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Accost   /əkˈɔst/   Listen
verb
Accost  v. t.  (past & past part. accosted; pres. part. accosting)  
1.
To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. (Obs.) "So much (of Lapland) as accosts the sea."
2.
To approach; to make up to. (Archaic)
3.
To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts."


Accost  v. i.  To adjoin; to lie alongside. (Obs.) "The shores which to the sea accost."


noun
Accost  n.  Address; greeting. (R.)





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"Accost" Quotes from Famous Books



... with Major Sanford! My blood chilled in my veins, and I stood petrified with astonishment at the disclosure of such baseness and deceit. They both rose in visible confusion. I dared not trust myself to accost them. My passions were raised, and I feared that I might say or do something unbecoming my character. I therefore gave them a look of indignation and contempt, and retreated to the house. I traversed the parlor hastily, overwhelmed with chagrin and resentment. Mrs. Wharton inquired the ...
— The Coquette - The History of Eliza Wharton • Hannah Webster Foster
... hay-carts. The drivers were lying flat upon the top of their loads, and sang. Both were bare-headed, and both had round, care-free faces. I passed them and thought to myself that they were sure to accost me, sure to fling some taunt or other at me, play me some trick; and as I got near enough, one of them called out and asked what I had ...
— Hunger • Knut Hamsun
... was asleep, and for nearly ten minutes we heard voices within, male and female, ineffectually endeavouring to persuade the heavy-headed Cerberus to relinquish his keys. It would have been a choice moment for our friends, had any of them wished to accost us; but either they had not observed us, or perhaps they thought that C—-n walking so late must have been armed; or perhaps, more charitable construction, they had profited by the solemnities ...
— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon de la Barca
... between the hours of three and half- past three p.m. You must be attired in full mourning costume, carrying a glove in your left hand, and a black cane, with a silver top, in your right. A lady will drop her purse beside you. You will accost her.' ...
— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang
... their friends, and forty-nine went back to their old ways. The building is capable of accommodating from forty-five to fifty inmates. The members of the Society go out on the streets every Friday night, and as they encounter the Street Walkers, accost them, detain them a few moments in conversation, and hand each of them a card bearing ...
— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe


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