accessary

American  

[ak-ses-uh-ree] / ækˈsɛs ə ri /

noun

• accessaries
  plural

1. accessory.

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accessary British  

/ əkˈsɛsərɪ /

noun

1. law a less common spelling of accessory

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• accessariness
  noun
• accessarily
  adverb

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• accessaries
  plural

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Example Sentences

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accessary accessaries

Another popular accessary was face jewelry around the nose and cheekbones.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2021

Aquarella, however, could never become an accessary to so sad a crime—her waters could never injure any one, save in one place, where the young Lord Albert loved to come and bathe.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper

It slew itself; the verdict on the view Do quit the dead, and me not accessary.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Martha Foote Crow

Were not you, Mr Beamont, and you, Collins both accessary to the horrid plot, for the surprisal of this fort and island?

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott

In Pekin, the shew was but an accessary; every one pursued his business, at the same time that he gratified his curiosity.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Sir John Barrow

In fact, the whole mind of the painter seems to have been set upon making the principals accessary, and the accessaries principal.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by John Ruskin

As accessaries in landscape, they are just to be drawn on the same principles as anything else.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin

In treason, all the participes criminis are principals; there are no accessaries to this crime.

From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker

As accessaries in landscape, they are just to be drawn on the same principles as anything else. xv.

From The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners by John Ruskin

Intrenchments, though inert masses, must therefore be regarded as most valuable and important accessaries in the defence of a position.

From Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. by Henry Wager Halleck

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