Library / English Dictionary

ACCESSION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)

Example:

Elizabeth's accession in 1558

Synonyms:

accession; rise to power

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("accession" is a kind of...):

attainment (the act of achieving an aim)

Derivation:

accede (take on duties or office)

access (reach or gain access to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The right to enter

Synonyms:

access; accession; admission; admittance; entree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("accession" is a kind of...):

right (an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accession"):

door (anything providing a means of access (or escape))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)

Example:

assenting to the Congressional determination

Synonyms:

accession; assenting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("accession" is a kind of...):

agreement (the verbal act of agreeing)

Derivation:

accede (to agree or express agreement)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Something added to what you already have

Example:

he was a new addition to the staff

Synonyms:

accession; addition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("accession" is a kind of...):

acquisition (something acquired)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("accession" is a kind of...):

property right (the legal right of ownership)

Domain category:

civil law (the body of laws established by a state or nation for its own regulation)

Sense 6

Meaning:

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

Example:

the art collection grew through accession

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("accession" is a kind of...):

growth; increase; increment (a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "accession" is one way to...):

enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)

Domain category:

recording; transcription (the act of making a record (especially an audio record))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

How long ago it is, aunt, since we used to repeat the chronological order of the kings of England, with the dates of their accession, and most of the principal events of their reigns!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

His unexpected accession to title and fortune had removed all his difficulties; and never had the general loved his daughter so well in all her hours of companionship, utility, and patient endurance as when he first hailed her Your Ladyship!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It was an afternoon of distress, and Anne had every thing to do at once; the apothecary to send for, the father to have pursued and informed, the mother to support and keep from hysterics, the servants to control, the youngest child to banish, and the poor suffering one to attend and soothe; besides sending, as soon as she recollected it, proper notice to the other house, which brought her an accession rather of frightened, enquiring companions, than of very useful assistants.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)