accession
IPA: ʌksˈɛʃʌn
noun
- A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
- Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
- (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).
- (law) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
- The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
- (medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
- Agreement.
- Access; admittance.
- A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.
- (Scotland) Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.
verb
- (transitive) To make a record of (additions to a collection).
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Examples of "accession" in Sentences
- The prospect of Jang's accession is a less than comforting thought.
- Brussels needs to accept that EU accession is no longer the galvanizing reform force in Ukraine.
- The particular question concerning France that was agitating Germany at the time of the accession was the state of affairs in
- “Well, but, Mrs. Baliol, suppose we settle our era: you do not call the accession of James the Sixth to the kingdom of Britain very ancient?”
- To the Gentiles, some of all nations, that should be converted to Christ, and so added to his church, which, though a spiritual accession, is often in prophecy represented by a local motion.
- Her accession was a gaudy affair, and well attended, though it might seem strange from our end of time that people would turn out peaceably to see the murderess of S'task take up the spear of royalty.
- Although his accession was the occasion of friendly letters between himself and the Government of Madras, the Nawab's rejection of the Governor's suggestion that the financial arrangements between himself and the Company should be made more favourable to the
- They derived some accession from a body of two thousand strangers, under the command of John Justiniani, a noble Genoese; a liberal donative was advanced to these auxiliaries; and a princely recompense, the Isle of Lemnos, was promised to the valor and victory of their chief.
- Accepting this as a true account of an eternal, a perdurable Existent — one which never turns to any Kind outside itself, that possesses life complete once for all, that has never received any accession, that is now receiving none and will never receive any — we have, with the statement of a perduring