accinge

present singular third person accinges · participle present accinging · participle past accinged · past accinged

1. archaicreflexiveTo prepare oneself for action.

   1831, Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle, He accinged himself to the task with his usual heroism, and having finished it to his entire satisfaction, reminded his host to order in the devil.

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   Æſchylus alſo never accinged himſelf to write Tragedies, unleſs he had firſt imbibed himſelf with Wine.

   1657, Joannes Renodæus [i.e., Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, “Of Wine”, in A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: […], London: […] Jo[hn] Streater and Ja[mes] Cottrel, page 219

   1829, Thomas Love Peacock, The Misfortunes of Elphin, "Friend Seithenyn," said the abbot, when, having passed the castle gates, and solicited an audience, he was proceeding to the presence of Melvas, "this task, to which I have accinged myself is arduous, and in some degree awful;

   …but we must now accinge ourselves to other less agreeable considerations.

   1855, James John Garth Wilkinson, War, Cholera, and the Ministry of Health, p. 58

   1898, Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, The Astonishing History of Troy Town, Peter, instead of adjuring Miss Limpenny to fear no more the heat o' the sun, accinged himself to the practical difficulty.

   1943, Sir Arthur Thomas, Cambridge Lectures, J.M. Dent; E.P. Dutton, page 241, when those doors had been re-opened as sluíces to admit the mud and garbage of Restoration drama, the old man gallantly accinged himself to his old task and wrote Samson Agonistes'.