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noun

Access n.

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince. "I did repel his letters, and denied His access to me."

The means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land. "All access was thronged."

Admission to sexual intercourse. "During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown."

Increase by something added; addition; as, an access of territory. (In this sense accession is more generally used.) "I, from the influence of thy looks, receive Access in every virtue."

An onset, attack, or fit of disease. "The first access looked like an apoplexy."

A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury. (A Gallicism)

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"Access" Quotes from Famous Books

... doctor's powers, I could understand that he might have extracted from West the secret of the combination by sheer force of will whilst the American was under the influence of the drug. But I could not understand how Fu-Manchu had gained access to locked chambers on the third ...

— The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer

... descent which seemed to conduct to the infernal regions. The Varangian, however obtuse he might be considered by the quick-witted Greeks, had no difficulty in comprehending that a staircase having such a gloomy appearance, and the access to which was by a portal decorated in such a melancholy style of architecture, could only lead to the dungeons of the imperial palace, the size and complicated number of which were neither the least remarkable, ...

— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott

... later, to be an inference, not an assertion. "Manetho was a learned priest of a celebrated temple, who must have had access to all the temples and royal records and other literature of Egypt, and who must have been also conversant with foreign literature to have been selected as the best man to write a complete history of his ...

— The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) • George Tyrrell

... Dr. Clarke, that the same sort of contrivance is to be found among the sepulchres at Telmessus; and, moreover, that the ancients had the art of being able to close these doors in such a manner that no one could have access to the tomb who was not acquainted with the secret method of opening them, unless by violating the abode of the dead, and forcing a passage through the stone. This has been done in several instances at the place just ...

— Palestine or the Holy Land - From the Earliest Period to the Present Time • Michael Russell

... that come over may be receiv'd in a fit Recipient, which will yet further countenance this Hypothesis: And their manner of charring Wood in great quantity comes much to the same thing, namely, an application of a great heat to the body, and preserving it from the free access of the devouring air; this may be easily learn'd from the History of Charring of Coal, most excellently describ'd and publish'd by that most accomplish'd Gentleman, Mr. John Evelin, in the 100, 101, 103, pages of his Sylva, to which I shall therefore ...

— Micrographia • Robert Hooke

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