accourt

English

Etymology

ac- (to) + court (woo)

Pronunciation

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Verb

accourt (third-person singular simple present accourts, present participle accourting, simple past and past participle accourted)

  1. (obsolete) To treat courteously; to court.
    • a 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, page 71:
      Whilest she her selfe thus busily did frame Seemely to entertaine her new-come guest, Newes hereof to her other sisters came, Who all this while were at their wanton rest, Accourting each her frend with lavish fest

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French

Verb

accourt

  1. third-person singular present indicative of accourir
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