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accite

/əkˈsaɪt/

accite verb: to summon.

Verb

accite (third-person singular simple present accites, present participle acciting, simple past and past participle accited)

  1. (Early, Modern, obsolete, transitive) To summon.
    • He by the senate is accit'd home
      From weary wars against the barbarous Gothsc. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
    • Our heralds now accited all that were1598, George Chapman, verse translation of Homer's Iliad, Book 11
  2. (Early, Modern, obsolete, transitive) To cite, quote.
  3. (Early, Modern, obsolete, transitive) To excite, to induce.
    • And what accites your most worshipful thought to think so?c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...

accite meaning in Tamil

accite in Tamil

சான்று காட்டு, சான்றுக்கு அழை

Forms of accite

third-person singular presentaccites
present participleacciting
past participleaccited
pastaccited

Origin of accite

Borrowed from Medieval Latin accitō (“summon”), from Classical Latin acciō (“call forth”), formed from ad + cieō (“summon, call”). The sense “excite, induce” is likely from or reinforced by conflation with excite.

Words that rhyme with accite

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Questions about accite

What does accite mean?
Accite means to summon.
What is accite in Tamil?
Accite in Tamil is சான்று காட்டு, சான்றுக்கு அழை. See Accite meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is accite?
Accite is a verb.
How do you pronounce accite?
Accite is pronounced /əkˈsaɪt/.
What is the past tense of accite?
The past tense of accite is accited.

Words near accite in the dictionary

  1. accipitrine
  2. accipitrines
  3. acciptrid
  4. acciptrids
  5. accismus
  6. accite
  7. accited
  8. accites
  9. acciting
  10. acclaim
  11. acclaimable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: accite (page history and authors); accite (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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