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Accessorial
Accessorial Ac`ces*so"ri*al, a.
Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency,
accessorial guilt.
AccessoriesAccessory Ac*ces"so*ry, n.; pl. Accessories.
1. That which belongs to something else deemed the principal;
something additional and subordinate. ``The aspect and
accessories of a den of banditti.' --Carlyle.
2. (Law) Same as Accessary, n.
3. (Fine Arts) Anything that enters into a work of art
without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental
parts. --Elmes.
Syn: Abettor; accomplice; ally; coadjutor. See Abettor. Accessorily
Accessorily Ac*ces"so*ri*ly, adv.
In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary.
Accessoriness
Accessoriness Ac*ces"so*ri*ness, n.
The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.
AccessoryAccessory Ac*ces"so*ry, n.; pl. Accessories.
1. That which belongs to something else deemed the principal;
something additional and subordinate. ``The aspect and
accessories of a den of banditti.' --Carlyle.
2. (Law) Same as Accessary, n.
3. (Fine Arts) Anything that enters into a work of art
without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental
parts. --Elmes.
Syn: Abettor; accomplice; ally; coadjutor. See Abettor. AccessoryAccessory Ac*ces"so*ry (#; 277), a. [L. accessorius. See
Access, and cf. Accessary.]
Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way;
additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a
principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and
things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he
was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.
Note: Ash accents the antepenult; and this is not only more
regular, but preferable, on account of easiness of
pronunciation. Most orho["e]pists place the accent on
the first syllable.
Syn: Accompanying; contributory; auxiliary; subsidiary;
subservient; additional; acceding. Aggressor
Aggressor Ag*gres"sor, n. [L.: cf. F. agresseur.]
The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who
begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned
to the tameness of the sufferer. --Ames.
Air compressor 14. (Paint.)
(a) The representation or reproduction of the effect of
the atmospheric medium through which every object in
nature is viewed. --New Am. Cyc.
(b) Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of
that portrait has a good air. --Fairholt.
15. (Man.) The artificial motion or carriage of a horse.
Note: Air is much used adjectively or as the first part of a
compound term. In most cases it might be written
indifferently, as a separate limiting word, or as the
first element of the compound term, with or without the
hyphen; as, air bladder, air-bladder, or airbladder;
air cell, air-cell, or aircell; air-pump, or airpump.
Air balloon. See Balloon.
Air bath.
(a) An apparatus for the application of air to the body.
(b) An arrangement for drying substances in air of any
desired temperature.
Air castle. See Castle in the air, under Castle.
Air compressor, a machine for compressing air to be used as
a motive power.
Air crossing, a passage for air in a mine.
Air cushion, an air-tight cushion which can be inflated;
also, a device for arresting motion without shock by
confined air.
Air fountain, a contrivance for producing a jet of water by
the force of compressed air.
Air furnace, a furnace which depends on a natural draft and
not on blast.
Air line, a straight line; a bee line. Hence
Air-line, adj.; as, air-line road.
Air lock (Hydr. Engin.), an intermediate chamber between
the outer air and the compressed-air chamber of a
pneumatic caisson. --Knight.
Air port (Nav.), a scuttle or porthole in a ship to admit
air.
Air spring, a spring in which the elasticity of air is
utilized.
Air thermometer, a form of thermometer in which the
contraction and expansion of air is made to measure
changes of temperature.
Air threads, gossamer.
Air trap, a contrivance for shutting off foul air or gas
from drains, sewers, etc.; a stench trap.
Air trunk, a pipe or shaft for conducting foul or heated
air from a room.
Air valve, a valve to regulate the admission or egress of
air; esp. a valve which opens inwardly in a steam boiler
and allows air to enter.
Air way, a passage for a current of air; as the air way of
an air pump; an air way in a mine.
In the air.
(a) Prevalent without traceable origin or authority, as
rumors.
(b) Not in a fixed or stable position; unsettled.
(c) (Mil.) Unsupported and liable to be turned or taken
in flank; as, the army had its wing in the air.
To take air, to be divulged; to be made public.
To take the air, to go abroad; to walk or ride out. AssessorAssessor As*sess"or, n. [L., one who sits beside, the
assistant of a judge, fr. assid?re. See Assession. LL., one
who arranges of determines the taxes, fr. assid?re. See
Assess, v., and cf. Cessor.]
1. One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate
with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided;
as legal assessors, nautical assessors. --Mozley & W.
2. One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an
assistant and adviser; an associate in office.
Whence to his Son, The assessor of his throne, he
thus began. --Milton.
With his ignorance, his inclinations, and his fancy,
as his assessors in judgment. --I. Taylor.
3. One appointed to assess persons or property for the
purpose of taxation. --Bouvier. Assessorial
Assessorial As`ses*so"ri*al, a. [Cf. F. assessorial, fr. L.
assessor.]
Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors.
--Coxe.
Assessorship
Assessorship As*sess"or*ship, n.
The office or function of an assessor.
CessorCessor Ces"sor, n. [From Cess, v. i. Cf. Cesser.] (Law)
One who neglects, for two years, to perform the service by
which he holds lands, so that he incurs the danger of the
writ of cessavit. See Cessavit. --Cowell. CessorCessor Ces"sor, n. [From Cess, v. t.]
An assessor. [Obs.] Co-assessor
Co-assessor Co`-as*sess"or, n.
A joint assessor.
Co-lessor
Co-lessor Co`-les*sor", n.
A partner in giving a lease.
CompressorCompressor Com*press"or, n. [L.]
Anything which serves to compress; as:
(a) (Anat.) A muscle that compresses certain parts.
(b) (Surg.) An instrument for compressing an artery (esp.,
the femoral artery) or other part.
