Accingo, accingis, accinxi, accinctum, accíngere, Ex ad & cingo: vt, se alicui rei accingere. Virg.To girde: to prepare: to make ready to doe some thing.Operi accingere, Subaudi se.Virg.Ad rem aliquam accingi.Liu.AccingÊdum est ad eam cogitationem.Liu.Ye must thinke or muse vpon that matter.Magicas artes accingi.Virg. pro Ad magicas artes.In discrimen accingi.Liu.To prepare to daunger. Accingere, sine casu posteriore. Ter. Tute hoc intristi, tibi omne est exedendum: accingere. Prepare. Accingi pro Armari, instrui: vt Accingi armis, serro, ense, &c.Virg.To be ready armed.Animos accingere futuris, Hoc est præparare ad futura. Valer. Flac. Se aliquo homine accingere.Tacit.To strengthen and arme him selfe with another man. Accingor cum infinitiuo. Accingar dicere pugnas. Cæsaris. Virg.I will addresse my selfe to discriue, &c.Ad spem maiorem accingi.Tacit.To looke for higher aduauncement.Ira accingi.Senec.To be wood angry.Accingi telis tanquam in aciem.Tacit.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ac-cingo, nxi, nctum, 3, v. a.I.Lit., to gird to or on, to gird round or about (in prose, first after the Aug. per.; in poetry, a favorite word with Verg.): lateri ensem, Verg. A. 11, 489; and med., to gird one's self: accingitur ense, id. ib. 7, 640; cf.: quo (ense) fuit accinctus, Ov. M. 6, 551; so, ferro, Tac. A. 6, 2.—B.Transf., to arm, equip, furnish, provide: facibus pubes accingitur, Verg. A. 9, 74: gladiis accincti, Liv. 40, 13; hence: accinctus miles,
an armed soldier
, Tac. A. 11, 18: ornat Phraaten accingitque (sc. diademate imposito) paternum ad fastigium, id. ib. 6, 32: accinctus gemmis fuigentibus ensis, Val. Fl. 3, 514.II. Fig. A. In gen., to endow, provide; in medicine: magicas accingier artes,
to have recourse to
, Verg. A. 4, 493.— B. In part.: accingere se or accingi, to enter upon or undertake a thing, girded, i. e. well prepared, to prepare one's self, make one's self ready (taken from the girding of the flowing robes when in active occupation); constr. absol., with ad, in, dat., or inf.: tibi omne est exedendum, accingere,
make yourself ready
, Ter. Ph. 2, 2, 4; so id. Eun. 5, 9, 30; Lucr. 2, 1043: illi se praedae accingunt, Verg. A. 1, 210: accingi ad consulatum, Liv. 4, 2; in Tac. very often actively, to make any one ready for something: turmas peditum ad munia accingere, A. 12, 31: accingi ad ultionem, id. H. 4, 79: in audaciam, id. ib. 3, 66 al.; with inf.: accingar dicere pugnas Caesaris, Verg. G. 3, 46; so: navare operam, Tac. A. 15, 51.—b. Also in the active form, as v. neutr. = se accingere: age, anus, accinge ad molas, Pompon. ap. Non. 469, 28 (Rib. Com. Rel. p. 235): accingunt omnes operi,
all go vigorously to the work
, Verg. A. 2, 235.—Hence, ac-cinctus, a, um, P. a., well girded.A.Lit.: cujus aut familiaris habitus condecentior aut militaris accinctior, Auson. Grat. Act. 27.—B. Fig., ready, strict (opp. negligens): tam in omnia pariter intenta bonitas et accincta, Plin. Pan. 30 fin.: comitatus, id. ib. 20, 3.