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Accomplish
English
Etymology
Old English acomplissen , Old French accomplir (French accomplir ), Latin ad, + complere , "to fill up", "to complete". See complete, finish.
Pronunciation
ac-com'plish'
Verb
to accomplish (transitive; past tense and past participle: accomplished, present participle: accomplishing)
- to finish successfully
- to complete, as time or distance.
- Quotations
- That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. - Daniel 9:2
- He had accomplished half a league or more. - Prescott
- To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise
- Quotations
- This that is written must yet be accomplished in me - Luke 22:37
- To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
- Quotations
- The armorers accomplishing the knights - Shakespeare, Henry V, IV-chorus
- It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. - Wilkins
- These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. - Cowden Clarke
- (Obsolete): To gain; to obtain - Shakespeare
Synonyms
- To do; perform; fulfill; realize; effect; effectuate; complete; consummate; execute; achieve; perfect; equip; furnish
- To Accomplish, Effect, Execute, Achieve, Perform. These words agree in the general idea of carrying out to some end proposed.
- To accomplish (to fill up to the measure of the intention) generally implies perseverance and skill; as, to accomplish a plan proposed by one's self, an object, a design, an undertaking
- Quotations
- Thou shalt accomplish my desire. - 1 Kings 5:9
- He . . . expressed his desire to see a union accomplished between England and Scotland. - Macaulay
- To effect (to work out) is much like accomplish. It usually implies some degree of difficulty contended with; as, he effected or accomplished what he intended, his purpose, but little.
- Quotations
- What he decreed, he effected. - Milton
- To work in close design by fraud or guile / What force effected not. - Milton
- To execute (to follow out to the end, to carry out, or into effect) implies a set mode of operation; as, to execute the laws or the orders of another; to execute a work, a purpose, design, plan, project.
- To perform is much like to do, though less generally applied. It conveys a notion of protracted and methodical effort; as, to perform a mission, a part, a task, a work. *:Quotations
- Thou canst best perform that office. - Milton
- The Saints, like stars, around his seat / Perform their courses still. - Keble
- To achieve (to come to the end or arrive at one's purpose) usually implies some enterprise or undertaking of importance, difficulty, and excellence
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