accite

Meanings

verbaccite (third-person singular simple present accites, present participle acciting, simple past and past participle accited)

present singular third person accites · participle present acciting · participle past accited · past accited

EarlyModernobsoletetransitiveTo summon.
Our heralds now accited all that were
1598, George Chapman, verse translation of Homer's Iliad, Book 11
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He by the senate is accit'd home From weary wars against the barbarous Goths
c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]
EarlyModernobsoletetransitiveTo cite, quote.
EarlyModernobsoletetransitiveTo excite, to induce.
And what accites your most worshipful thought to think so?
c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

Origin

Classical Latinacciō“call forth”
Medieval Latinaccitō“summon”
Englishaccite

Borrowed from Medieval Latin accitō (“summon”), from Classical Latin acciō (“call forth”), formed from ad + cieō (“summon, call”). The sense “excite, induce” is likely from or reinforced by conflation with excite.

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