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- Accident
- n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws.
- Accomplice
- n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney’s position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.
- Accord
- n. Harmony.
- Accordion
- n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
- Accountability
- n. The mother of caution.
“My accountability, bear in mind,”
Joram Tate
Said the Grand Vizier: “Yes, yes,”
Said the Shah: “I do — ’tis the only kind
Of ability you possess.” - Accuse
- v.t. To affirm another’s guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.
- Acephalous
- adj. In the surprising condition of the Crusader who absently pulled at his forelock some hours after a Saracen scimitar had, unconsciously to him, passed through his neck, as related by de Joinville.
- Achievement
- n. The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
- Acknowledge
- v.t. To confess. Acknowledgement of one another’s faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.