What does accolent mean?
Accolent means One who lives nearby; neighbor..
Accolent
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Meaning
One who lives nearby; neighbor..
Definitions by Sense
- One who lives nearby; neighbor.
- Occurring or living next to; neighboring; adjacent.
Example Sentences
The necessity of water-communication in the narrow valley through which the Nile flows, particularly at the time of the inundations, must have probably induced the accolents of the river to have engaged early in navigation ; and the classes which had been formerly familiar with its waters by fishing, could easily form the subsequent nautical caste.
Immediately about the Golconda Fort the rocks, almost wholly syenitic and granitic, supply only quartz, chalcedony, carnelian, and amethyst ; but we had heard of chance diamonds being picked up by the accolents of the Krishna river, and Sir Salar Jung, with his usual liberality, proposed laying a dák for us to Raichor.
He entered with a dash of gallantry, native, one might say, to the reckless spirit of the accolent.
The ancient accolents of Sikyatki have left no written records, for, unlike the more cultured people of Central America, they had no codices; but they have left on these old mortuary pottery objects a large body of picture-writings or paleography which reveals many instructive phases of their former culture.
This area is bounded on the north by the tribes speaking Barba or Borghu, by the Takpas (Tappas) of Nufe, and by the other races accolent to the Kwara (Quorra) River: to the south is the Atlantic washing the Bight of Benin ; eastward are the various tongues of the Niger Proper, and especially the Ibo (Eboe); and westward lies the Gold Coast family of languages.
The “madreporite ” is chiefly an excretory apparatus, the presumed “heart” accolent to the sand-canal and abutting on the madreporite, a gland.
Uses — Roots and rhizome arc stimulant annetic nausean stomachic, aromatic, expectorant, carminative antispasmodic and nervine, seditive in large doses i.e. 30 to 40 grains, it produces accolent and persistent emesis.
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- accolents
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The necessity of water-communication in the narrow valley through which the Nile flows, particularly at the time of the inundations, must have probably induced the accolents of the river to have engaged early in navigation ; and the classes which had been formerly familiar with its waters by fishing, could easily form the subsequent nautical caste.
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