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/əksˈɛʃən/ Listen

noun

Accession n.

1.

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.

2.

Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory. "The only accession which the Roman empire received was the province of Britain."

3.

(Law)

(a)

A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.

(b)

The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.

4.

The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.

5.

(Med.) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.

Synonyms: Increase; addition; augmentation; enlargement.

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... and his wife are persone gratissime at the Quirinale, and that her jewels are extremely fine. When he was named Senator two years ago the Press, especially the Press of the Right, saluted his nomination as strengthening the Senate by the accession to it of a person of impeccable virtue, of enlightened intellect, and of a character cast in antique moulds of noble simplicity and Spartan courage. You think, my brother, that this favourite of fortune is likely to favour your ...

— The Waters of Edera • Louise de la Rame, a.k.a. Ouida

... went on: "I have read in the stars too, that Psamtik's ruin and your own accession to the throne ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... food of every sort to his royal residence, in proportion to their abilities. On some other occasions, they carry their veneration for his very name to an extravagant and very destructive pitch. For if, on his accession to the maro, any words in their language be found to have a resemblance to it in sound, they are changed for others; and if any man be bold enough not to comply, and continue to use those words, not only ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 • Robert Kerr

... 1829 the crown of Great Britain descended from King George IV to King William IV. That reign passed away, and I have lived to see the long reign of Victoria come and go, the reign of Edward VII come and go, and the accession of King George V. Charles X ruled in France, Francis I in Austria (the reign of Francis Joseph had not yet begun), Frederick William III in Prussia, Nicholas I in Russia; while Leo XII governed the Papal States, the ...

— Fifty Years of Public Service • Shelby M. Cullom

... and convicted, and sent to undergo their punishment in the Northern jails. But there was no complete pacification of the South until the carpet-bag governments were refused the support of the Federal troops by President Hayes, on his accession to power in 1876. Then the carpet-bag regime disappeared like a house of cards. The chief carpet-baggers fled, and the government passed at once into the hands of the native whites. I do not propose to defend or explain the way in which they have since then kept it in their hands, by suppressing ...

— Handbook of Home Rule (1887) • W. E. Gladstone et al.

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