in a general sense, the act of heaping or amassing things together. Among lawyers it is used in speaking of the concurrence of several titles to the same thing, or of several circumstances to the same proof.

ACCUMULATION of Degrees; in a university, is the taking accursed of several of them together, or at shorter intervals than usual, or than is allowed by the rules of the university.

ACCURSED; something that lies under a curse, or sentence of excommunication.—In the Jewish idiom, accursed and crucified were synonymous. Among them, every one was accounted accursed who died on a tree. This serves to explain the difficult passage in Rom. ix. 3, where the apostle Paul wished himself accursed after the manner of Christ, i.e. crucified, if happily he might, by such a death, save his countrymen. The preposition \(\sigma\tau\), here made use of, is used in the same sense, 2 Tim. i. 3, where it obviously signifies after the manner of.