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Accession

noun

1.

A process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group).

2.

(civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement.

3.

Something added to what you already have. Synonym: addition. "He was a new addition to the staff"

4.

Agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly). Synonym: assenting. "Assenting to the Congressional determination"

5.

The right to enter. Synonyms: access, admission, admittance, entree.

6.

The act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne). Synonym: rise to power.

verb

1.

Make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library.

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"Accession" Quotes from Famous Books

... Since the accession to power of the bourgeois class, Arcis had felt a vague desire to show itself independent. Consequently, the last election of Francois Keller had been disturbed by certain republicans, whose red caps and long beards had not, however, seriously alarmed the bourgeois of Arcis. By canvassing ...

— The Deputy of Arcis • Honore de Balzac

... the tumultuous scene on the night between 24th and 25th Jan., A.D. 41, before Claudius' accession, after the murder of Caligula (cf. the pun in caliganti), when rival claimants to the throne were put forward, and the Senate wished to restore the republic (cf. discordia membra trepidarent). Sen. ad Polyb. 13, 1, uses similar language of Claudius, ...

— The Student's Companion to Latin Authors • George Middleton

... the first place, to obtain some idea of the conducting power of ice and solid salts for electricity of high tension (392.), that a comparison might be made between it and the large accession of the same power gained upon liquefaction. For this purpose the large electrical machine (290.) was brought into excellent action, its conductor connected with a delicate gold-leaf electrometer, and also with the platina inclosed in the ice (383.), whilst the tin case was connected ...

— Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 • Michael Faraday

... capable otherwise directed of mastering a science, and secondly (because directed to an unnatural composition, viz. an arrangement of metre, which is at once the rudest and the most elaborately artificial), so disgusting as that no accession of knowledge could compensate the injury thus done to the simplicity of the child's understanding, by connecting pain and a sense of unintelligible mystery with his earliest steps in knowledge,—all ...

— The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey--Vol. 1 - With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg • Thomas de Quincey

... as a national bank would increase our industry, and that our wealth, England may not be a proportionable gainer; and whether we should not consider the gains of our mother-country as some accession ...

— The Querist • George Berkeley

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