[Remark: this dictionary entry has no valid XML/HTML content in database so a text version of this entry is shown.]: <orth>Accio</orth>, accis accíni, accitum, pen. prod. accire: vulgò dicimus. Mutere quærere, vel mittere ad quærendum. <p> <sense><trans lang="en">To call to: to send for one to come.</trans> <I>Ex loco aliquo accire.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <I>Filio doctorem accire.</I> <bibl><author>Cicer.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To sende for an instructour or master from a straunge place.</trans> <I>Accire in regnum.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To cause one to come and take the kingdome vpon him.</trans> <I>Ni voluptatern acciret.</I> <trans lang="en">Vnlesse it brought a pleasure with it.</trans> <I>Accire peregrè</I>, Vide PEREGRINVS.</foreign> <I>Accire properis literis.</I> <bibl><author>Tacit.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To send for hastily.</trans> </sense>
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ac-cĭo, īvi, ītum, 4, v. a., to call or summon, to fetch (rare but class.). I.Lit.: cujus vos tumulti causā accicrim, Att. ap. Non. 484, 7 (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 199): horriferis accibant vocibus Orcum, Lucr. 5, 996: tu invita mulieres, ego accivero pueros, Cic. Att. 5, 1, 3; 13, 48, 1; id. de Or. 3, 35, 141; Sall. J. 108; Liv. 2, 6; Tac. A. 1, 5 al. —II. Fig.: accire mortem,
to kill one's self
, Vell. 2, 38 fin.; Flor. 4, 2, 71: scientiam artemque haruspicum accibam, Tac. H. 2, 3; cf.: accitis quae usquam egregia, id. A. 3, 27; and: patrios mores funditus everti per accitam lasciviam, i. e.
borrowed
, id. ib. 14, 20 (but in Cic. Fin. 5, 31, 93, the read. acciret is very doubtful; v. Madv. a. h. l.; Klotz reads faceret; B. and K., crearet.).