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noun

Access n.

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince. "I did repel his letters, and denied His access to me."

The means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land. "All access was thronged."

Admission to sexual intercourse. "During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown."

Increase by something added; addition; as, an access of territory. (In this sense accession is more generally used.) "I, from the influence of thy looks, receive Access in every virtue."

An onset, attack, or fit of disease. "The first access looked like an apoplexy."

A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury. (A Gallicism)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Access" Quotes from Famous Books

... thus became matters of history. Though no definite statement has been left us, Mr. Bryce must have first come across the story during his researches into Victorian history. He had friends in the Department, and it is quite feasible that he had ready access to many official documents that are usually beyond the reach of the ordinary public. He was not the only one in this enviable position. There were other students of the past who were moving along the same lines, and as ...

— The Lost Valley • J. M. Walsh

... him, to converse with him "on liberty and the constitution." Their conversation continued more than two hours. The Emperor, willing to attach M. Constant to his party, employed all his means of seduction; and I leave it to those Frenchmen, and those foreigners, who have had access to him, to say, whether it were possible ...

— Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I • Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon

... world makes to speak. It is the lisping of the wonderful. In this wail is manifested vaguely all that the vast dark palpitation endures, suffers, accepts, rejects. For the most part it talks nonsense; it is like an access of chronic sickness, and rather an epilepsy diffused than a force employed; we fancy that we are witnessing the descent of supreme evil into the infinite. At moments we seem to discern a reclamation of the elements, some vain effort of chaos ...

— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo

... recapitulation with a single "halt" of chapter-length[5] at the exact middle. It will readily be understood that the loss of my own library has been even more severely felt in this volume than in the earlier one, while circumstances, public and private, have made access to larger collections more difficult. But I have endeavoured to "make good" as much as possible, and grumbling or complaining supplies worse ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury

... territory east of the Cavalla River. In 1904 Great Britain asked permission to advance her troops into Liberian territory to suppress a native war threatening her interests. She occupied at this time what is known as the Kaure-Lahun section, which is very fertile and of easy access to the Sierra Leone railway. This land she never gave up; instead she offered Liberia L6000 or some poorer land for it. France after 1892 made no endeavor to delimit her boundary, and, roused by the action of Great Britain, she made great advances in the hinterland, claiming ...

— A Social History of the American Negro • Benjamin Brawley

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