8 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Accredit \Ac*cred"it\ ([a^]k*kr[e^]d"[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Accredited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accrediting}.] [F.
accr['e]diter; [`a] (L. ad) + cr['e]dit credit. See
{Credit}.]
1. To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or
authority; to sanction.
His censure will . . . accredit his praises.
--Cowper.
These reasons . . . which accredit and fortify mine
opinion. --Shelton.
2. To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy,
or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or
delegate.
Beton . . . was accredited to the Court of France.
--Froude.
3. To believe; to credit; to put trust in.
The version of early Roman history which was
accredited in the fifth century. --Sir G. C.
Lewis.
He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions
and witchcraft. --Southey.
4. To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing
something, or (something) as belonging to some one.
{To accredit} (one) {with} (something), to attribute
something to him; as, Mr. Clay was accredited with these
views; they accredit him with a wise saying.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
With \With\, n.
See {Withe}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
With \With\, prep. [OE. with, AS. wi? with, against; akin to AS.
wi?er against, OFries. with, OS. wi?, wi?ar, D. weder,
we[^e]r (in comp.), G. wider against, wieder gain, OHG. widar
again, against, Icel. vi? against, with, by, at, Sw. vid at,
by, Dan. ved, Goth. wipra against, Skr. vi asunder. Cf.
{Withdraw}, {Withers}, {Withstand}.]
With denotes or expresses some situation or relation of
nearness, proximity, association, connection, or the like. It
is used especially:
1. To denote a close or direct relation of opposition or
hostility; -- equivalent to against.
Thy servant will . . . fight with this Philistine.
--1 Sam. xvii.
32.
Note: In this sense, common in Old English, it is now
obsolete except in a few compounds; as, withhold;
withstand; and after the verbs fight, contend,
struggle, and the like.
2. To denote association in respect of situation or
environment; hence, among; in the company of.
I will buy with you, talk with you, walk with you,
and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink
with you, nor pray with you. --Shak.
Pity your own, or pity our estate, Nor twist our
fortunes with your sinking fate. --Dryden.
See where on earth the flowery glories lie; With her
they flourished, and with her they die. --Pope.
There is no living with thee nor without thee.
--Tatler.
Such arguments had invincible force with those pagan
philosophers. --Addison.
3. To denote a connection of friendship, support, alliance,
assistance, countenance, etc.; hence, on the side of.
Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee.
--Gen. xxvi.
24.
4. To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument,
etc; -- sometimes equivalent to by.
That with these fowls I be all to-rent. --Chaucer.
Thou wilt be like a lover presently, And tire the
hearer with a book of words. --Shak.
[He] entertained a coffeehouse with the following
narrative. --Addison.
With receiving your friends within and amusing them
without, you lead a good, pleasant, bustling life of
it. --Goldsmith.
5. To denote association in thought, as for comparison or
contrast.
Can blazing carbuncles with her compare. --Sandys.
6. To denote simultaneous happening, or immediate succession
or consequence.
With that she told me . . . that she would hide no
truth from me. --Sir P.
Sidney.
With her they flourished, and with her they die.
--Pope.
With this he pointed to his face. --Dryden.
7. To denote having as a possession or an appendage; as, the
firmament with its stars; a bride with a large fortune.
``A maid with clean hands.'' --Shak.
Note: With and by are closely allied in many of their uses,
and it is not easy to lay down a rule by which to
distinguish their uses. See the Note under {By}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Withe \Withe\ (?; 277), n. [OE. withe. ????. See {Withy}, n.]
[Written also {with}.]
1. A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a
willow or osier twig; a withy.
2. A band consisting of a twig twisted.
3. (Naut.) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom,
with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged
out and secured; a wythe. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
4. (Arch.) A partition between flues in a chimney.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Acquaintance \Ac*quaint"ance\, n. [OE. aqueintance, OF.
acointance, fr. acointier. See {Acquaint}.]
1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or
more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal
knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of
friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no
acquaintance with him.
Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a
guileful man. --Sir W.
Jones.
2. A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.
--Macaulay.
Note: In this sense the collective term acquaintance was
formerly both singular and plural, but it is now
commonly singular, and has the regular plural
acquaintances.
{To be of acquaintance}, to be intimate.
{To take acquaintance of} or {with}, to make the acquaintance
of. [Obs.]
Syn: Familiarity; intimacy; fellowship; knowledge.
Usage: {Acquaintance}, {Familiarity}, {Intimacy}. These words
mark different degrees of closeness in social
intercourse. Acquaintance arises from occasional
intercourse; as, our acquaintance has been a brief
one. We can speak of a slight or an intimate
acquaintance. Familiarity is the result of continued
acquaintance. It springs from persons being frequently
together, so as to wear off all restraint and reserve;
as, the familiarity of old companions. Intimacy is the
result of close connection, and the freest interchange
of thought; as, the intimacy of established
friendship.
Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our
nearer acquaintance with him. --Addison.
We contract at last such a familiarity with them
as makes it difficult and irksome for us to call
off our minds. --Atterbury.
It is in our power to confine our friendships
and intimacies to men of virtue. --Rogers.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Please \Please\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pleased}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Pleasing}.] [OE. plesen, OF. plaisir, fr. L. placere, akin
to placare to reconcile. Cf. {Complacent}, {Placable},
{Placid}, {Plea}, {Plead}, {Pleasure}.]
1. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or
emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to
satisfy.
I pray to God that it may plesen you. --Chaucer.
What next I bring shall please thee, be assured.
--Milton.
2. To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to
desire; to will.
Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he. --Ps.
cxxxv. 6.
A man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases,
are the same things in common speech. --J. Edwards.
3. To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used
impersonally. ``It pleased the Father that in him should
all fullness dwell.'' --Col. i. 19.
To-morrow, may it please you. --Shak.
{To be pleased in} or {with}, to have complacency in; to take
pleasure in.
{To be pleased to do a thing}, to take pleasure in doing it;
to have the will to do it; to think proper to do it.
--Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
7. To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an
act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over
or through.
By going over all these particulars, you may receive
some tolerable satisfaction about this great
subject. --South.
8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate.
The fruit she goes with, I pray for heartily, that
it may find Good time, and live. --Shak.
9. To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence
the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to
depart; -- in opposition to stay and come.
I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord
your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away.
--Ex. viii.
28.
10. To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to
perish; to decline; to decease; to die.
By Saint George, he's gone! That spear wound hath
our master sped. --Sir W.
Scott.
11. To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the
street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New
York.
His amorous expressions go no further than virtue
may allow. --Dryden.
12. To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law.
Note: Go is used, in combination with many prepositions and
adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the
preposition or adverb, in which, and not in the verb,
lies the principal force of the expression; as, to go
against to go into, to go out, to go aside, to go
astray, etc.
{Go to}, come; move; go away; -- a phrase of exclamation,
serious or ironical.
{To go a-begging}, not to be in demand; to be undesired.
{To go about}.
(a) To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to
undertake. ``They went about to slay him.'' --Acts
ix. 29.
They never go about . . . to hide or palliate
their vices. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear.
{To go abraod}.
(a) To go to a foreign country.
(b) To go out of doors.
(c) To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be
current.
Then went this saying abroad among the
brethren. --John xxi.
23.
{To go against}.
(a) To march against; to attack.
(b) To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to.
{To go ahead}.
(a) To go in advance.
(b) To go on; to make progress; to proceed.
{To go and come}. See {To come and go}, under {Come}.
{To go aside}.
(a) To withdraw; to retire.
He . . . went aside privately into a desert
place. --Luke. ix.
10.
(b) To go from what is right; to err. --Num. v. 29.
{To go back on}.
(a) To retrace (one's path or footsteps).
(b) To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U.
S.]
{To go below}
(Naut), to go below deck.
{To go between}, to interpose or mediate between; to be a
secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander.
{To go beyond}. See under {Beyond}.
{To go by}, to pass away unnoticed; to omit.
{To go by the board} (Naut.), to fall or be carried
overboard; as, the mast went by the board.
{To go down}.
(a) To descend.
(b) To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down.
(c) To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc.
(d) To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively.
[Colloq.]
Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down
whole with him for truth. --L' Estrange.
{To go far}.
(a) To go to a distance.
(b) To have much weight or influence.
{To go for}.
(a) To go in quest of.
(b) To represent; to pass for.
(c) To favor; to advocate.
(d) To attack; to assault. [Low]
(e) To sell for; to be parted with for (a price).
{To go for nothing}, to be parted with for no compensation or
result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count
for nothing.
{To go forth}.
(a) To depart from a place.
(b) To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate.
The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of
the Lord from Jerusalem. --Micah iv. 2.
{To go hard with}, to trouble, pain, or endanger.
{To go in}, to engage in; to take part. [Colloq.]
{To go in and out}, to do the business of life; to live; to
have free access. --John x. 9.
{To go in for}. [Colloq.]
(a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a
measure, etc.).
(b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor,
preferment, etc.)
(c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.).
(d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc.
He was as ready to go in for statistics as for
anything else. --Dickens.
{To go in to} or {unto}.
(a) To enter the presence of. --Esther iv. 16.
(b) To have sexual intercourse with. [Script.]
{To go into}.
(a) To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question,
subject, etc.).
(b) To participate in (a war, a business, etc.).
{To go large}.
(Naut) See under {Large}.
{To go off}.
(a) To go away; to depart.
The leaders . . . will not go off until they
hear you. --Shak.
(b) To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off.
(c) To die. --Shak.
(d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of
a gun, a mine, etc.
(e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of.
(f) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.
The wedding went off much as such affairs do.
--Mrs.
Caskell.
{To go