accomplish

• First attested in the late 14th century.
• From Middle English acomplissen, borrowed from Old French acompliss-, present participle stem of acomplir (Modern French accomplir), from Latin ad + complere (“to fill up, to complete”).
• See also complete, finish.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈkʌm.plɪʃ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /əˈkɒm.plɪʃ/
• (General New Zealand, General Australian) IPA^(key): /əˈkɐm.plɪʃ/

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• Hyphenation: a‧ccom‧plish

accomplish (third-person singular simple present accomplishes, present participle accomplishing, simple past and past participle accomplished)

1. (transitive) To finish successfully.
2. (transitive) To complete, as time or distance.
   • 1611, King James Version, Daniel 9:2

     That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

   • (Can we date this quote by William H. Prescott?)

     He had accomplished half a league or more.

3. (transitive) To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.

   to accomplish a design, an object, a promise

   • 1611, King James Version, Luke 22:37

     This that is written must yet be accomplished in me

4. (transitive, archaic) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     The armorers accomplishing the knights

   • (Can we date this quote by John Wilkins?)

     It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it.

   • (Can we date this quote by Charles Cowden Clarke?)

     These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To gain; to obtain.
   • c. 1591, Shakespeare, William, Henry VI, Part 3, act 3, scene 2, lines 151–152:

     And more unlikely / Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns!

• do, perform, fulfill, realize, effect, effectuate, complete, consummate, execute, achieve, perfect, equip, furnish, carry out

• accomplishment
• complete
• comply

• accomplish at OneLook Dictionary Search
• accomplish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• accomplish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.