accosted (not comparable)
(heraldry) Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side
accosted
simple past tense and past participle of accost
• stoccade
Source: Wiktionary
Ac*cost"ed, a. (Her.)
Definition: Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.
Ac*cost" (#; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accosted; p. pr. & vb. n. Accosting.] Etym: [F. accoster, LL. accostare to bring side by side; L. ad + costa rib, side. See Coast, and cf. Accoast.]
1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller.
2. To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] Shak.
3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.
Ac*cost", v. i.
Definition: To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] "The shores which to the sea accost." Spenser.
Ac*cost", n.
Definition: Address; greeting. [R.] J. Morley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
