty with the accumulative smoke of years.

1862 R. Whately in E. J. Whately Life & Corr. R. Whately (1866) II. 392 Such persons cannot understand the force of accumulative proof.

1863 Morning Star 7 Jan. 6 The sinking fund is accumulative.

1936 J. C. Powys Maiden Castle (1937) v. 198 Exploiting in fact all his accumulative malice against her.

1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male iii. 119 The usefulness of an accumulative incidence curve cannot be over-emphasized.

2001 FourFourTwo Aug. 24/2 It was the 15th and final leg of a 30p accumulator... In fact the accumulative odds of more than 1.6 million-to-one should have landed him £835,413.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Poems 139 Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative.

1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. i. iii. 21 His was a discreet ambition—of an accumulative rather than an aspiring character.

1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. xxii. 353 Turner in these sketches showed himself as doggedly patient as he was accumulative and versatile.

1913 C. D. Larson Business Psychol. x. 117 The man who gives his whole attention to the accumulation of wealth may gain wealth for a while if he originally possessed accumulative ability.

1996 Observer 29 Dec. 27/1 His accumulative instincts for the arcana of metaphysics, of Church history, of literary theories, of classical rhetoric, were unquenchable.

1999 P. I. Bogucki Origins Human Society vi. 209 Ambitious, enterprising, aggressive, accumulative people who achieve a dominant position in the community.

1796 Picture; or My own Choice v. 85 Heaven itself becomes your debtor there, and grants accumulative interest to—the principle of secretly doing good.

1846 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 308/1 An increasing stock which, provided it be left untouched, and have all accumulative interest added to it, will, at the expiration of five years, amount..to a yearly income of £600.

1931 Times 31 Dec. 19/5 During which period holders would receive accumulative interest at the rate of 5½ per cent. per annum.

1998 J. Brigham Dying to Quit viii. 178 $3,650 [is the] cost of purchasing a pack of cigarettes a day for 5 years, not including inflation or lost accumulative interest.

1647 Briefe Relation Answeres Earle of Strafford 46 [Strafford replied] That neither in Statute Law, Common Law, nor practise, there was ever, till this time, heard of such a matter as Accumulative-Treason, or a Treason by way of consequence, but that it is a word newly coyned to attend a Charge newly invented, such an one as never was before.

1649 J. Cleveland Char. Country Committee-man 1 For a Committee-man is a noun of Multitude,..thus the name is as monstrous as the man, a compleat notion of the same linnage with accumulative treason.

1795 True Briton 6 Jan. I..consider a charge made out by accumulative Treason and the evidence of Spies as extremely dangerous to the forms and principles of the Constitution.

1874 B. M. Gardiner & J. S. Phillpotts King & Commonw. iv. 90 The whole of the charges, twenty-eight in all, mounted up to a sort of accumulative treason.

1993 W. Palmer Polit. Career Oliver St. John ii. 50 He reiterated the Commons's earlier arguments of accumulative treason and that the overthrow of any statute constituted a war against the king.