accomplish

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English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “accomplish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

From Middle English accomplisshen, acomplissen, from Old French acompliss-, extended stem of acomplir (Modern French accomplir),[1] from Vulgar Latin *(ac)complīre, from Latin complēre (“fill up/out, complete”, whence English complete).

First attested in the late 14th century.

Pronunciation

Verb

accomplish (third-person singular simple present accomplishes, present participle accomplishing, simple past and past participle accomplished)

  1. (transitive) To finish successfully.
  2. (transitive) To complete, as time or distance.
  3. (transitive) To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.
    to accomplish a design, an object, a promise
  4. (transitive, archaic) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
    • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      The armorers accomplishing the knights
    • 1638, John Wilkins, The Discovery of a World in the Moone:
      It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it.
    • 1863, Charles Cowden Clarke, Shakespeare's Characters:
      These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To gain; to obtain.
  6. (transitive, Philippines) To fill out a form.

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References

  1. ^ “accomplisshen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2018, retrieved 20 October 2019.
  2. ^ The Chambers Dictionary, 9th Ed., 2003
  3. ^ “accomplish”, in Collins English Dictionary.
  4. ^ “accomplish”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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