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Definition: ACCLOY

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden.[Websters]
2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: accloying, accloyed, accloys, accloyer, accloyers, accloyingly and accloyedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Accloy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Etymology:Accloy \Ac*cloy"\, transitive verb. [Old French expression encloyer, encloer, French enclouer, to drive in nail, from the Latin expression in clavus nail.]. (references)

Definition: ACCLOY

Part of SpeechDefinition
Verb1. To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden.[Websters]
2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: accloying, accloyed, accloys, accloyer, accloyers, accloyingly and accloyedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "ACCLOY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Etymology:Accloy \Ac*cloy"\, transitive verb. [Old French expression encloyer, encloer, French enclouer, to drive in nail, from the Latin expression in clavus nail.]. (references)