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The act of entering upon or attaining to a position or right
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accession
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Accession refers to the general idea of joining or adding to. It may also refer to: Accession (property law) Accession, the act of joining a treaty by a party that did not take part in its negotiations, as defined by article 15 of the Vienna Convention ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A general right of accession would have created a major inroad into the continuing bilateralism of even multilateral treaties. ▪ Aldfrith appears to have been very much on the periphery of Northumbrian dynastic life before his ...
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n. a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group); "the art collectin grew through accession" (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement something added to what you already have; ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accession \Ac*ces"sion\, n. [L. accessio, fr. accedere: cf. F. accession. See Accede .] A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from ...
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n. 1 A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's '''accession''' to a confederacy. 2 Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without. 3 (context legal English) A mode of acquiring property, by which the ...
Usage examples of accession.
Such was the state of the Roman frontiers, and such the maxims of Imperial policy, from the death of Augustus to the accession of Trajan.
The latter of those mighty streams, which rises at the distance of only thirty miles from the former, flows above thirteen hundred miles, for the most part to the south-east, collects the tribute of sixty navigable rivers, and is, at length, through six mouths, received into the Euxine, which appears scarcely equal to such an accession of waters.
Above two hundred and fifty years after the death of Trajan, the senate, in pouring out the customary acclamations on the accession of a new emperor, wished that he might surpass the felicity of Augustus, and the virtue of Trajan.
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Claudius, was enacted as a legal claim, on the accession of every new emperor.
A short time after his accession, he conferred on his son Diadumenianus, at the age of only ten years, the Imperial title, and the popular name of Antoninus.
Since the accession of Commodus, the Roman world had experienced, during the term of forty years, the successive and various vices of four tyrants.
When the rights of nature and poverty were thus secured, it seemed reasonable, that a stranger, or a distant relation, who acquired an unexpected accession of fortune, should cheerfully resign a twentieth part of it, for the benefit of the state.
On the accession of Alexander he returned to court, and was placed by that prince in a station useful to the service, and honorable to himself.
On the accession of Claudius, an old woman threw herself at his feet, and complained that a general of the late emperor had obtained an arbitrary grant of her patrimony.
Rome, in thirty books, from the fall of Nero to the accession of Nerva.
Contenting themselves, for the most part, with the milder chastisements of imprisonment, exile, or slavery in the mines, they left the unhappy victims of their justice some reason to hope, that a prosperous event, the accession, the marriage, or the triumph of an emperor, might speedily restore them, by a general pardon, to their former state.
His fortunate son, from the first moment of his accession, declaring himself the protector of the church, at length deserved the appellation of the first emperor who publicly professed and established the Christian religion.
Mount Ida, overlooked the mouth of the Hellespont, which scarcely received an accession of waters from the tribute of those immortal rivulets, the Simois and Scamander.
Although Sapor was in the thirtieth year of his long reign, he was still in the vigor of youth, as the date of his accession, by a very strange fatality, had preceded that of his birth.