accompass
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Superficially ac- + compass, but perhaps a- (“intensifying prefix”) + compass (“to accomplish”).
Verb
[edit]accompass (third-person singular simple present accompasses, present participle accompassing, simple past and past participle accompassed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To achieve; effect; bring about.
- 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offered to the great Deservings of John Williams, D.D:
- The remotion of two such impediments is not commonly accompass'd by one head-piece.
References
[edit]- “accompass”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.