Meaning of accolent | Babel Free

Definitions

One who lives nearby; neighbor.

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Examples

“The necessity of water-communication in the narrow valley through which the Nile flows, particularly at the time of the inundations, must have⟳ probably induced the accolents of the river to have⟳ engaged early in navigation ; and the classes which had been formerly familiar with its waters by fishing, could easily form⟳ the subsequent nautical caste.”

“Immediately about the Golconda Fort the rocks, almost wholly syenitic and granitic, supply⟳ only quartz, chalcedony, carnelian, and amethyst ; but we had heard of chance diamonds being picked up by the accolents of the Krishna river, and Sir Salar Jung, with his usual liberality, proposed laying a dák for us to Raichor.”

“He entered with a dash of gallantry, native, one might say⟳, to the reckless spirit of the accolent.”

“The ancient accolents of Sikyatki have⟳ left no written records, for, unlike the more cultured people of Central America, they had no codices; but they have⟳ left on these old mortuary pottery objects a large body of picture-writings or paleography which reveals many instructive phases of their former culture.”

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