ACCESSION

ACCESS'ION, noun [Latin accessio.]1. A coming to; an acceding to and joining; as a king's accession to a confederacy.2. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation; as an accession of wealth or territory.3. In law, 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 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.4. The act of arriving at a throne, an office, or dignity.5. That which is added.The only accession which the Roman Empire received, was the province of Britain.6. The invasion of a fit of a periodical disease, or fever. It differs from exacerbation. accession implies a total previous intermission, as of a fever; exacerbation implies only a previous remission or abatement of violence.

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accession. Accession, n. the act of arriving at, an addition

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Ac‐ces″sion (�), n. [[L. accessio, fr. accedere: cf. F. accession. See Accede.]] 1. 1. A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.
2. 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. Gibbon. 3. 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. Kent.
4. 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. 5. (Med.) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
Syn. — Increase; addition; augmentation; enlargement.