Crossword clues for accomplished
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accomplish \Ac*com"plish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accomplished, p. pr. & vb. n. Accomplishing.] [OE. acomplissen, OF. accomplir, F. accomplir; L. ad + complere to fill up, complete. See Complete, Finish.]
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To complete, as time or distance.
That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
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He had accomplished half a league or more.
--Prescott.2. To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.
This that is written must yet be accomplished in me.
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To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
The armorers accomplishing the knights.
--Shak.It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it.
--Wilkins.These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman.
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To gain; to obtain. [Obs.]
--Shak.Syn: To do; perform; fulfill; realize; effect; effectuate; complete; consummate; execute; achieve; perfect; equip; furnish.
Usage: To Accomplish, Effect, Execute, Achieve, Perform. These words agree in the general idea of carrying out to some end proposed. To accomplish (to fill up to the measure of the intention) generally implies perseverance and skill; as, to accomplish a plan proposed by one's self, an object, a design, an undertaking. ``Thou shalt accomplish my desire.''
--1 Kings v. 9.He . . . expressed his desire to see a union accomplished between England and Scotland.
--Macaulay. [1913 Webster] To effect (to work out) is much like accomplish. It usually implies some degree of difficulty contended with; as, he effected or accomplished what he intended, his purpose, but little. ``What he decreed, he effected.''
--Milton.To work in close design by fraud or guile What force effected not.
--Milton. [1913 Webster] To execute (to follow out to the end, to carry out, or into effect) implies a set mode of operation; as, to execute the laws or the orders of another; to execute a work, a purpose, design, plan, project. To perform is much like to do, though less generally applied. It conveys a notion of protracted and methodical effort; as, to perform a mission, a part, a task, a work. ``Thou canst best perform that office.''
--Milton.The Saints, like stars, around his seat Perform their courses still.
--Keble. [1913 Webster] To achieve (to come to the end or arrive at one's purpose) usually implies some enterprise or undertaking of importance, difficulty, and excellence.
Accomplished \Ac*com"plished\, a.
Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact.
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Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain.
They . . . show themselves accomplished bees.
--Holland.Daughter of God and man, accomplished Eve.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "perfect as a result of training," past participle adjective from accomplish (v.). Meaning "completed" is from late 14c.
Wiktionary
1 Completed; effected; established; as, an '''accomplished''' fact 2 Complete in acquirements usually as a result of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an '''accomplished''' scholar, an '''accomplished''' villain 3 (rfv-sense) sophisticated v
(en-past of: accomplish)
WordNet
adj. highly skilled; "an accomplished pianist"; "a complete musician" [syn: complete]
successfully completed or brought to an end; "his mission accomplished he took a vacation"; "the completed project"; "the joy of a realized ambition overcame him" [syn: completed, realized, realised]
settled securely and unconditionally; "that smoking causes health problems is an accomplished fact" [syn: effected, established]
Usage examples of "accomplished".
This accomplished woman gave her hand to Odenathus, who, from a private station, raised himself to the dominion of the East.
In the full confidence that the approaching death of Constantius would leave him sole master of the Roman world, we are assured that he had arranged in his mind a long succession of future princes, and that he meditated his own retreat from public life, after he should have accomplished a glorious reign of about twenty years.
The accomplished citizens of the Greek and Roman republics, whose characters could adapt themselves to the bar, the senate, the camp, or the schools, had learned to write, to speak, and to act with the same spirit, and with equal abilities.
Crispus, the eldest son of Constantine, and the presumptive heir of the empire, is represented by impartial historians as an amiable and accomplished youth.
Zephaniah, was accomplished, in the scarcity of the beasts, the birds, and even of the fish.
The fame of Gratian, before he had accomplished the twentieth year of his age, was equal to that of the most celebrated princes.
The pious labor which had been suspended near twenty years since the death of Constantius, was vigorously resumed, and finally accomplished, by the zeal of Theodosius.
Eastern troops, he recommended to their zeal the execution of his bloody design, which might be accomplished in his absence, with less danger, perhaps, and with less reproach.
It has already been observed, that Eutropius, one of the principal eunuchs of the palace of Constantinople, succeeded the haughty minister whose ruin he had accomplished, and whose vices he soon imitated.
If it be possible to measure the interval between the philosophic writings of Cicero and the sacred legend of Theodoret, between the character of Cato and that of Simeon, we may appreciate the memorable revolution which was accomplished in the Roman empire within a period of five hundred years.
His brother, Thrasimund, was the greatest and most accomplished of the Vandal kings, whom he excelled in beauty, prudence, and magnanimity of soul.
Her tender complaints, and the weighty arguments of Leander, archbishop of Seville, accomplished his conversion and the heir of the Gothic monarchy was initiated in the Nicene faith by the solemn rites of confirmation.
He was intercepted in the career of victory, since he died in the forty-fifth year of his age: but he had already accomplished, in a reign of thirty years, the establishment of the French monarchy in Gaul.
I am impatient to pursue the final ruin of that kingdom, which was accomplished under the reign of Sigismond, the son of Gundobald.
I have now accomplished the laborious narrative of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, from the fortunate age of Trajan and the Antonines, to its total extinction in the West, about five centuries after the Christian era.