accession

Etymology

• First attested in 1646.
• From Latin accessio, from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /æk.ˈsɛ.ʃən/

Noun

accession (countable and uncountable, plural accessions)

1. A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined

   a king's accession to a confederacy

2. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Edward Gibbon

     The only accession that the Roman empire received was the province of Britain.

3. (law) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).
4. (law) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
5. The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
6. (medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
7. Agreement.
8. Access; admittance.

Verb

accession (third-person singular simple present accessions, present participle accessioning, simple past and past participle accessioned)

1. (transitive) To make a record of (additions to a collection).

Further reading

• accession at OneLook Dictionary Search
• accession in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• Ascencios

Noun

accession f (plural accessions)

1. accession (to throne)
2. (law) accession

   accession sociale à la propriété ― assisted home-ownership scheme

Further reading

• “accession” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).