accinge

English

WOTD – 21 June 2007

Etymology

From Latin accingō (“to gird”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ækˈsɪnd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

Verb

accinge (third-person singular simple present accinges, present participle accinging, simple past and past participle accinged)

1. (reflexive, archaic) To prepare oneself for action.
   • 1657, Joannes Renodæus [i.e., Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, “Of Wine”, in A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: […], London: […] Jo[hn] Streater and Ja[mes] Cottrel, page 219:

     Æſchylus alſo never accinged himſelf to write Tragedies, unleſs he had firſt imbibed himſelf with Wine.

   • 1829, Thomas Love Peacock, The Misfortunes of Elphin,

     "Friend Seithenyn," said the abbot, when, having passed the castle gates, and solicited an audience, he was proceeding to the presence of Melvas, "this task, to which I have accinged myself is arduous, and in some degree awful;

   • 1831, Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle,

     He accinged himself to the task with his usual heroism, and having finished it to his entire satisfaction, reminded his host to order in the devil.

   • 1855, James John Garth Wilkinson, War, Cholera, and the Ministry of Health, p. 58

     [...]but we must now accinge ourselves to other less agreeable considerations.

   • 1898, Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, The Astonishing History of Troy Town,

     Peter, instead of adjuring Miss Limpenny to fear no more the heat o' the sun, accinged himself to the practical difficulty.

   • 1943, Sir Arthur Thomas, Cambridge Lectures, J.M. Dent; E.P. Dutton, page 241,

     when those doors had been re-opened as sluíces to admit the mud and garbage of Restoration drama, the old man gallantly accinged himself to his old task and wrote Samson Agonistes'.

   • 1973, Leo Simpson, The Peacock Papers: A Novel‎^[1], page 94:

     "I am accinging myself to a meeting with the enemy leader, Dr. Harrison Royce, among others — to discuss peace, perhaps, although my own feeling is that the dinner will be used by both sides in the traditional fashion,..."

Translations

to prepare oneself for action

• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: xwe amade kirin

• Portuguese: preparar-se
• Russian: подгото́виться (ru) (podgotóvitʹsja), собраться (с силами) (sobratsya s silami)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /atˈt͡ʃin.d͡ʒe/
• Rhymes: -indʒe
• Hyphenation: ac‧cìn‧ge

Verb

accinge

1. third-person singular present indicative of accingere

Anagrams

• accigne, accigné

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /akˈkin.ɡe/, [äkˈkɪŋɡɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /atˈt͡ʃin.d͡ʒe/, [ätˈt͡ʃin̠ʲd͡ʒe]

Verb

accinge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of accingō