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noun

Accessory n. (pl. accessories)

That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate. "The aspect and accessories of a den of banditti."

(Law) Same as Accessary, n.

(Fine Arts) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.

Synonyms: Abettor; accomplice; ally; coadjutor. See Abettor.

adjective

Accessory adj. Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music. Note: Ash accents the antepenult; and this is not only more regular, but preferable, on account of easiness of pronunciation. Most orhoepists place the accent on the first syllable.

Synonyms: Accompanying; contributory; auxiliary; subsidiary; subservient; additional; acceding.

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"Accessory" Quotes from Famous Books

... had its central pueblo and its outlying rancherias. Sometimes the rancherias were occupied from year to year, especially in time of peace, but usually they were occupied only during seasons of cultivation. Such groups of ruins and pueblos with accessory rancherias are still inhabited, and have been described as found throughout the Plateau Province except far to the north beyond the Uinta Mountains. A great pueblo once existed in the Uinta Valley on the south side of the mountains. This is the most northern pueblo ...

— Canyons of the Colorado • J. W. Powell

... exactions, to be nursed and petted and cajoled in all his faults and fault-findings, and to see everybody falling prostrate before his will in the domestic circle? Is this the true way to make him a manly and Christ-like man? It is my belief that many so-called good wives have been accessory to making their husbands very ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various

... caprice. Neither do I want to appeal to you or frighten you, but I must tell you now, that I know certain facts that might make such a simple act of folly monstrous, inconceivable in YOU, and almost accessory to a crime! I can tell you no more. But so satisfied am I of such a possibility, that I shall not scruple to take any means—the strongest—to prevent even the remotest chance of it. Your aunt has ...

— Susy, A Story of the Plains • Bret Harte

... the substance of the Christian doctrine of judgment, as taught in the New Testament. All else is accessory, and belongs to the rhetoric—is part of the mise en scene; but there are two points in the views of the apostle concerning judgment, which deserve further notice. The first is in 1 Cor. 6:2, where he says, "Know ye not ...

— Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors • James Freeman Clarke

... An humble accessory in the scenery set for you? I?—a stage property fashioned merely for the hero of ...

— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers

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