(c) An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass
plates an object to be examined with the microscope; --
called also compressorium.
(d) (Mach.) A machine for compressing gases; especially, an
air compressor. compressoriumCompressor Com*press"or, n. [L.]
Anything which serves to compress; as:
(a) (Anat.) A muscle that compresses certain parts.
(b) (Surg.) An instrument for compressing an artery (esp.,
the femoral artery) or other part.
(c) An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass
plates an object to be examined with the microscope; --
called also compressorium.
(d) (Mach.) A machine for compressing gases; especially, an
air compressor. Concessory
Concessory Con*ces"so*ry, a.
Conceding; permissive.
Confessor
Confessor Con*fess"or (?; 277), n. [OF. confessor, F.
confesseur, fr. L. & LL. confessor.]
1. One who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the
truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically,
one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures
persecution for his faith.
He who dies for religion is a martyr; he who suffers
for it is a confessor. --Latham.
Our religion which hath been sealed with the blood
of so many martyrs and confessors. --Bacon.
2. A priest who hears the confessions of others and is
authorized to grant them absolution.
Confessorship
Confessorship Con*fess"or*ship, n.
The act or state of suffering persecution for religious
faith.
Our duty to contend even to confessorship. --J. H.
Newman.
DepressorDepressor De*press"or, n.
1. One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.
2. (Anat.) A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a
part.
Depressor nerve (Physiol.), a nerve which lowers the
activity of an organ; as, the depressor nerve of the
heart. Depressor nerveDepressor De*press"or, n.
1. One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.
2. (Anat.) A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a
part.
Depressor nerve (Physiol.), a nerve which lowers the
activity of an organ; as, the depressor nerve of the
heart. Dernier ressortDernier Der`nier", a. [F., from OF. darrein, derrain. See
Darrein.]
Last; final.
Dernier ressort[F.], last resort or expedient. Dispossessor
Dispossessor Dis`pos*sess"or, n.
One who dispossesses. --Cowley.
Duressor
Duressor Du*ress"or, n. (Law)
One who subjects another to duress --Bacon.
Egressor
Egressor E*gress"or, n.
One who goes out. [R.]
Essorant
Essorant Es"so*rant, a. [F.] (Her.)
Standing, but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; --
said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon.
father confessorFather Fa"ther, n. [OE. fader, AS. f[ae]der; akin to OS.
fadar, D. vader, OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa?ir Sw. & Dan.
fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. ?????, Skr. pitr, perh. fr.
Skr. p[=a] protect. ???,???. Cf. Papa, Paternal,
Patriot, Potential, Pablum.]
1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a
generator; a male parent.
A wise son maketh a glad father. --Prov. x. 1.
2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor;
especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or
family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors.
David slept with his fathers. --1 Kings ii.
10.
Abraham, who is the father of us all. --Rom. iv. 16.
3. One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance,
affetionate care, counsel, or protection.
I was a father to the poor. --Job xxix.
16.
He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all
his house. --Gen. xiv. 8.
4. A respectful mode of address to an old man.
And Joash the king og Israel came down unto him
[Elisha], . . . and said, O my father, my father!
--2 Kings
xiii. 14.
5. A senator of ancient Rome.
6. A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a
confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest;
also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a
legislative assembly, etc.
Bless you, good father friar ! --Shak.
7. One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first
centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as
the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.
8. One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a
producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any
art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or
teacher.
The father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
--Gen. iv. 21.
Might be the father, Harry, to that thought. --Shak.
The father of good news. --Shak.
9. The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first
person in the Trinity.
Our Father, which art in heaven. --Matt. vi. 9.
Now had the almighty Father from above . . . Bent
down his eye. --Milton.
Adoptive father, one who adopts the child of another,
treating it as his own.
Apostolic father, Conscript fathers, etc. See under
Apostolic, Conscript, etc.
Father in God, a title given to bishops.
Father of lies, the Devil.
Father of the bar, the oldest practitioner at the bar.
Fathers of the city, the aldermen.
Father of the Faithful.
(a) Abraham. --Rom. iv. --Gal. iii. 6-9.
(b) Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his successors.
Father of the house, the member of a legislative body who
has had the longest continuous service.
Most Reverend Father in God, a title given to archbishops
and metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and
York.
Natural father, the father of an illegitimate child.
Putative father, one who is presumed to be the father of an
illegitimate child; the supposed father.
Spiritual father.
(a) A religious teacher or guide, esp. one instrumental in
leading a soul to God.
(b) (R. C. Ch.) A priest who hears confession in the
sacrament of penance.
The Holy Father (R. C. Ch.), the pope. GressorialGressorial Gres*so"ri*al, Gressorious Gres*so"ri*ous, a. [L.
gressus, p. p. of gradi to step, go.] (Zool.)
Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain
birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves. GressoriousGressorial Gres*so"ri*al, Gressorious Gres*so"ri*ous, a. [L.
gressus, p. p. of gradi to step, go.] (Zool.)
Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain
birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves.
Meaning of Essor from wikipedia
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Marvin Essor (born 27
August 1981) is a
retired Jamaican sprinter who
specialised in the 400 metres. He won the gold
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Essor-Préchotain is a
football club of Martinique,
based in the
northwestern town Le Prêcheur. They play in the Martinique's
first division, the Martinique...
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original on July 11, 2016.
Retrieved June 12, 2016.
Dougan 2003.
Essor-Winston,
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Societies and Education. 5 (2): 177–201.
Pierre Mollier, "Naissance et
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March 2021. (in French) http://www...
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studies he
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journalist and
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Essor du Congo. In 1958 he and a
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