accend

From Middle English accenden, from Latin accendere (“to kindle”), formed from ad- + candere (“to shine”).

• IPA^(key): /ækˈsɛnd/

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accend (third-person singular simple present accends, present participle accending, simple past and past participle accended)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To set on fire; to kindle. [15th–19th c.]

• accendible

• accensed

• “accend”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “accend”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Deccan