accolent

plural accolents

1. One who lives nearby; neighbor.

   He entered with a dash of gallantry, native, one might say, to the reckless spirit of the accolent.

   1904, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, page 158

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   The necessity of water-communication in the narrow valley through which the Nile flows, particularly at the time of the inundations, must have probably induced the accolents of the river to have engaged early in navigation ; and the classes which had been formerly familiar with its waters by fishing, could easily form the subsequent nautical caste.

   1840, Carl von Rotteck, General History of the World

   Immediately about the Golconda Fort the rocks, almost wholly syenitic and granitic, supply only quartz, chalcedony, carnelian, and amethyst ; but we had heard of chance diamonds being picked up by the accolents of the Krishna river, and Sir Salar Jung, with his usual liberality, proposed laying a dák for us to Raichor.

   1893, Lady Isabel Burton, The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 530

   The ancient accolents of Sikyatki have left no written records, for, unlike the more cultured people of Central America, they had no codices; but they have left on these old mortuary pottery objects a large body of picture-writings or paleography which reveals many instructive phases of their former culture.

   2002, Frederica De Laguna, Alfred Irving Hallowell, American Anthropology, 1888-1920, →ISBN

1. not comparableOccurring or living next to; neighboring; adjacent.

   The “madreporite ” is chiefly an excretory apparatus, the presumed “heart” accolent to the sand-canal and abutting on the madreporite, a gland.

   1877, Zoological Record - Volume 12, page 548

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   This area is bounded on the north by the tribes speaking Barba or Borghu, by the Takpas (Tappas) of Nufe, and by the other races accolent to the Kwara (Quorra) River: to the south is the Atlantic washing the Bight of Benin ; eastward are the various tongues of the Niger Proper, and especially the Ibo (Eboe); and westward lies the Gold Coast family of languages.

   1865, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Wit and Wisdom from West Africa, page 179

   Uses — Roots and rhizome arc stimulant annetic nausean stomachic, aromatic, expectorant, carminative antispasmodic and nervine, seditive in large doses i.e. 30 to 40 grains, it produces accolent and persistent emesis.

   1994, Agricultural Marketing - Volume 37, page 34