accolentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

accolent ‎(複数形 accolents)

1. One who lives nearby; neighbor.
   • 1840, Carl von Rotteck, General History of the World:

     The necessity of water-communication in the narrow valley through which the Nile flows, particularly at the time of the inundations, must have probably induced the accolents of the river to have engaged early in navigation ; and the classes which had been formerly familiar with its waters by fishing, could easily form the subsequent nautical caste.

   • 1893, Lady Isabel Burton, The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton - Volume 2, ISBN 8120607287, page 530:

     Immediately about the Golconda Fort the rocks, almost wholly syenitic and granitic, supply only quartz, chalcedony, carnelian, and amethyst ; but we had heard of chance diamonds being picked up by the accolents of the Krishna river, and Sir Salar Jung, with his usual liberality, proposed laying a dák for us to Raichor.

   • 1904, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, page 158:

     He entered with a dash of gallantry, native, one might say, to the reckless spirit of the accolent.

   • 2002, Frederica De Laguna & ‎Alfred Irving Hallowell, American Anthropology, 1888-1920, ISBN 0803280084:

     The ancient accolents of Sikyatki have left no written records, for, unlike the more cultured people of Central America, they had no codices; but they have left on these old mortuary pottery objects a large body of picture-writings or paleography which reveals many instructive phases of their former culture.