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noun

Accession n.

1.

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.

2.

Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory. "The only accession which the Roman empire received was the province of Britain."

3.

(Law)

(a)

A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.

(b)

The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.

4.

The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.

5.

(Med.) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.

Synonyms: Increase; addition; augmentation; enlargement.

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... defeat for re-election in 1914, neither the Industrial Commission Law nor the Workmen's compensation Law nor any other major piece of social legislation was disturbed by his successor. In reviewing four years of the history of the law at his re-accession to power ...

— The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox • Charles E. Morris

... to her ancient uses in 1625. Soon after the accession of Charles I. the plague broke out in London, and Oxford entertained the Parliament, as six hundred years before she had received the Witan. There seemed something ominous in all that Charles did in his earlier years—the air, or men's minds, was full of the presage of fate. It was observed that ...

— Oxford • Andrew Lang

... chronicle of Achin dates the accession of the first Mahomedan king of that state, the nearest point of Sumatra to India and Arabia, in the year answering to A.D. 1205, and this is the earliest conversion among the Malays on record. It is doubtful, indeed, whether there were Kings of Achin ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... being settled, he was visited by almost all the gentlemen of the county, who came to pay their compliments of congratulation on his accession to the estate; and some of them offered their good offices towards a reconciliation betwixt his father and him, induced by the general detestation which was entertained for his brother Gam, who was by this time looked upon by his neighbours as a prodigy of insolence and malice. Our ...

— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

... contributed to them, and others (such as Ferguson and Maynwaring) obtained such literary notoriety as they possess by their means. The total volume of the kind produced during the quarter of a century between the Revolution and the accession of George the First would probably fill a considerable library. But the examples which really deserve exhumation are very few, and I doubt whether any can pretend to vie with the masterpieces of Defoe and Swift. Both these great writers were accomplished practitioners in the art, and ...

— Political Pamphlets • George Saintsbury

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