Word Meanings - ACCESSARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory. To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary. Shak. Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support

Additional info about word: ACCESSARY

Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory. To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary. Shak. Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ACCESSARY)

• Abettor
• Supporter
• advocate
• instigator
• promoter
• assistant
• companion
• accomplice
• ally
• encourager
• associate
• adviser
• confederate
• 'participes criminis'
• coadjutor
• accessary
• helper

Related words: (words related to ACCESSARY)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• INSTIGATOR
  One who instigates or incites. Burke.
• COMPANIONLESS
  Without a companion.
• ADVOCATE
  advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• ACCOMPLICESHIP
  The state of being an accomplice. Sir H. Taylor.
• ASSOCIATE
  1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with . 2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances. 3. To connect or place together in thought.
• ADVISER
  One who advises.
• COADJUTOR
  The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice. (more info) 1. One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker. Craftily outwitting her perjured coadjutor. Sheridan.
• COMPANIONABLE
  Fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable. "Each companionable guest." Mallett. "Companionable wit." Clarendon. -- Com*pan"ion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*pan"ion*a*bly, adv.
• COMPANION
  companio , fr. L. com- + panis 1. One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate;
• PROMOTER
  1. One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy. Boyle. 2. Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation,
• ASSOCIATESHIP
  The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.
• ADVISERSHIP
  The office of an adviser.
• CONFEDERATE
  Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money. (more info) join
• SUPPORTER
  A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
• HELPER
  One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish. Thou art the helper of the fatherless. Ps. x. 14. Compassion . . . oftentimes a helper of evils. Dr. H. More.
• ASSOCIATED
  Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined. Associated movements , consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. Dunglison.
• ACCOMPLICE
  An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory. "And thou, the cursed accomplice of his treason." Johnson. Note: It is followed by with or of before a person and by in (or sometimes of)
• ASSISTANT
  Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. Note: In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff. Farrow. (more info) 1. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and
• ABETTER; ABETTOR
  One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender. Note: The form abettor is the legal term and also in general use. Syn. -- Abettor, Accessory, Accomplice. These words denote different degrees of complicity in some deed or crime. An abettor
• REASSOCIATE
  To associate again; to bring again into close relatoins.