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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread accost #121821 01/31/2004 8:41 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 I encountered a derivative of this in a rhetoric site, in a discussion of expletives - "accostives". I searched for it,] could not find a dictionary defintion. So I looked up "accost" and got some surpises, particularly the etymology. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Definition: \Ac*cost"\ (#; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accosted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accosting}.] [F. accoster, LL. accostare to bring side by side; L. ad + costa rib, side. See {Coast}, and cf. {Accoast}.] 1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] ``So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea.'' --Fuller. 2. To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] --Shak. 3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. ``Him, Satan thus accosts.'' --Milton. \Ac*cost"\, v. i. To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] ``The shores which to the sea accost.'' --Spenser. \Ac*cost"\, n. Address; greeting. [R.] --J. Morley. I have seen "accost" used only to mean to speak to someone, especially someone not known to you. I think it is also sometimes a legal term, similary to "soliciting", as part of a charge against prostitutes, or their "johns". I had no idea that ribs were involved! An "accostive" then might be similar to a "salutation" (which doesn't alway mean wishing someone good health). Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: accost wwh #190225 03/31/2010 9:52 AM Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 3 BRIAN500 stranger BRIAN500 stranger Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 3 Nice work! It looks that you are highly expert blogger. Your post is an excellent example of why I keep coming back to read your excellent quality content that is forever updated. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: accost wwh #216976 06/09/2014 4:20 AM Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 291 Victoria, Australia Bazr enthusiast Bazr enthusiast Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 291 Victoria, Australia I found this quote from an article titled: Insomnia Framed as Analytical Neuroses "He went on to boldly hypothesize that the contagious fallout of this pan-traumatic process was a new epidemic called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which was the result of an overcharged immune system; there being just too many things to fend off in this crowded accostive world. An odd thing about the Syndrome though is that it combines two sensations in one (but that doesn't mean you're getting a bargain): everybody is tired all the time but nobody can sleep." http://www.thinicepress.com/WatsonMadore.html If you define 'accostive' in this context, then it conjures up agression in the world, which gets back to the definition for 'accost'. live in the moment Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: accost wwh #227097 05/25/2017 4:33 PM Joined: May 2017 Posts: 1 Chesapeake, Va bpatterson0032 stranger bpatterson0032 stranger Joined: May 2017 Posts: 1 Chesapeake, Va Using "Accostive" is not the same as using "Fruitation?" lol Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: accost bpatterson0032 #227098 05/25/2017 7:49 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water You are responding to a posting made three years ago. ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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