accosted

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adjective

Supported on both sides by other charges.

UncommonScrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveaccosted (not comparable)
  1. not comparablegovernmentSupported on both sides by other charges.
    1 more example

    Capadose (Amsterdam, The Hague): Divided, 1, sinople, two small angels proper, affronté in chief, holding together a mantle gules, lined ermine, in point a beehive or, put upon a terrace proper; the beehive accosted by four bees or, and accompanied by two other bees or, brochant upon the terrace underneath the beehive; [...]

    1907, Cyrus Adler, Isidore Singer, The Jewish Encyclopedia, page 127
  2. not comparablegovernmentSide by side.

    (Gules, two ash trees accosted or, surmounted by a falcon of the same.)

    1925, National Americana Society, Americana Illustrated, page 550
    1 more example

    Barrett, impaling, A chevron between six rams accosted, counter-tripping, two, two, and two (Harman of Rendlesham and […]

    1887, Edmund Farrer, The Church Heraldry of Norfolk: pt. I., page 253
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of accost
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APA

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Chicago

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